How are they different from Amazon or Microsoft interviews? If you cleared one of these, what do you think clicked? Anyone got in without excessive interview prep?
I passed FB, amzn, and google without prepping. I have worked at AMZN and fb. I never did leetcode problems. They are all the same. Here is some dumb DS/algo problem, solve it. Great now do it three more times. Great, here is an offer.
Are you a competitive programmer when in school?
I studied cs. I dont know what you mean by competitive programmer
What role are we talking about? SDE? PM? BIE?
SDE