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Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work

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Post by WYepQ4dNnG » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 5:31 PM UTC

hiq wrote: post #161

WYepQ4dNnG wrote: post #55

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My strategy is simple: I do interview practice by simply interviewing with companies that I am not really interested in joining. That allows me to practice not only the technical interview but also all other steps involved. Last time I interviewed, I did 7 of these interviews, targeting: startups, pre-ipo, mid public companies, 2 of the FAANG I would never work for ... I did that while prepping for interviewing at th…

Can you expand on your FAANG preferences?

Suffice to say I'd never join Meta. I don't use their platform, I don't like what they do, and most important I don't like their tech bro company culture.

Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work

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Post by emerged » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 6:12 PM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #224

kieselguhr_kid wrote: post #184

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Fragile FAANG-ers

Well I'm not a FAANG-er and I didn't downvote, but it seems weird that the ones at FAANG would be so obviously less skilled than the others, It would be believable that they were the same skill level but otherwise seems weird. Unless of course the weighting of his groups is off somehow, which should have been noted. Actually it doesn't seem like the statement was very informative.

I mean. It was a statement of fact, you can believe it or not. The engineers I know who went into FAANG (half dozen different people) are literally the worst engineers I worked with.

They have no scruples and play politics.

Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work

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Post by mbrodersen » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 12:57 AM UTC

I have worked with a few developers who went on to work for FAANG companies. They were OK but not the best I have worked with. They did however have an inflated opinion of their own skills. Perhaps that helps when interviewing?

Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work

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Post by lhnz » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 4:17 PM UTC

jldugger wrote: post #82

lhnz wrote: post #33

It's interesting that Google was not higher for communication. Aren't they known as the big tech company with the "writing culture"? I guess 'communication' means something different here.

> Aren't they known as the big tech company with the "writing culture"? Are they? I thought that was Amazon.

Oh interesting. I'd heard about Google's code review culture and thought there was lots of other written content, too.