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I landed 18 FAANG+ software engineer offers
- akomtu 4y agoIn 2019 the tech sector was hiring anyone with a pulse. I bet that today he wouldn't get many offers.
- devwastaken 4y agoThis is not true. CS graduates were overwhelmingly not employed in their field after graduation. Outside of a few "top" schools that funnel into big tech. We have had an oversaturation of devs for years.
- thiele 4y agoSource?
- SamReidHughes 4y agoUnless things have changed, if you don't go to a top school, you'll see lots of CS majors who can't really code, struggle through projects, and get degrees.
- devwastaken 4y agoInterviews don't interview for coding ability. Top schools would fail if this were true. It's all about elitism.
- 535188B17C93743 4y agoTech hiring is so broken.
- yrgulation 4y ago
- valboa 4y agoMy experience exactly. It is broken. From my experience, is a result of the high cost of employees, an increasing mount of HR practices and processes and a sense of entitlement from both the company and the candidate. Something should be done to make technical and system design questions a thing of the past. Culture fit is the only one unavoidable.
- hyperchrome 4y agoLOL offer inequality is a thing
- potbelly83 4y agoI miss the days where people actually cared if you knew about threading, how the unix file system worked, the finer points of the language you choose to work in. Yeah I get it, most of it is book knowledge, but it still somehow selected for the people that actually built the foundations of the tech companies we see today. The current crop of hires aren't really contributing anything fundamental, just jumping from one high paying gig to the next (and I say this as someone who works at one of those fancy places he get an offer from).
- lrvick 4y agoPeople that cannot demonstrate a working knowledge of Linux system internals never pass interviews with me. I tend to catch the CS bootcamp types cold because I only ask real world practical debugging questions that select for experience.
- okdood64 4y agoGoogle's SRE interview, the SA track one, have a 45-min interview solely focused on Linux system internals. (In addition to standard LeetCode, networking & troubleshooting components.) A few other larger companies do this as well for SRE interviews.
- intelVISA 4y agoAs it should be. I'd be very wary of company that didn't...
- satvikpendem 4y agoFor what role? I wouldn't for example expect that for a full stack role, but I would for something like DevOps or SRE.
- lrvick 4y agoAny full stack engineer should have a working knowledge of the system they are writing code for, or they will end up making massive security mistakes.
- ipunchghosts 4y ago
- TheBigSalad 4y agoWhat don't you like about it? It sounds like a good approach to me.
- rebelos 4y ago[removed]
- dang 4y agoPlease don't post personal attacks to HN. You may not owe 18-FAANG-interview-offer-receivers better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 1B05H1N 4y agoWhat a tremendous waste of time for everyone involved.
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- raincom 4y agoPretty systematic and efficient way to get high paying jobs. Kudos to the author. I wish I had the talent and energy to prepare for these interviews. The system that Steven put out is just like a stock trading system, with stocks that break out, etc. https://www.breakoutlist.com/ https://www.breakoutlist.com/ is a nice compilation of companies that can make you a multi millionaire, just like break out stocks sent out by stock gurus like Dan Zanger.
- stevenzzzzzzz 4y ago(steven here) thanks, interesting comparison with stocks! breakoutlist actually helped me pick my last job. somewhat relatedly, I made a breakoutlist for climatetech companies recently: http://climatetechlist.com/ http://climatetechlist.com/ with some friends