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Damn, you got lucky! A FAANG on the CV without preparing leetcode BS for months! I had one of the guys I was managing in a startup get into the AI company tha

Damn, you got lucky! A FAANG on the CV without preparing leetcode BS for months! I had one of the guys I was managing in a startup get into the AI company that Google bought without leetcoding. I was pretty jelly but still determined not to spend months on leetcoding, dealing with shitty big org politics, performance reviews and having to work from the office (it was still back in the days when people were free to work from the office). Without the cost of leetcoding I could probably tolerate it for a couple of years and resell myself as a Xers for the rest of my career. With leetcoding and the risk of failure, fuck that.

KaiserPro 5y ago
Well it was quite cute actually. With that still to come, we as a company stopped working on the core business for two weeks and settled down for leetcode practice and mock interviews. We had the luxury of doing it all together and learning form each other in work hours. So it was a lot less stressful than it would have otherwise been. In the UK it's illegal to buy a company and fire/rehire all the staff. The way they got round that was to say that if we didn't agree to waive our rights, we wouldn't get any money. The money we were offered as part of the share settlement was about half what we could expect if we went to court(ie 1/2 a years wage net). The main deal from the evil overlord was "join us and you'll be spaffed with cash" turns out there are a lot of myths about being bought out, its nowhere near as glamorous as we've been lead to believe. but yeah, I don't think I'd have ever really have applied, especially given the silly amount of prep one is supposed to do.