IIRC Google had an even higher bar in their early days: candidates had to submit a transcript showing a very high GPA and they usually hired people only from universities with elite CS programs. No way to prep for that.
They only gave it up years later when it became clear even to them it wasn't benefiting them.
> IIRC Google had an even higher bar in their early days: candidates had to submit a transcript showing a very high GPA and they usually hired people only from universities with elite CS programs.
Which sounds like a classic misconception of people with no experience outside of a fancy university echo chamber (many students and professors).
Much like Google's "how much do you remember from first-year CS 101 classes" interviews that coincidentally looked like maybe (among my theories) they were trying to make a metric that matches... (surprise!) a student with a high GPA at a fancy university.
Which is not very objective, nor very relevant. Even before the entire field shifted its basic education to help job-seekers game this company's metric.