Yup. When you have a revolving door of people who want to work for you (often, despite your interview process), you're probably gonna be fine no matter what.
That said, folks at Google are putting a ton of effort and resources into diversity initiatives. But not at the expense of revamping the current process.
I can't think of a single reputable company that I would be interested in working at in a SDE role where they do not conduct data structure and algorithm intensive interviews. If you want to work at a brand name company as a developer today, you must be able to solve these interview questions.
My main problem with this is the fact that, at certain point, your previous experience gets somehow irrelevant.
Have you been able to solve difficult technical problem in the last 5 years, which you can explain in detail? It doesn't matter unless you can code me from scratch a binary tree.
Do you have domain experience about something the company work? Cool story, but tell me the proper API call to do this obscure operation.
I understand what's the point of that, I made technical interviews myself and I know is the game to play, but at some point it feel a little weird that you cannot leverage your previous experience and go talk the interesting, actually relevant parts, not the big O of quick sort algorithm...
After playing the game N times (and I don't think I'm particularly bad at it), it gets a little tiresome, I have to say...
I tend to agree with this sentiment. As my colleague aptly put, algorithms/data structure questions aren't really about whether a potential candidate can perform the job.
It's more about whether or not they are "one of us". I mean, if you couldn't be bothered to brush up on CS fundamentals, how can I trust you with the responsibilities that the job entails? That looks like a red flag to me.
FWIW, when I interview people, I ask actual problems I've run into, i.e. design and implement a sane concurrency system that's easy to reason about on an embedded platform with limited resources.
That said, folks at Google are putting a ton of effort and resources into diversity initiatives. But not at the expense of revamping the current process.