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It's an arms race. Big name employers only wanted the top 1% of candidates. A bunch of people wanted to get into the top 1% and figured out a way (leetcode, ctc
by bradlys 6y ago
It's an arms race. Big name employers only wanted the top 1% of candidates. A bunch of people wanted to get into the top 1% and figured out a way (leetcode, ctci, etc.). And then employers kept only wanting the top 1% - so they just raised the bar higher and higher.
Now we're at the scale where if you haven't done a minimum of 200 problems before any interview round - you're not likely getting an offer from FAANG/etc.
- triyambakam 6y agoCtci?
- hinkley 6y agoI wonder if anyone at FAANG has figured out that they collectively employ over 1% of the developers in the US. What they are trying to do is not just practically impossible, it is literally impossible.
- bradlys 6y agoConsidering that a significant (half or more?) portion of their engineers are from other countries... is it not still the 1%?