thirduncle

They'll find jobs quickly, that's for sure.

But "work pushing humanity forward"? There's precious little of that in any skill sector - not at FAANG salary levels, anyways. The vast bulk of the work that the vast majority of us do is simply about pushing the investor's balance sheets forward - not "humanity".

What the poster meant was "just about any country" in the world. Which we've seen happen time and time again - the restrictions may be nominally in place (for a while), but eventually they get selectively lifted, and/or the companies find a way to circumvent them.

At times (and not at all surprisingly) with the assistance of certain government agencies chartered with the purpose of not only enacting precisely this kind of subterfuge - but perfecting it as an art.

Almost by definition -- one does not simply "add smarts" (of any kind) to an app.

Have you calculated what salary you'd have to earn to afford an equivalent configuration of {house, cars, debt, schools, commute, sanity} in the BA?

That may be where the lack of understanding comes from.

It's more like -- how they cope with some one deliberately playing with their head.

Or if they're not deliberately playing - they're at at least acting very, very pretentiously. Believing that they know how to cook up a "test" for real-life problem-solving skills. When in reality they're just parroting some toy problem they read on the internet somewhere. Or that someone that they thought was cool gave them in an interview way back when.

Can they start picking it apart, and at least find some bits of it they can solve, or do they squirm, or whine, or rage quit?

In a completely contrived and artificial context that not only bears very little resemblance to the conditions in which developers actually do need to solve difficult real-life problems - but in many ways is in fact a grotesque distortion of those conditions.

No - it's about about people. And helping them solve their real problems.

Math is just a means to that end (one among many).

-- "Because that's where the light is."

Less snarkily: that's because they traits that really matter in a modern development environment -- the ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity; to navigate the tipping points between technical perfection and optimal business value; and and top of all this, a genuine sense of humility and a willingness to work with others whose strengths and weaknesses are different from your own -- are very hard to test for, if they can be "tested" for at all.

But since the current interview "process" is so obsessed with "testing" and stack-ranking... not surprisingly, it's largely rigged around traits that are... easy to "test" for.

Like you know, the ability to crank out rehearsed solutions to algorithm puzzles and the like.

Well, that's kind of the whole point behind the move (or at least a big part of it), actually.

It may be "the new normal" in the Bay Area and other hyperstressed markets.

But it's not a living standard most people aspire to.

So - how much of the "ridiculous" salary is left after subtracting living costs and taxes, actually?

The owners of the forever destroyed street-level businesses, you mean?

The addictiveness of smartphones isn't a "byproduct" of these devices. It is the product.

Zuckerberg: I do not know off the top of my head.

Zuckerberg: Congressman, I do not know off the top of my head but I can have our team get back to you afterward.

This guy must have a whole team of people coaching him on what he can overtly lie about, what he can obfuscate - and when he can't do either, how to change the subject.

It was definitely careless in regard to accuracy. But the original Trulia article it misread from comes a lot closer to making the comparisons you're after.

Which is very clearly not what the video shows.

But the news item is unfortunately "pure politics" per site guidelines.