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I disagree. If nerds remain nerds and the focus is on learning and trying out cool stuff then Leetcode would not exist . There would be way more companies comin
by nus07 4y ago
I disagree. If nerds remain nerds and the focus is on learning and trying out cool stuff then Leetcode would not exist . There would be way more companies coming out to compete or springing up with cool stuff . Apart from TikTok upending Facebook , none of the other big tech firms have any competition and I do not see them having a viable threat in the next 5-6 years . They will buy up any competitors.
Anecdotally- I know of two people who quit tenured professor positions in physics and neuroscience to join big tech . The one in neuroscience had recently made a big find and Google Deepmind came and offered an insane amount of money she would never make even if she won the Nobel prize.
- novok 4y agoLeetcode is a counter response to an interview type that existed well before the current tech boom, and the interview type existed as long as google was an ascendant company, since they were the ones that popularized it. Before algorithmic interviews, there were microsoft's lateral thinking interviews that were the bullshit interview type du-jour that everyone complained about. The money is the relatively recent thing that made people practice for leetcode more that wouldn't necessarily go into software otherwise, but the algorithmic interview was there before tech started paying a lot and became the only growth engine of the american economy that is left.
- paulpauper 4y agoFacebook and TikTok are in a very strong position, imho. Netflix is the weakest of the big tech and has the most competitors.
- imachine1980_ 4y agoI feel Netflix used to look like a tech companies couscous they where the first that use the new medium, and expand to the world market whit easy. But in the long run they aren't, you (regular joe,jhon,juan, karen, maria,Raphaël) don't care whats the tech stack of Netflix and not as much for the ux, you care about content, and now you have all the platform who produce content (hbo, cbs, disney), they want to maximize they profits, and they know how to creates long term fans, sustain numbers of rating, Netflix don't. They focus on license media, and short dopamine hits who work for 5 years, but now nobody care anymore.
- scarface74 4y agoDespite the FAANG acronym, Netflix was always a nothing burger in terms of BigTech. Even befits the crash they were like #50 in terms of market cap. BigTech should have always been FAAMG. With Microsoft instead of Netflix. Those five ads worth more than a trillion
- neeleshs 4y agoMAAMA? (Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet)
- msikora 4y agoI'm coining GAMMA: Google - Apple - Meta - Microsoft - Amazon
- azemetre 4y agoFAANG was never about big tech it was about companies that experienced tremendous stock growth 100-300% in a short time. Then people co opted the term to mean companies that paid well (wow the company with high stock growth pays more). In regards to this Netflix was absolutely innovative in regards to engineering. They literally wrote the book on chaos practices. They also pay extremely high base salary ($400-600k). Microsoft never paid well in regards to its peers.
- whimsicalism 4y ago> Microsoft never paid well in regards to its peers. Their subsidiary, Linkedin, beats most of Microsoft's peers.
- l33t2328 4y ago> Apart from TikTok upending Facebook , none of the other big tech firms have any competition and I do not see them having a viable threat in the next 5-6 years . They will buy up any competitors What does that have to do with nerds remaining nerds?
- whimsicalism 4y agoIt doesn't lol
- uejfiweun 4y agoOh please. The questions asked in modern day interviews are ridiculous. If you don't receive a specific quality and caliber of education, then you will be completely hopeless without Leetcode practice and CTCI. Do you seriously expect people to intuitively discover the Blum-Floyd-Pratt-Rivest-Tarjan algorithm in the space of a 30 min whiteboard interview?