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Re: I don’t have time for coding challenges

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Post by djsumdog » Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 1:18 AM UTC

not_real_acct wrote: post #13

Time is money. If you make about $100 an hour, a six hour coding challenge costs you about $600. If a potential employer asked you to spend $600 to fly out and see them, on your dime, would you do it? I would do it IF I desperately needed a job. I did it back during the dot com crash; I needed a job badly and I was willing to roll the dice. In 2020? Oh hell no. There's a million companies who are hiring, and an emplo…

The only time I've bothered with coding challenges is what I was out of work, and zero of them, even some I spent hours working on, have ever lead me to a job. My current employer was fine with an example from current open source project I contribute to.

Re: I don’t have time for coding challenges

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Post by fractionalhare » Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 5:36 AM UTC

frequentnapper wrote: post #240

ergocoder wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for being charitable. I speak English well enough to fare in FAANG as senior engineer. But I always notice how a native English speaker almost always speak perfect English. They pick the right word to use and many other small things that make their English superb.

You seem to be confusing english speaking ability with the ability to communicate and articulate well. Communication is not about being able to speak english perfectly, it's firstly about listening and understanding the context of requirements. It's about being approachable enough so that the clients/stakeholders want to work with you, and clarify things with you, which in turn leads to a product which is close enoug…

I don't think they're confusing anything; I thought their use of the word, "articulate" was pretty apt.

Re: I don’t have time for coding challenges

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Post by scubbo » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:53 PM UTC

bradlys wrote: post #190

scubbo wrote: post #161

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> 20k USD per month As someone who's been in a FAANG for nearly 8 years and is making 2/5 of that...where the hell did you find that position!? EDIT: oh wait. I was comparing my take-home salary. You're probably describing gross total comp? In which case - yeah, that makes sense. Good luck!

Dude - you're not even making $180k/yr (gross) at FAANG and you've been there for 8 years? What is your position...? I earn about $9k/month (net) at $170k/yr (gross) in CA as a software engineer. So, I'm already past the 2/5 mark and I'm just at a startup that doesn't even pay well! On top of that - you should be getting stock that translates directly into a good chunk of cash - not just a salary component. (Unless N…

Check my edit! I was talking about my actual takehome salary (post-tax, not counting RSUs). Total gross comp is just north of $300k, which is pretty much in line with levels.fyi's average for that position (a little below - which tracks. I've only been promoted into that position just under a year ago, so I'm probably under-average across the whole population, despite being in the Bay Area so I'd hope to accelerate past that average soon).