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"Studied for a month". What are you all, geniuses? I am a Chartered Financial Analyst, Google Cloud Certified Architect, Azure Certified Architect, all-A studen
by throw24012312 5y ago
"Studied for a month". What are you all, geniuses? I am a Chartered Financial Analyst, Google Cloud Certified Architect, Azure Certified Architect, all-A student, "Architect" title at work, and otherwise not too dumb - not humble brag, straight up brag.
And yet, I am sure it would take me 6 months to prep for these interviews (while employed full time). Yet everyone is throwing around "lol a month". Trying to figure out if you are all top 1% brilliant geniuses or completely, completely full of it.
- unoti 5y agoI also spent months preparing for the interviews. People here also talk about being able to build complex systems "in a weekend". I tell myself it's OK if it takes me longer to prepare for certain things to do a good job; the important thing is that I do a good job.
- Jensson 5y agoIf you are top few percent of software engineers in terms of talent then it wont be much work to get into FAANG. Top few percent doesn't seem like a lot of people, but this is a big forum, and people who are good at something are more likely to respond to a question than those who aren't.
- QuercusMax 5y agoI wasn't learning from 0, and I had been interviewing candidates all the time at my then-current position. It was really primarily review / drill. As far as if I'm a genius or not - I think I'm pretty smart but think the same about lots of people I've worked with. I graduated with a 3.9 GPA at frankly a pretty easy school (Kent State), where I definitely was one of the top students in undergrad. I've definitely worked with smarter people at Google.