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No. Even if they work for BigBank. They usually are building some internal / enterprise app used by 20-100 people.

Statistically that's what they are. There are only a handful of Billion+ scale apps.

Also, it's ridiculous to shit on Silicon Valley hiring practices when they constantly churn out innovative software stacks and products.

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1. I would guess that many of the commenters in this subthread work for Silicon Valley big tech, including some apparent (ex-)Googlers who are openly skeptical of their company’s interview process.

2. By reputation, most big Silicon Valley companies, including those that operate “high scale” apps don’t put as much stock into leetcode-style interviews as Google.

3. Silicon Valley, obviously, does not have the monopoly on high scale applications.

No offense, but most (ex-) Googlers have zero business / customer value sense. So, they have no weight in their opinions about how to build a $1T Business

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