If you don&#x27;t like Google&#x27;s hiring process, apply somewhere else. There&#x27;s plenty of viarety among a whole host of different companies large and small. The reality is Google gets hundreds of thousands of candidates a year and has these processes in place for a reason. The interview machine at Google spans the entire company and everyone is expected to participate and give detailed feedback at each stage and &quot;rank&quot; a candidate on a 1-4 scale. You have to have some sort of normalization in place when you&#x27;re interviewing at that scale, it&#x27;s not enough to say &quot;oh, this guy invented homebrew or this guy has some cool open source project, let&#x27;s fast track him.&quot; It&#x27;s unrealistic to think that. A lot of people complain that Google spends too much time on &quot;things that don&#x27;t matter like nuances of algorithms&quot; but I&#x27;d disagree with that point. Google&#x27;s not in the business of hiring &quot;frontend devs&quot; or &quot;node js devs&quot; theyre looking to hiring well rounded software engineers that would be expected to fit in any role given to them org wide. And honestly, it&#x27;s not hard to pick up a data structure book and a &quot;software engineer interview questions&quot; book and study for a few weeks prior. You&#x27;d probably do pretty well.