> Does anyone have any similar stories of old mediocre developers getting to faang? Is there a recommended pathway for people in this situation? Why do you wan

> Does anyone have any similar stories of old mediocre developers getting to faang? Is there a recommended pathway for people in this situation? Why do you want to be mediocre and successful at the same time? This is really, really difficult. A pathway for that would mean to scam, con or hack the admission process/interviewers. And to hack Google/Facebook you need to be smarter than the current engineers. Which would get you admitted.