Had a FAANG interview where the interviewer said I was wrong... about a topic I was teaching the Graduate course on that topic at that very semester. Realized I needed to dumb down my answer to freshmen undergrad level intro class level, rewording the exact same answer, and he congratulated me for "fixing my mistakes".

I can almost guarantee you the problem is the FAANG interview, not you.

So many devs are just aiming for that FAANG job, no thanks. There is a whole world of awesome and interesting companies that are not FAANG.

34 myself, and same. It’s kind of anxiety-provoking because if I have to find something else, I’m scared I won’t be able to.