That's fair but these companies also claim it is hard to find developers and more hb1's are needed. Hard to have it both ways.

I feel like there should be a course for passing these exams run by ex-FAANG employees. Perhaps a bootcamp.

1. There are plenty of websites which will let you grind away at FAANG interview questions. If you have a few weeks of time to waste on gaming this signal, you'll be coding self-balancing trees in your sleep... And have no issues with passing an interview for at least one of these firms. Depending on your current salary, this may be a much better ROI than your entire undergrad degree was.

2. Some of these firms occasionally host coaching sessions for referrals. Ask your friends if one is currently running.

3. "You don't need H1Bs, just lower your hiring bar" is a criticism that is a bit less applicable to firms with a high hiring bar, than to firms with a low hiring bar. If you are, in fact, talent-limited, an H1B will actually cost you more than a local worker. (Lawyers, immigration sponsorship, uncertainty in whether the visa will actually arrive, aren't cheap - and FAANG does not have a reputation for exploiting their H1B hires.)

> There are plenty of websites which will let you grind away at FAANG interview questions. If you have a few weeks of time to waste on gaming this signal, you'll be coding self-balancing trees in your sleep.

I'd like to practice this, any recommendations?

Leetcode, if you want to pay for UX.

If you don't want to pay, just get the list of former questions from the internet. [1]

Many of those questions may no longer be asked, but if you can ace them, you should have few problems with similar questions/variants thereof.

This is not a skillset that develops from doing your day job. You have to deliberately practice to get good at this.

[1] https://www.interviewcake.com/google-interview-questions