> You can contribute to open source, have substantial github projects, complete coding challenges, have years of experience: all of this just helps you get the

> You can contribute to open source, have substantial github projects, complete coding challenges, have years of experience: all of this just helps you get the interview. Once you are in the companies hiring pipeline everyone is put through the same process, none of the other stuff really matters after that point. This reminds me of "90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102