>Second: Is it really fair to have just one or two developers evaluate you? When I first was an interviewer, I liked everybody! I would have hired them all. So getting multiple data points matters. Best to have at least a couple dev interviews.
Except FAANG interviews require excellence on almost all of the interviews, so the extra people only represent further opportunities to be denied.
Exactly. Many of these interviews it only takes one person to feel 'eh' or negative on the person to tank the candidate, so the more people you interview that person, the more likely you're going to have that impression on one of those people (especially if it's an all day series of interviews, you'll probably start to get mentally exhausted near the end of it), and the more likely any given candidate will be rejected.
It's the same principle behind using large numbers of disks in certain RAID configurations. If the pool can't tolerate a disk or two failing, adding more disks increases the chances of one or more failures occurring and tanking the pool.
Except FAANG interviews require excellence on almost all of the interviews, so the extra people only represent further opportunities to be denied.