In the Silicon Valley there's this feeling of monotony - that everyone is doing the same thing. Given the price of housing you can make a pretty good guess ever

In the Silicon Valley there's this feeling of monotony - that everyone is doing the same thing. Given the price of housing you can make a pretty good guess everyone is trying to either save up to move out or pay off a house here. Everyone is either trying to come up with a way to enter the hottest trendiest startup idea or doing indie games. Most of the meetups are tech/work-related and even the non-tech meetups are flooded with male, glasses, 20-30 something engineers. It's almost like everywhere you go you can't escape the pressure of work. Personally it almost seems like the whole interview process was made to continue the whole tradition of getting high SAT or GRE scores for college, this time swapping college with the FAANG companies. We basically took all the problems with a standardized test-based education system and moved it to jobs.