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I would never work at a FAANG unless I had no other option. They will pay you handsomely, but they will take their pound of flesh. It's also extremely monocultu

I would never work at a FAANG unless I had no other option. They will pay you handsomely, but they will take their pound of flesh. It's also extremely monocultural: your life, your world, your culture, is about their bottom line. Personally, if I was presented with a leetcode interview (I was interviewing a few months ago), I bowed out pretty damned quickly. You really need to catch up on the tech. In addition to what the other comments are saying, look into contributing: https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners Obviously, FAANG is for some people. You seriously need to have a very hard think if that is you.

birdyrooster 5y ago
What you are saying is true of only a handful of business units in these companies. The rest of the supporting engineering staff does like 5-30 hours of actual work per week and some of the most stress comes from feeling under utilized or unimportant.
- bpodgursky 5y ago
  Yeah idk what model the OP has of FAANGs in his/her mind, but it's totally misaligned with reality. Some roles at Amazon fit that model. But most roles at bigcorps are where you go to coast, vs startups where you have to actually show results and put in a full 40 (at least) hours a week.
bradknowles 5y ago
I must confess, I was recently hired by AWS. I didn’t see any LeetCode. Maybe I’m lucky, but the hiring process is actually quite involved from what I’ve seen, and they have some very specific processes that they go through to try and make sure you’re a good fit for the team and will likely be able to do the job well. Maybe some of the more dev-focused jobs do have a shared coding environment that they want you to use for the examples they will want you to go through, but they also tell you in advance what that environment is so that you can play around with it before the interview and so that it won’t be totally alien to you.

birdyrooster 5y ago

What you are saying is true of only a handful of business units in these companies. The rest of the supporting engineering staff does like 5-30 hours of actual work per week and some of the most stress comes from feeling under utilized or unimportant.

bpodgursky 5y ago
Yeah idk what model the OP has of FAANGs in his/her mind, but it's totally misaligned with reality. Some roles at Amazon fit that model. But most roles at bigcorps are where you go to coast, vs startups where you have to actually show results and put in a full 40 (at least) hours a week.

bradknowles 5y ago

I must confess, I was recently hired by AWS. I didn’t see any LeetCode. Maybe I’m lucky, but the hiring process is actually quite involved from what I’ve seen, and they have some very specific processes that they go through to try and make sure you’re a good fit for the team and will likely be able to do the job well. Maybe some of the more dev-focused jobs do have a shared coding environment that they want you to use for the examples they will want you to go through, but they also tell you in advance what that environment is so that you can play around with it before the interview and so that it won’t be totally alien to you.