Isn't this all of them?

That's almost the entirety of the bay area.

For me, moving to the bay area would be a bigger problem than these kinds of interviews anyway. All interviews I have done the lasts years didn't involve code challenges.

> I refuse to work at companies that give those kinds of bullshit puzzle interviews.

Good luck finding a job then. All companies of all sizes and locations do this.

I don't apply to many jobs (I've got a tolerable one and am picky about location and other things), but the one startup tech job I applied to didn't do puzzles, they did do a screenshared coding portion, but it wasn't a puzzle kind of thing.

Um, no, they don't. I know of at least one exception - the one I work at. And I'm part of the interviews for our team, so I know how they're done.

Ah ok. I 've been interviewing bunch of places recently. All of them seem to have identical format.

I remember there a site I saw here HN that listed companies without whiteboard interviews. Can't think of the name.

Oh, no, we do whiteboard interviews. But they aren't those kind of stupid puzzles. We just have candidates write a little code, and do a little design. The "write a little code" is not one of those leetcode questions - it's really a simple problem. We just want to watch them code, and to hear what they're thinking as they do it.

This is the way to do it. How an applicant applies process to problem solving and communicates their ideas, is way more important than being able to regurgitate bubble-sort.