The good news is there are plenty of shops that don&#x27;t ask these types of questions in interviews. Most of the companies you mention have a technical reputation as being elite, and as you say they can hire or interview as they please.<p>Everybody can&#x27;t work for Google, and there may be some that <i>could</i> work for Google if they were better at interviewing the way Google does (and these other companies do).<p>The author harbors some hostility towards the recruiters that have landed him these interviews. I&#x27;m a recruiter, and I too harbor some hostility towards recruiters when they behave badly.<p>The recruiters in all of these situations seem to have done the author a service, and there are no explanations of the recruiters behaving badly (other than the going silent&#x2F;no feedback scenario).<p>Telling recruiters to &quot;F<i></i>* OFF&quot; is just blaming the messenger. They didn&#x27;t design the interviews, they didn&#x27;t conduct the technical interviews being complained about, and they didn&#x27;t make the decision not to hire. They simply facilitated the process and relayed the message.<p>Blame recruiters when they behave badly. Lying about salary ranges, &#x27;bait and switch&#x27; jobs, etc. Don&#x27;t blame them when they do their jobs, just because you didn&#x27;t like the outcome.