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The problem today is not that to get into FAANG you've got to jump through hoops and loops like a well-trained cage animal (aka fresh graduate) but that this is

The problem today is not that to get into FAANG you've got to jump through hoops and loops like a well-trained cage animal (aka fresh graduate) but that this is getting applied more and more to literally any startup under the sun, even some with 0 funding. As a first engineer for a tiny startup, show me some past projects and let's grab a (virtual) coffee talking tech, that's all. Now it's like McDonald's requesting to perform Michelin level dishes under 45 minutes with Gordon Ramsey in the room while still ending up flipping burgers minimum wage at the end of it all. If this keeps going and getting worse, I wouldn't mind a butt-plug communication, as long as I can pick my favourite AI (I personally kind of prefer Claude right now over ChatGPT.)

eastbound 2y ago
> As a first engineer for a tiny startup, show me some How do you expect startups to make money if you think they aren’t even legitimate to see you program during an interview? Oh, right, you don’t care about your employer’s finances.
- firstplacelast 2y ago
  They're probably just confident in their ability to mentor. A lot of jobs just aren't that hard. Many people struggle to accept this about their own line of work because they think it undermines their intelligence. Find smart people (or middling with a great work ethic) that are easy to work with. Iterate.
dpb001 2y ago
“Flipping burgers…”. This made me laugh because it is so true. My last involvement in interviewing candidates was for a position for an ETL developer. One of the other team members who was part of the interviewer schedule proudly announced that he had discovered a great source of tricky SQL puzzles that he intended to use. My comments were along the lines of “you do you, but I’m more interested in how someone would generally approach the 3 or 4 categories of tasks they will be routinely doing day-to-day”.

eastbound 2y ago

> As a first engineer for a tiny startup, show me some How do you expect startups to make money if you think they aren’t even legitimate to see you program during an interview? Oh, right, you don’t care about your employer’s finances.

firstplacelast 2y ago
They're probably just confident in their ability to mentor. A lot of jobs just aren't that hard. Many people struggle to accept this about their own line of work because they think it undermines their intelligence. Find smart people (or middling with a great work ethic) that are easy to work with. Iterate.

dpb001 2y ago

“Flipping burgers…”. This made me laugh because it is so true. My last involvement in interviewing candidates was for a position for an ETL developer. One of the other team members who was part of the interviewer schedule proudly announced that he had discovered a great source of tricky SQL puzzles that he intended to use. My comments were along the lines of “you do you, but I’m more interested in how someone would generally approach the 3 or 4 categories of tasks they will be routinely doing day-to-day”.