throwaway98az8 | 4 years ago | on: Don’t do interviews, do discussions
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throwaway98az8 | 4 years ago | on: Don’t do interviews, do discussions
Typical FANG employee... Hates whiteboard interviews until they get into FANG, then thinks that anyone outside of FANG is actually delusional about their skills and must whiteboard to prove themselves worthy of handling the incredibly challenging world which is FANG-engineering.
More likely that you've drank the kool aid that you are somehow special and smarter for working at a FANG...
throwaway98az8 | 5 years ago | on: How do you handle your Aging in IT?
Any advice for how you bootstrapped this and started to get clients? I find that the hardest part about taking the leap and leaving a full-time role.
throwaway98az8 | 5 years ago | on: Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
How is serving nice meals for lunch "infantilizing" people? I'm simply stating that this is a concrete benefit of employment at these companies. If they choose to move away from providing it, then they should adjust salaries to reflect that, otherwise candidates will join firms that do.
throwaway98az8 | 5 years ago | on: Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
Context: I was in the interview pipeline before/when this announced, so I've gotten some additional clarification on the logistics.
I think this is strictly worse than providing employees with the option of where to work (office/remote/some WFH). Something missing in this announcement is that you still need to live in one of the main cities with offices (SF, Seattle, Austin, Dublin) in order to receive full pay. Moving anywhere gets your pay adjusted to the "local market".
So to avoid a pay-cut you need to stay in an overpriced city, but you don't have a nice office with meals/snacks/nice desk setup that you can go to.
throwaway98az8 | 5 years ago | on: Simultaneous Shortage and Oversupply (2019)
Having had applied to and even interviewed at some of the companies/jobs listed in the blog post, I will provide an alternative explanation:
These roles are just like many others in the field, companies are supposedly desperate to fill them, but set unrealistically high expectations for the hiring bar so the role is never filled.
Context: 6 years professional experience, open to moving anywhere in US, experience at two SV unicorns, fine taking a reasonable pay cut to work on these things, still rejected or never heard back from every job of this type I've applied to/interviewed for.
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OP might be smarter than me, who knows. I don't really care, I feel pretty good about my intelligence level even though I know there are plenty of folks smarter than me out there.
What I am is annoyed at the elitism that OP shows. I work at a FANG, have worked at a couple SV unicorns too. There is plenty of work happening here that is not as challenging as OP makes it out to be. I've seen a lot of people with the attitude OP has and I think it makes for a toxic and unwelcoming environment.
As someone who has used complex algorithms research in my work, I agree white boarding has some carryover to some FANG work. But my experience is that there is vastly more boring CRUD work to do and you must generally fight with others to get the interesting/challenging algorithmics work. No need to filter out a ton of qualified people because they can't perform a tiny fraction of the work happening here.