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Typical FANG employee... Hates whiteboard interviews until they get into FANG, then thinks that anyone outside of FANG is actually delusional about their skills

Typical FANG employee... Hates whiteboard interviews until they get into FANG, then thinks that anyone outside of FANG is actually delusional about their skills and must whiteboard to prove themselves worthy of handling the incredibly challenging world which is FANG-engineering. More likely that you've drank the kool aid that you are somehow special and smarter for working at a FANG...

hfjkdh790sn 5y ago
> More likely that you've drank the kool aid that you are somehow special and smarter for working at a FANG... The USD $250K/year compensation, 0 YOE, fresh bachelor grad kool aid. Sure. Sorry, but some people in society are strictly inferior to others — defined by an age-adjusted combination of family, friends, health, finances, and happiness, both current and future trajectory.
- badcomment111 5y ago
  Ranking people like this is sickening.
- cema 5y ago
  "Some people are ... inferior to others." Don't you want to qualify your statement a little?
throwaway67834 5y ago
Why are you so mad that someone allegedly considers themselves smarter than you?
wiseowise 5y ago
Why are you so upset that somebody considers themselves smarter than you? Serious question.
- slingnow 5y ago
  Interesting that you decided that the OP: 1. Is upset 2. Interpreted the parent comment as being smarter than OP Serious question: where did you infer these things from?
  - wiseowise 5y ago
    > Is upset Nobody is going to write such a rant if they're not upset. >> Typical FANG employee... Hates whiteboard interviews until they get into FANG, then thinks that anyone outside of FANG is actually delusional about their skills and must whiteboard to prove themselves worthy of handling the incredibly challenging world which is FANG- engineering. > Interpreted the parent comment as being smarter than OP >> More likely that you've drank the kool aid that you are somehow special and smarter for working at a FANG... ???
- throwaway98az8 5y ago
  Nope, not upset. Just trying to make OP aware of their contradictory behavior. OP might be smarter than me, who knows. I don't really care, I feel pretty good about my intelligence level even though I know there are plenty of folks smarter than me out there. What I am is annoyed at the elitism that OP shows. I work at a FANG, have worked at a couple SV unicorns too. There is plenty of work happening here that is not as challenging as OP makes it out to be. I've seen a lot of people with the attitude OP has and I think it makes for a toxic and unwelcoming environment. As someone who has used complex algorithms research in my work, I agree white boarding has some carryover to some FANG work. But my experience is that there is vastly more boring CRUD work to do and you must generally fight with others to get the interesting/challenging algorithmics work. No need to filter out a ton of qualified people because they can't perform a tiny fraction of the work happening here.
  - 01100011 5y ago
    I think your biases have caused you to misread my original comment and attribute to me some beliefs with which you disagree. > vastly more boring CRUD work I don't do CRUD work and no one even close to my group does that. Are you a web programmer by chance? We work on systems software. If you've dealt with that I think you might agree that there isn't a lot of grunt work involved. Maybe when it comes to writing some tests but even then it can be fairly technical and require a lot of systems-level knowledge. FWIW, I'm not saying I'm personally smarter than anyone. I got lucky and got a job working with the smartest, most dedicated and focused people I have ever met in decades of work. They're smart, and working with them requires some combination of extreme personal sacrifice, intense focus, and a deep and wide knowledge of software, hardware, CS theory and language issues.

hfjkdh790sn 5y ago

> More likely that you've drank the kool aid that you are somehow special and smarter for working at a FANG... The USD $250K/year compensation, 0 YOE, fresh bachelor grad kool aid. Sure. Sorry, but some people in society are strictly inferior to others — defined by an age-adjusted combination of family, friends, health, finances, and happiness, both current and future trajectory.

badcomment111 5y ago
Ranking people like this is sickening.
cema 5y ago
"Some people are ... inferior to others." Don't you want to qualify your statement a little?

throwaway67834 5y ago

Why are you so mad that someone allegedly considers themselves smarter than you?

wiseowise 5y ago

Why are you so upset that somebody considers themselves smarter than you? Serious question.

slingnow 5y ago
Interesting that you decided that the OP: 1. Is upset 2. Interpreted the parent comment as being smarter than OP Serious question: where did you infer these things from?
- wiseowise 5y ago
  > Is upset Nobody is going to write such a rant if they're not upset. >> Typical FANG employee... Hates whiteboard interviews until they get into FANG, then thinks that anyone outside of FANG is actually delusional about their skills and must whiteboard to prove themselves worthy of handling the incredibly challenging world which is FANG- engineering. > Interpreted the parent comment as being smarter than OP >> More likely that you've drank the kool aid that you are somehow special and smarter for working at a FANG... ???
throwaway98az8 5y ago
Nope, not upset. Just trying to make OP aware of their contradictory behavior. OP might be smarter than me, who knows. I don't really care, I feel pretty good about my intelligence level even though I know there are plenty of folks smarter than me out there. What I am is annoyed at the elitism that OP shows. I work at a FANG, have worked at a couple SV unicorns too. There is plenty of work happening here that is not as challenging as OP makes it out to be. I've seen a lot of people with the attitude OP has and I think it makes for a toxic and unwelcoming environment. As someone who has used complex algorithms research in my work, I agree white boarding has some carryover to some FANG work. But my experience is that there is vastly more boring CRUD work to do and you must generally fight with others to get the interesting/challenging algorithmics work. No need to filter out a ton of qualified people because they can't perform a tiny fraction of the work happening here.
- 01100011 5y ago
  I think your biases have caused you to misread my original comment and attribute to me some beliefs with which you disagree. > vastly more boring CRUD work I don't do CRUD work and no one even close to my group does that. Are you a web programmer by chance? We work on systems software. If you've dealt with that I think you might agree that there isn't a lot of grunt work involved. Maybe when it comes to writing some tests but even then it can be fairly technical and require a lot of systems-level knowledge. FWIW, I'm not saying I'm personally smarter than anyone. I got lucky and got a job working with the smartest, most dedicated and focused people I have ever met in decades of work. They're smart, and working with them requires some combination of extreme personal sacrifice, intense focus, and a deep and wide knowledge of software, hardware, CS theory and language issues.