sockgrant

I don't think it's unfair to say that Google and FB are considered to have strong engineering talent. So the interview process has to have _some_ hand in that success, even if it's also turning away some would-be strong performers.

I'm not saying the interview process shouldn't be criticized or that it's beyond improvement. And, yeah, it's a little silly to go memorize a bunch of algorithms so you can recite them on the stop. Furthermore, so many interview questions are posted on leetcode... and there's so many more flaws to be pointed out, but in spite of that, they still manage to have a high engineering bar.

But if you only read HN you'd think it's a total failure.

I mean, practice for the job you want.

The majority of software jobs don't need this stuff -- writing frontend code, writing some backend services, mobile.... the type of work where you a) aren't building the platforms / tools everything is based on b) don't need the best performance, just need it to work OK.

But there are plenty of jobs that do need this stuff. Working on an OS, or database, or a product used by millions, or a large scale platform...

Or are you saying that there’s hundreds of videos of piece of trash cops and you’re projecting that to all cops?

> There are no good career cops

I’ve watched a few videos of cops kneeling with protestors or cops laying down guns and walking with them. Are those bad cops?

When you say “there are no good career cops” that means there doesn’t exist one good career cop. It’s a ludicrous thing to say.

There certainly exist police that just want to be tough guys and beat people up. But there’s plenty officers not like that.

You detract from your other points by taking such a black and white stance.

2) but somewhere somehow this object will deallocate, so his trick of putting it to another thread would work if the deal location takes awhile. Same for cpp if you have a massive object in a unique ptr. So it’s not a rust issue

How would you categorize pro life?

How would you categorize shipping all homeless population to another state?

My take on the purpose of this game, besides obviously for fun, is to get people more engaged with what's happening in politics, and who is responsible for what.

I don't think a program should tell people what is good and bad.

I think it's wonderful to give them the motivation to learn and draw their own conclusions.

Get promoted once at google / Facebook and you should be there. Promoted again and you’ll be 300-350k

OP said Taycan is the new Model S, I think that your comment vs. mine highlights that this isn't true -- Taycan customers are not the same as Tesla customers. Tesla customers get a good bang for their buck -- speed, range, charging network at a cheap price. Porsche customers get brand, design, & build quality.

Someone who values what Porsche has to offer probably was never interested in a Tesla.

Meanwhile a Model 3 Performance -- the same speed as the Taycan -- costs $90,000 less.

If their onsite has more leetcode coding questions, then the interview served its purpose.

It was that it was a slow creep that lead him down the path and sometimes you don’t realize where you’re headed until you have a come-to moment where you take stock of your life.

I’ve done it before and it’s a great experience. 100% worth it. Follow your dreams.

Just don’t delude yourself into thinking you will grow your side project into a full time income. You may. But don’t count on it.

The exception is if you pay good money to advertise with them.

People should stop being surprised that Google’s side projects that don’t even make a blip on the earnings report are not to be used.

Don’t build on google APIs unless it’s Android and don’t make them your phone carrier.

Seriously.

I can't say this strongly enough:

Google APIs and platforms are for building toy weekend projects. DO NOT use them for your business.

Slack is a chat app.

You can chat over slack about goals, but slack isn’t goals and goals aren’t a chat app.

The big ones. Google Facebook Microsoft Amazon.

> Is it realistic to make 500k-1 million+ at these companies as a developer?

It's realistic but not a given. You've gotta be into staff software engineer+ range to be making that much. Plenty of people never make staff.

> How much is it in stocks/rsus vs salary at that point?

Probably around 50/50. 50 salary 50 bonus + rsus. Or maybe even 40 salary 60 bonus + rsu.

> What skillsets do these people have?

Be one of the better software engineers at a company that can curate top engineers.

Strong communication, high interpersonal skills, ability to lead complex software projects, high intelligence, fast learner, breadth and depth of understanding of software. Plays well with others. Generalist -- able to work in a variety of languages with different tools, with no hesitation to learn and quickly understand new environments. These engineers may be domain experts at specific things, but they are by no means pigeonholed.

Usually, but not always, these engineers are also very productive and motivated.

While I was watching I started out in awe feeling like "holy crap, I'm looking at a UFO!" But after staring at it for a long time and then having the white flashes I quickly changed to "oh fuck, I'm near a UFO".

I was with someone, they were very scared, too.