I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
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I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
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Re: I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
#2I've heard multiple times of the hiring practice of "throw to garbage bin every resume without past stint at GFA" from a few of my friends.
Most of them worked companies like banks, and other big name non-tech companies.
The number of people with past experience in big dotcoms now is big enough that any mid-sized company can expect to get a few resumes from such for each position.
It's very obvious a sign of risk averse, and lazy recruiters, but what you can do? No doubt, it works for them, professionally.
It makes me think whether chasing a big dotcom name onto the resume, at any cost, and regardless of the merit of position worth it from the job security standpoint.
A dotcom name on the resume really opens you a lot of doors, you will not get yourself in otherwise. A stone cold truth.
Re: I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
#3I've heard multiple times of the hiring practice of "throw to garbage bin every resume without past stint at GFA" from a few of my friends. Most of them worked companies like banks, and other big name non-tech companies. The number of people with past experience in big dotcoms now is big enough that any mid-sized company can expect to get a few resumes from such for each position. It's very obvious a sign of risk ave…
I’m not sure if you realized this while typing it, but you may wish to reconsider that acronym.
Re: I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
#4I've heard multiple times of the hiring practice of "throw to garbage bin every resume without past stint at GFA" from a few of my friends. Most of them worked companies like banks, and other big name non-tech companies. The number of people with past experience in big dotcoms now is big enough that any mid-sized company can expect to get a few resumes from such for each position. It's very obvious a sign of risk ave…
I’m not sure if you realized this while typing it, but you may wish to reconsider that acronym.
Do we really have to fell that low on HN to obsess over the slang of weird internet boards? Edited that.
Re: I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
#5I've heard multiple times of the hiring practice of "throw to garbage bin every resume without past stint at GFA" from a few of my friends. Most of them worked companies like banks, and other big name non-tech companies. The number of people with past experience in big dotcoms now is big enough that any mid-sized company can expect to get a few resumes from such for each position. It's very obvious a sign of risk ave…
I’m not sure if you realized this while typing it, but you may wish to reconsider that acronym.
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Re: I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
#6I've heard multiple times of the hiring practice of "throw to garbage bin every resume without past stint at GFA" from a few of my friends. Most of them worked companies like banks, and other big name non-tech companies. The number of people with past experience in big dotcoms now is big enough that any mid-sized company can expect to get a few resumes from such for each position. It's very obvious a sign of risk ave…
I’m not sure if you realized this while typing it, but you may wish to reconsider that acronym.
Ok I got nothing.. I assume you are referring to GFA - what evil organisation could it be mistaken for? I could only get results for Global Furniture Alliance, Ghana Football Association, (The) Good Friday Agreement, and Gospel For Asia, and many other orgs that don't seem to be controversial enough to warrant a warning.
The tension is too much to bear, please enlighten me :)
Re: I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
#7Here I am, writing B2C applications, wondering, why after 8 years of professional programming, I never encountered the need for a "heap".
Then I looked it up, read about it, and realized that I'm using it without naming it. I know it by the name of the special class I'm using in my language.
I wonder if I would fail miserably in an interview, or if it just depends on the questions that are being asked in the domain I'm working in. Or maybe I'm just not FAANG.
Re: I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
#8While the top 20% at FANG's probably do interesting stuff I think most of the people there don't do terribly interesting stuff. If you have to game the hiring process I don't think you'll expect to be in that 20% with the interesting work?
So what is it with people wanting to work so badly for large / FANG companies? The money and perks?
Re: I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
#9I've heard multiple times of the hiring practice of "throw to garbage bin every resume without past stint at GFA" from a few of my friends. Most of them worked companies like banks, and other big name non-tech companies. The number of people with past experience in big dotcoms now is big enough that any mid-sized company can expect to get a few resumes from such for each position. It's very obvious a sign of risk ave…
One way to look at it from the FANG PoV: we don't know how good engineers they are but at least we know they can handle leetcode grind and they are most likely young (i.e. had a desperation and willingness to allocate time for leetcode preps) - so we throw them 500K total comps and hope to retrain/FANG-ify them.
I don't think many small/mid-sized shops can afford this.
Re: I got multiple FAANG offers in Europe
#10Here I am, writing B2C applications, wondering, why after 8 years of professional programming, I never encountered the need for a "heap". Then I looked it up, read about it, and realized that I'm using it without naming it. I know it by the name of the special class I'm using in my language. I wonder if I would fail miserably in an interview, or if it just depends on the questions that are being asked in the domain I…
Heap has multiple meanings. For example it could mean the datastructure typically used in priority queues.