[VirusNewbie]

In my G SRE interview, I had to do the same rigorous Software Engineering algorithms rounds as well as show deep distributed systems knowledge in designing highly available systems.

[oceanplexian]

If by rigorous algorithms you mean, spend a month memorizing a few dozen leetcode problems then sure, I’ll agree that is sadly the state of SRE interviews at FAANG.

[VirusNewbie]

I interviewed at multiple FAANGs and not one of the questions they asked was on leetcode or hackerrank. (I searched afterwords).