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Or better yet, one employer. Go follow Dan Luu's advice and educate/train/practice yourself into the top 10% of software developers, then get a FAANG job. That'
by pattern_shift 4y ago
Or better yet, one employer. Go follow Dan Luu's advice and educate/train/practice yourself into the top 10% of software developers, then get a FAANG job. That's the surest path to financial security and a safe, comfy upper middle class lifestyle.
But if you don't want to go just be an employee and beholden to one employer, then keep that line of reasoning going and you'll see that 1,000,000 casual listeners > 100,000 sh*t fans > 10,000 mediocre fans > 1,000 true fans > 100 scary stalker fans > 10 b2b customers > 1 employer/patron.
- scarface74 4y agoDid I just fall into r/cscareerquestions? “Grind Leetcode and work for a FAANG”? You don’t have to be in the top 10% of developers to get hired. You just have to be willing and able to pass DS&A interview. The two skill sets are miles apart. Before the gatekeeping starts. Yes I work for “a FAANG”. Yes I am (was?) a software developer. No I did not do a single coding interview to get here yet I code everyday.
- pattern_shift 4y agoI didn't say any of that, in fact I referred to Dan Luu here so that people would get the shorthand (Luu family has written that DS&A coding and whiteboard interviews are not predictive). The only reason you're picking this apart is that you're confusing necessary and sufficient conditions as well as confusing sufficing and optimizing. Either way you're not responding to the substantive point: that if you're optimizing for an expectation of regular high income rather than creative freedom, employment (being dependent on one entity) is the path. But if you want creative freedom, a large number of people that like your work a little is better than being beholden to ten business or 1000 devoted big spender fans.