Do most companies do this? My impression was that it's only the FANG-like companies and others centralized in SV.

If you want a specific type of company, you're gonna have to play the game.

> Do most companies do this? My impression was that it's only the FANG-like companies and others centralized in SV.

Also maybe FANG wanna-bees that are cargo culting interview practices.

I’ve interviewed at companies big and small, new and old, none in Silicon Valley, and most of them had whiteboard questions.

London companies are quite fond of this bullshit too, unfortunately.

Just out of curiosity, why do so many people want to learn Go despite it not being used that much, 7.1% from the survey?

If you come from a Python/Ruby/JavaScript background (which is a lot of people), Go is a language that is not much more complex but will run faster and be easier to distribute. I can see that being a big appeal, especially compared to something like Rust or C++ which is going to require a lot more learning to become productive.

I started with Go out of shear curiosity a few years ago. Built a few web backends with it, and a number of simple utility tools with it. I know this is a bit of a broken record line, but it's standard library and simplicity have made it something I naturally gravitate towards. Especially when I need to do something quick.

Who wants to learn Go apart from the people posting in Go threads here on HN? I have yet to meet anyone who is not in this micro-cosmos who's even heard of it.

Hype feeding hype?

On a side note, I've been using it at work and I'm actually quite liking it myself

Maybe because it is a Google language, if it was done at company XYZ no one would care.

Also because anyone jumping into the Docker/Kubernetes train eventually has to deal with Go.