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On the other side of the story, I interview senior developers/tech leads for a large bank and it is difficult to find people who can code their way out of a pap
by lmilcin 6y ago
On the other side of the story, I interview senior developers/tech leads for a large bank and it is difficult to find people who can code their way out of a paper bag. Lots of candidates can sweet-talk their way but then show complete lack of problem solving abilities, disorganized approach, inability to predict if their code is doing what it is supposed to do, etc.
Realize, when you go for FAANG job you are competing with a lot of younger people, frequently just out of school with fresh memory of CS topics.
There is a lot of other companies with just as good compensation where your other qualities (like maturity) might be more advantageous than in lowest echelons of FAANG.
- kingsuper20 6y ago"Realize, when you go for FAANG job you are competing with a lot of younger people, " You know, I think I can understand that simply due to the gigantic amount of in-house legacy code, toolkits, etc. It could be simply that younger people are more likely to take that Sisyphean task on, especially those on their first job. Schools aren't bad at numbing people to be part of a collective. Maybe it's same to assume that a FAANG is simply the modern equivalent of a defense contractor.