>Ever since 'Cracking the coding interview' was released, every company's interview process has become like Google's and Google didn't have a particularly great interview process to start with

This is a gross over exaggeration.

I'd say about 50-60% of companies do a programming test.

Others are happy to look at your open source code and discuss it with you. They might pepper you with some programming language trivia questions.

That has been my experience.