Looking at GP's profile, lots of NES programming and general gaming work. I can totally see how HR in banks would prefer somebody with 10 years of Java or C# ex

Looking at GP's profile, lots of NES programming and general gaming work. I can totally see how HR in banks would prefer somebody with 10 years of Java or C# experience, familiar with {Vendor}SQL and an employment history in a related banking/finance sector (and screen out everyone else). At least FAANG don't really care about those things. On the other hand if you know your way around assembly on esoteric hardware, the stereotypical FAANG whiteboarding questions like "reverse a linked list" shouldn't be a problem.