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I’m at a FAANG-type company and have interviewed over 1k engineers at all levels, but mostly senior+. The coding questions I ask aren’t literally FizzBuzz, but do involve counting, looping, conditionals, etc. Good solutions are possible in 30m and take 30 lines of code or less. And I’m not looking for beauty or perfect efficiency, I’m looking for code that works and which the candidate can explain.

Example: given the x/y coordinates of a rectangle, can you write a function that tells me which points in array are inside or outside?

Other companies may get a different pool of candidates, so such a low-pass filter may not be necessary. But these people have resumes which describe them as capable engineers. What I usually find is they are no longer coding much, but are doing design reviews, code reviews, and attending meetings.