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Anecdotal counterpoint: Passing FAANG-style technical interviews are the easiest thing I've done. Learning new frameworks and coding standards, surviving code
by sempron64 6y ago
Anecdotal counterpoint: Passing FAANG-style technical interviews are the easiest thing I've done.
Learning new frameworks and coding standards, surviving code review, dealing with difficult team members, dealing with ever-moving business goals, and just about every other aspect of work, including the coding, has been harder.
I admit that I have never had to invert a link list as part of my work (Graph traversals I definitely had to do, actually). But I have had to submit to arbitrary technical demands and to learn and use technical materials I did not enjoy or agree with architecturally in order to successfully complete projects. So in that, studying and practicing to pass the technical screen is similar to the job. Employers want someone who is able to (sometimes!) bite their tongue and just do the work assigned.
- carpedimebagjoe 6y agoI think the rationale at the scale of this point in FAANG is to hire as many people as possible and see who can't hack it (pun intended). In the early days, they had to be more choosy about narrowing the talent pipeline with harder interviews. Actually, I remember one IT-style interview 12-ish years ago with a certain FAANG that shall go nameless that had this sorta narcissistic/sorta dumb hiring manager, whose profile picture was a shirtless muscles pool pose, believed that a technology I inherited and was forced to use was an interview deal-breaker. And, at the time, I was at an IT department at Big Name university down the street where there were much more complicated and interesting things going on, like remotely uninfecting and patching worm-laden systems and putting together a fully-redundant/HA VMware cluster that had an FC SAN and blade servers (the thing back then).