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You don’t have to, but you won’t get a job at FAANG.
by dillonmckay 7y ago
You don’t have to, but you won’t get a job at FAANG.
- Waterluvian 7y agoYep that's probably true. But boy oh boy is FAANG overrated in my opinion. To be fair, some people might like the opportunity to double their salary by working twice as much. But I'm not convinced any of them are making the right choice of what to do with their time here.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoIt’s closer to double for about the same amount of work if my friends back home are any indication (and I work for the frugal FANG)
- Waterluvian 7y agoSo if you're talking 200-300k for 35 hours a week of fully remote low stress work then yeah, I'm all mixed up on this topic.
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- akhilcacharya 7y agoWell not remote, but pay and hours very reasonable at G specifically. I do a little more for a bit less but I’m satisfied :)
- scarface74 7y agoI know that Amazon doesn’t require their AWS Solutions Architects to do leetCode. I doubt that Microsoft or Google do.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoMy first interview in my last amazon loop was a canonical popular leetcode question (Alien Dictionary). The rest weren’t, however. I surely got points off in my interview for pointing out how practiced Alien Dictionary was for anyone studying for an interview.
- throwaway55554 7y agoI hate that problem. I would have walked. I get ticked off every time I work some leetcode because that's what we're being reduced to and problems like Alien Dictionary are the ones that really set me off. It's just stupid. Insultingly so.
- dillonmckay 7y agoWhat are other popular canonical coding questions/puzzles?
- ed312 7y agoFrom my experience, "Solutions Architects" are closer to "Sales Engineering" vs pure software roles. YMMV.
- scarface74 7y agoExactly. Pre-sales, post sales, and proofs of concepts. Technical Account Managers seem to lean more on the software/proof of concepts side. Third party AWS partners can have consultants who are more software architects. But SAs are all over the map between pure sales => infrastructure (lift and shifters) => "cloud native" architects/developers.
- LandR 7y agoI'm ok with this.
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