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I never understood why Netflix frequently gets mentioned in the same context as Apple, Google, and Amazon. I think I hear more about it than Microsoft on here. Can anyone explain this to me? Surely they aren't the only newish company that tries to employ smart people by paying well.
Probably because of FANG association. FANG = Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google
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Not so. In some states, engineer is a protected term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer#United_State... edit I may have been mistaken and the word engineer itself may be non-protected, but the term software engineer specifically is protected in Florida: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
No, "Engineer" (as a proper noun) is protected as a synonym for "professional engineer" (common noun phrase). The common noun "engineer" is not protected in any States.
I interviewed at Netflix several years ago. It was a fairly standard SV interview. That is - whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those). Failed of course :) But they put me up in a really nice hotel, so there's that. In the years since, I've definitely lost all interest in working in SV (the fact that I've failed every single interview I've had with SV c…
If you want to learn and are willing to put in the work you can do it. It will take some number of weeks or months, but it is totally doable with reading and practice. I read and practiced for a few months before getting my job at Microsoft at age 45.
Your age isn’t the problem; I know plenty of young people that don’t want to do the work also.
I never understood why Netflix frequently gets mentioned in the same context as Apple, Google, and Amazon. I think I hear more about it than Microsoft on here. Can anyone explain this to me? Surely they aren't the only newish company that tries to employ smart people by paying well.
Probably because of FANG association. FANG = Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google
I interviewed at Netflix several years ago. It was a fairly standard SV interview. That is - whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those). Failed of course :) But they put me up in a really nice hotel, so there's that. In the years since, I've definitely lost all interest in working in SV (the fact that I've failed every single interview I've had with SV c…
> ...whiteboard questions on basic data structures and algorithms (I'm 40 and I still absolutely suck at those)... at my age it's time to accept that the window has closed on some things :) If you want to learn and are willing to put in the work you can do it. It will take some number of weeks or months, but it is totally doable with reading and practice. I read and practiced for a few months before getting my job at…
Any of the fancier in person practice stuff? I'm always curious what people find most effective.
> We didn’t have any mad geniuses building everything from scratch. But our productivity was never higher. Of course, since "productivity" in software is completely subjective, every claim of higher productivity attributable to whatever cause is by definition correct.
Is it totally subjective? Can't you measure feature delivery velocity? I can look at delivered velocity for engineers and see trends over 10+ sprints.
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> Good developers are the ones that create code that resists the slide from a 10x code-base to a 0.1x code-base That may be true of good developers. On the other hand, in my experience "10x developers" are the ones causing the slide.
> 10x developers If they're causing code quality slide, they're not a "10x developer."
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I dunno. I've had pretty good luck breaking into SF companies, and I didn't get started until 40. But I'm a glutton for punishment and went through a lot of grinding to make that happen. I'd say it depends on how flexible your mind is, and how bad you want to put in the work to get it.
> becomes extremely hard > went through a lot of grinding to make that happen Aren't we in agreement?
The comment that replied to you said you can study and pass without your age being held against you.
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No, "Engineer" (as a proper noun) is protected as a synonym for "professional engineer" (common noun phrase). The common noun "engineer" is not protected in any States.
As I mentioned in my edit, software engineer is protected in Florida.
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I dunno. I've had pretty good luck breaking into SF companies, and I didn't get started until 40. But I'm a glutton for punishment and went through a lot of grinding to make that happen. I'd say it depends on how flexible your mind is, and how bad you want to put in the work to get it.
> becomes extremely hard > went through a lot of grinding to make that happen Aren't we in agreement?