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I guess it depends on your previous experience. If you're familiar with actually building a software company, know good people to employ and know a problem that

I guess it depends on your previous experience. If you're familiar with actually building a software company, know good people to employ and know a problem that needs solving, it probably is easier to go that route than having to learn the whole interviewing-scam thing that is happening today, in order to just be employed. Helps that building a company gives you real experience as well while prepping for interview just gives you that, preparation for the interview, while the real job is different than the interview.

joshuamorton 6y ago
The companies that FAANG acquire are usually mid sized, 50+ employees. Getting to that size, in a particular industry that will be of acquisition interested is not going to be easier than getting hired. Might get you hired at a higher level though, but yeah delusional to think it would be easier.
tjs8rj 6y ago
If leetcoding and going from 0 to acquired by Facebook in a year were just as hard, we’d all be rich. Even if it was only an order of magnitude difference, the expected value of starting that startup would be so much higher. They aren’t even in the same ballpark
- Retric 6y ago
  I think it really depends on your background. For people with a questionable job history, poor credentials, modest intelligence, a speech impediment, and a criminal background self funding to Raman increases in difficulty less than working directly for Facebook. However, ridding the VC train has a lot of the same dependencies as working for Facebook, but is vastly more difficult. The same is true of networking and friends and family financing. I might look at scraping together a ~200k seed round as trivial, but that’s not true for everyone. On the other hand if 5 of your collage friends are working a FANG companies that’s also a huge leg up.
  - tjs8rj 6y ago
    We’re not talking about bootstrapping for a year, op said selling to Facebook in a year. To pull that off means awesome traction or clubhouse level hype or deep serial founder connections, or corruption at high levels. All of these are much more difficult to pull off, often requiring years, than simply hitting the books for a few months

joshuamorton 6y ago

The companies that FAANG acquire are usually mid sized, 50+ employees. Getting to that size, in a particular industry that will be of acquisition interested is not going to be easier than getting hired. Might get you hired at a higher level though, but yeah delusional to think it would be easier.

tjs8rj 6y ago

If leetcoding and going from 0 to acquired by Facebook in a year were just as hard, we’d all be rich. Even if it was only an order of magnitude difference, the expected value of starting that startup would be so much higher. They aren’t even in the same ballpark

Retric 6y ago
I think it really depends on your background. For people with a questionable job history, poor credentials, modest intelligence, a speech impediment, and a criminal background self funding to Raman increases in difficulty less than working directly for Facebook. However, ridding the VC train has a lot of the same dependencies as working for Facebook, but is vastly more difficult. The same is true of networking and friends and family financing. I might look at scraping together a ~200k seed round as trivial, but that’s not true for everyone. On the other hand if 5 of your collage friends are working a FANG companies that’s also a huge leg up.
- tjs8rj 6y ago
  We’re not talking about bootstrapping for a year, op said selling to Facebook in a year. To pull that off means awesome traction or clubhouse level hype or deep serial founder connections, or corruption at high levels. All of these are much more difficult to pull off, often requiring years, than simply hitting the books for a few months