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First, working in Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Twitter is overrated more likely than not. Remember that. You don't really need to work in a big company to have
by dozzie 10y ago
First, working in Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Twitter is overrated more
likely than not. Remember that. You don't really need to work in a big company
to have fulfilling job that allows you to grow professionally and pays
decently. (Don't be greedy.)
Second, remember that interviewing is both way lane. It's not only a way for
employer to assess candidate, it's a way for a candidate to assess the
potential employer. Treat it as such.
This may be a cliché, but if all I got asked in the interview was some random
puzzles and nobody was interested in the work I had done in the past, I would
probably avoid such company. They don't seem to hire based on competency, so
I'm likely the first one with the ability to develop and deploy
a well-designed system (completely different thing from algorithms).
I don't like to struggle with making each and every step. The same stands if
they require specific education.
And the last thing, in current landscape there's plenty of jobs in IT and only
so many competent programmers, sysadmins, netadmins, or DB operators. It's the
employers who struggle with finding good candidates, not the other way around.
- atmosx 10y agoOfftopic: The 4th big is twitter? I thought it was Microsoft. I also thought that there are at least a dozen companies above twitter as far big goes in any possible sense (revenue, salaries, dev happiness, etc.).
- dozzie 10y ago> The 4th big is twitter? I thought it was Microsoft. I don't know, maybe it was Microsoft. I haven't put much thought about what is "the big four". To me, they all fall into the same bucket: big, computers, mostly US.
- pyb 10y agoThere is not a 'big 4' in tech, despite increasingly widespread use of the term.
- regulation_d 10y agoright? I was like, "hmm, I guess we're talking about accounting firms today on HN. oh wait. wat."
- j4_james 10y agoAccording to Wikipedia it's Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple [1]. But I have also seen Microsoft substituted for Apple in other references. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four
- orky56 10y agoThe top companies by market cap today are: 1. Apple 2. Alphabet 3. Microsoft 4. Berkshire Hathaway 5. Exxon Mobile 6. Amazon 7. Facebook If we're going by impact on tech, opportunities for software development, etc., it could potentially be different. http://dogsofthedow.com/largest-companies-by-market-cap.htm http://dogsofthedow.com/largest-companies-by-market-cap.htm
- tdb7893 10y agoI just did some interviews a few days ago at one of the "Big 4" companies and one thing that struck me was that they didn't seem any happier in their jobs than people other places. (actually the people I interviewed with seemed less happy but that is probably just sample size)