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Are you sure you can't reach out to your network and get in the side-door of a company without leetcoding? If you have advocates on the inside sometimes you can

Are you sure you can't reach out to your network and get in the side-door of a company without leetcoding? If you have advocates on the inside sometimes you can skip all the rigamarole.

ldjkfkdsjnv 5y ago
Not quite, there are roles I could get. But I am mostly referring to FAANG/Some unicorns in terms of matching comp. None of which will give me the benefit of the doubt, despite my experience. But again, I am quite burned out, so in some ways its in their favor to put me through a rigorous interview process. Leetcode often filters out burned out employees
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- eropple 5y ago
  > But I am mostly referring to FAANG/Some unicorns in terms of matching comp. None of which will give me the benefit of the doubt, despite my experience. Then do something else! There is a world beyond unicorns and FAANG companies.
  - yupper32 5y ago
    How much money is that worth to you?
    - eropple 5y ago
      I own a house with a very comfortable mortgage payment less than a twenty minute drive or a 40 minute train ride from downtown Boston. I work from home on interesting problems and I have a great dog. So not a whole lot. There are better ways to live than sucking down cash to be miserable. You can't take it with you.
  - granshaw 5y ago
    Not if you want that level of comp (Sorry if you were already aware and are saying more along the lines of "money isn't everything", but I wanted to make the point)
  - tnorthcutt 5y ago
    Agreed. If you're burned out, consider moving to a lower cost of living area (assuming SFBA or similar is your current situation) and take a lower paying job. The stress of FAANG/startupville doesn't make sense for a lot of people.
    - wonderwonder 5y ago
      This is good advice for a lot of people but a lot of us have a family and cant get passed the idea of uprooting them for ourselves. I am absolutely fried but I cant pull my kids out of school and my wife away from her family. So I just trudge on to the bitter end.

Are you sure you can't reach out to your network and get in the side-door of a company without leetcoding? If you have advocates on the inside sometimes you can skip all the rigamarole.

ldjkfkdsjnv 5y ago

Not quite, there are roles I could get. But I am mostly referring to FAANG/Some unicorns in terms of matching comp. None of which will give me the benefit of the doubt, despite my experience. But again, I am quite burned out, so in some ways its in their favor to put me through a rigorous interview process. Leetcode often filters out burned out employees

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eropple 5y ago
> But I am mostly referring to FAANG/Some unicorns in terms of matching comp. None of which will give me the benefit of the doubt, despite my experience. Then do something else! There is a world beyond unicorns and FAANG companies.
- yupper32 5y ago
  How much money is that worth to you?
  - eropple 5y ago
    I own a house with a very comfortable mortgage payment less than a twenty minute drive or a 40 minute train ride from downtown Boston. I work from home on interesting problems and I have a great dog. So not a whole lot. There are better ways to live than sucking down cash to be miserable. You can't take it with you.
- granshaw 5y ago
  Not if you want that level of comp (Sorry if you were already aware and are saying more along the lines of "money isn't everything", but I wanted to make the point)
- tnorthcutt 5y ago
  Agreed. If you're burned out, consider moving to a lower cost of living area (assuming SFBA or similar is your current situation) and take a lower paying job. The stress of FAANG/startupville doesn't make sense for a lot of people.
  - wonderwonder 5y ago
    This is good advice for a lot of people but a lot of us have a family and cant get passed the idea of uprooting them for ourselves. I am absolutely fried but I cant pull my kids out of school and my wife away from her family. So I just trudge on to the bitter end.