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I was thinking something similar. The FAANG interview has been optimized to punish candidates with actual experience in these problems in favor of those that ca
by kaidon 5y ago
I was thinking something similar. The FAANG interview has been optimized to punish candidates with actual experience in these problems in favor of those that can solve leetcode problems and regurgitate design architectures from youtube. This filters out a lot of engineers with grit that can actually work through tough real world (IT) problems.
- gonzo41 5y agoThose people, the gritty ones who can't make it through the interview hoops are busy integrating companies into the cloud providers. Now they're taking it easy whilst the new kids are getting a first class lesson in what grit is.
- aeyes 5y agoI don't even work at FAANG but even we have our own in-house grown compute platforms with layers and layers of abstractions and enormous complexity which were built over several years by hundreds of engineers. These don't resemble public cloud or open source solutions at all, ideas are similar at best. You can have a lot of real world small company knowledge but the moment you walk through the door this experience is worthless, all that counts is how fast you can adapt and how good your understanding of the basics is. Look at some of the code that was open sourced by Yahoo years ago. Other large engineering organizations today have technology which far exceeds the complexity of what was made public by Yahoo a decade ago. Unfortunately Yahoo is pretty much the only example of a large company open sourcing big portions of their platform code.