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You think netflix is a moral compromise? What about the US government?
Netflix was pretty neutral until about 4 years ago. Their leadership jumped the shark and the entire platform has been trash since. Side personal note: Fuck you guys for getting rid of stargate.
I'm planning to interview for a large company the coming weeks, and I'm truly disappointed that I struggle even on the Easy level. I guess I never needed to solve such issues in my previous jobs (backend, SRE).
Even though I have 10 years of experience writing, shipping, maintaining and operating production systems for 10k RPS scale and also having OSS contributions in some very popular projects, I'm still intimidated by the LeetCode-style problems. I'm planning to interview for a large company the coming weeks, and I'm truly disappointed that I struggle even on the Easy level. I guess I never needed to solve such issues in…
"A common question I get is about work/life balance. And I view it a little different too now. At Facebook I could get by barely working a few hours a day. But the job was so unsatisfying that it spilled the frustration in the “life” part" This is the golden piece for me. I too recently left a big corp to a smaller place, expecting to sacrifice WLB and my free time - yet I ended up feeling happier and spending less t…
> At Facebook I could get by barely working a few hours a day. But the job was so unsatisfying This is a little too first world. if the work were too sparse and wants more work, why not join interview loops or take classes/training, attend talks? Does Meta not have those options? The frustration feels almost artificial, if one does not want to get more work, then maybe just go boating or mountain biking. Watch some s…
I have one life, I need to have money to live but thats easy, actually having a positive impact is a reason to do something for someone else.
I dont necessarily apply but its its all i am thinking about untill I have value to add again: what am I doing here?
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>were hit with antitrust litigation starting around 2010 because they were all involved in colluding to reduce the ability of devs to switch jobs I didn't know that, really interesting detail. >no one wants to admit they don't know what they are doing. Interesting perspective, though I don't know about the vodoo part. They seem to be taking the matter quite seriously, at least google does. Take the matter of competit…
Oh, definitely. I'm sure they do take it seriously. I just don't believe taking it seriously to be the same as actually producing results. Managers still take OKRs/KPIs seriously. There are still people that believe in the healing power of Agile. If any of these companies knew what they were doing then they wouldn't require multiple interview rounds. I expect the correlation between one's ability to perform at Google…
But I guess, that this is all speculation..
Even though I have 10 years of experience writing, shipping, maintaining and operating production systems for 10k RPS scale and also having OSS contributions in some very popular projects, I'm still intimidated by the LeetCode-style problems. I'm planning to interview for a large company the coming weeks, and I'm truly disappointed that I struggle even on the Easy level. I guess I never needed to solve such issues in…
Don't worry. 90% of the interview processes are broken. Don't take it too personally :)
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I’ve heard plenty of horror stories about someone being hired that couldn’t write simple code. It’s easy to study leet code, and it’s relevant because it shows the interviewer you can write code. I’ve had non-leet code interviews, like write some feature in 60minutes. It was fine. It tests code and knowledge as opposed to just algorithms and tricks. I dunno I’ve always felt that the people who can’t leet code are the…
> It’s easy to study leet code, and it’s relevant because it shows the interviewer you can write code. I have a million things I want to learn about. If a potential employer would rather I spend time on what amounts to trivia, then great, I don’t want to work there. > I’ve had non-leet code interviews, like write some feature in 60minutes. This is also a problem because it’s impossible to understand the constraints,…
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It’s one thing to state your values and non-negotiables, and it’s another to seem arrogant and sanctimonious about it. To me, your comment appears to be firmly in the latter. If that truly is the case, hope you figure out what you are resentful about because, unbeknownst to you, it is alienating those who see such language. I agree with your values but I would still think twice about working with you based on the com…
> to seem arrogant and sanctimonious about it. I’m firm, firm in my belief that the people who have chosen of their own free will to work for FAANG have made moral compromises that disqualify them from my employment. I don’t get how this is “sanctimonious”. These people have made some absolutely terrible life choices, and alienation is a part of the consequence package that comes with those life choices.
"everyday life it’s still very prestigious place to be working at. Getting a mortgage or a car loan is easy, saying you work for Facebook gets you on the fast line." I once felt that way but after leaving FAANG years later, I realized how snobby something like this would sound.
> a car loan Is it normal for a software engineer (or anybody who could afford it after saving for a few months) to get a loan to buy a car in the US? Is it worth it financially? Or is it to improve credit scores, maybe?