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Have you worked at a publicly traded SV company that pays comparable to MSFT, Amazon, FB, Google or Apple with good stock growth? Nowadays there are startups t
by novok 6y ago
Have you worked at a publicly traded SV company that pays comparable to MSFT, Amazon, FB, Google or Apple with good stock growth? Nowadays there are startups that don't do algo interviews, so if you've been lucky, then you've never encountered that interview type.
Leetcode is shorthand for algo interview prep, there are many alternatives to leetcode itself.
- bradlys 6y agoNo, he's only worked at Yup in SV AFAICT. Maybe he's making $400K+/yr there but I'm somewhat skeptical. It could be his perspective on what is lucrative is very different having come from eastern europe and maybe comparing to there rather than to FAANG TC or what a soon-to-IPO company TC would be. (e.g. Instacart) I've interviewed with 100+ companies in the bay. His experience is not representative of the industry at all, IMO... 90% of companies use leetcode here. Again, I need to emphasize, I've interviewed with way more companies than most people and most of my peers interview with dozens as well and they all have to grind leetcode.
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- Swizec 6y ago> Leetcode is shorthand for algo interview prep Fair. And no, I haven't worked at a publicly traded company nor would I really want to. The optionality makes for good leverage in salary negotiation though. From what I can tell when interviewing engineers, most over-index on the algorithms. Sure we all ask an algorithms question, but it's more of a checkbox. It's the other 6 interviews that tell us way way more about the candidate. And yes, I could get more at Facebook, Google, or Apple, but then I'd have to work for FB, Goog, or App.
- novok 6y agoI think you should try to interview at a few of those places, then you'll understand why everyone focuses on the algo parts. If you fail one interview type, it's very rare that you will get an offer, and it pisses you off that you failed one interview because it was some left field random algo question that you haven't encountered before. The rest of the interview types are fairly easy to prepare for, you almost do not have to, just do a few interview loops with your lower priority companies and your mostly good. I also would reconsider not working at a pubicly traded company. I used to work in a startup for years, and I regret not switching sooner. Dan luu summarizes my thoughts on it: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/