>You could do the same thing working at google, but instead of making $108k USD/yr, you would make +$250k/yr USD. Not everyone can just waltz into Google. For

>You could do the same thing working at google, but instead of making $108k USD/yr, you would make +$250k/yr USD. Not everyone can just waltz into Google. For starters, there are tens of millions of developers worldwide and only tens of thousands of total Google jobs across all roles. Google, Amazon, etc. all have a well known high false positive rejection rate, so even for developers who are qualified and would do well at these companies getting in still requires a good bit of luck. Their interviews are not bias free either, so a subset of good developers are facing a process biased against them. Those with families, for instance, probably have little time for hackathons that I'm sure help with in person or phone screen coding exercises.