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a) that's survivorship bias - for every one who "worked" on those frameworks and got somewhere because of it, there are thousands who wasted their time. I would
by notyourday 9y ago
a) that's survivorship bias - for every one who "worked" on those frameworks and got somewhere because of it, there are thousands who wasted their time. I would go as far as to say that those who worked on those frameworks and got hired would have been hired without that.
> If you have companies reaching out to you with potential job offers frequently, you can use that when negotiating salary when applying for a new job or to negotiate a raise at your current job
If you are one of those people who is a target of companies rather than recruiters outreach, then you do not care about frameworks. Hint: these are people who don't have interviews. They go for lunch. Or dinner.
> It's the same principle as the guy who interviewed at Google, Facebook, Airbnb & dozen other companies and then used several offers he got to negotiate and he ended up with ridiculously good package for software engineer.
That's an imaginary guy.
- 0x445442 9y agoYou're right on track in this thread. My guess is Rob Pike was not answering data structure and algorithm questions on a white board when he got hired at Google.