What's even more interesting is the new meta-game around interviews.<p>Algorithmic questions started with Microsoft, who wanted to make sure engineering hires could... program!<p>The point was to make it as language agnostic as possible and friendly to college hires (since everyone who did a serious CS program did algorithms, there was a common vocabulary). You weren't even meant to study intensively for these, just brush up on your algo class.<p>But now I keep seeing guides on the internet about "hacking the coding interview" and special "prep material" pushed by influencers (???) on YouTube that claim to be ex FAANG (hard to check). Apparently there's even classes taught at tier two colleges (Waterlo if I recall) that specifically focus on algorithm interviews. Not algorithms, just algorithms interviews. They get interview questions from students and the class is just memorizing as many of them as possible.