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Sorry, this won't work. 1. Too arduous for the FAANG company 2. If the end result is $250k/year salary, then absolutely insane amount of people will stick it un
by christiansakai 7y ago
Sorry, this won't work.
1. Too arduous for the FAANG company
2. If the end result is $250k/year salary, then absolutely insane amount of people will stick it until the end. I know I do. Heck, I will live at FAANG office 24/7/365 if I need to, and I know a lot of people will do it. See the current state of Leetcode forum and reddit CS career questions to get the feel of the type A people who flock there. It is go big or go home. Bleed and get up again.
Hypothetical scenario, tell the startups/VCs to pay more for software engineers, just a little bit lower than FAANG, then two things will happen:
1. Either FAANG will even increase their salary even more to attract type A types
2. A huge number of applicants of varying quality will flock to CS as an industry lowering the overall quality, forcing companies to do hard DS&A questions to filter applicants.
- peter_d_sherman 7y agoI agree, it probably wouldn't work for the FAANG companies... I posted what I said as a note to my future self, if/when I run a software engineering company... if/when that happens, then that's how I'm going to handle hiring...
- christiansakai 7y agoYou'll suck your own resource doing this, with no end goal in sight, or not even better end goal rather than DS&A interviews. And in the end, you will concede and search for a few DS&A interview questions, tell the candidate(s) to solve it, and evaluate them, and call it a day.
- wanderer2323 7y agoOut of curiousity, why do you think that your intake from the `minimal salary barely enough for living expenses` job posting will contain any talented candidates at all?
- TuringNYC 7y agoThey will attract desperate candidates, which some companies often want. Then they carry the person on a leash. This will differentiate companies looking for true partnership with an engineer vs those who need hamsters in a wheel.
- Falkon1313 7y ago1) Offer the lowest compensation to attract the worst employees. 2) Pay them to spend several weeks taking tests. 3) ? 4) Profit I'm curious what step 3 is? Also you say that "The purists don't care about money as much as working with the right people." but you're intentionally selecting for the wrong people, so is this intended to avoid purists?
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