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Social signaling is too important not to engage in "nonsense" on occasion. Geeks resist this, thinking that their special flavor of technical knowledge, which
by lisper 6y ago
Social signaling is too important not to engage in "nonsense" on occasion. Geeks resist this, thinking that their special flavor of technical knowledge, which they alone possess, should transcend a million years of evolution that produced monkeysphere dynamics. The situation is laden with all manner of irony.
- sneak 6y agoThis is a straw man: choosing not to work for fools is not opting out of social signaling. If you know how to program, you have lots of options.
- lisper 6y ago> choosing not to work for fools is not opting out of social signaling. That depends entirely on how you choose to define "fools".
- filoleg 6y agoAgreed. I am quite ok with being a "fool", if it means working for a FAANG tier company and collecting FAANG tier compensation. I am not going to disadvantage myself by refusing to participate in this on some questionable principle. While I agree that Leetcode-style interviews are not the overall best, I am yet to come up with an alternative that addresses all those issues without introducing massive new ones. So it is a compromise. And as long as this compromise stands, I am fully intending on getting the most out of it.