If you don't like Google's hiring process, apply somewhere else. There'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 "rank" a candidate on a 1-4 scale. You have to have some sort of normalization in place when you're interviewing at that scale, it's not enough to say "oh, this guy invented homebrew or this guy has some cool open source project, let's fast track him." It's unrealistic to think that. A lot of people complain that Google spends too much time on "things that don't matter like nuances of algorithms" but I'd disagree with that point. Google's not in the business of hiring "frontend devs" or "node js devs" 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's not hard to pick up a data structure book and a "software engineer interview questions" book and study for a few weeks prior. You'd probably do pretty well.