Apparently I’m preparing for SD interview. I came across this question and wonder how videos are stored on distributed file system. Is a file broken into chunks and stored? If so, can a media player play chunk by chunk in serial without combining the chunks? TC 200 Yoe 5 #faang #interview
Neetcode quit his high paying job at Google and ran a 24 hour livestream a few days ago. He spent the entire time solving Leetcode problems through the night. After the stream ended he discovered YouTube doesn’t save streams after 12 hours. No one in the chat recorded the stream so his efforts were...Read more
My friend is a youtube creator ( > 5M subscribers) and all she does is live-streaming herself eating and making ASMR videos from eating food. And apparently she makes 100k a month from this bullshit while I'm only making 1/10 of her income in this sweatshop and eating bananas. TC: 170k YOE: 1
Many years ago their recommendation algorithm was state of the art, but now every streaming service has a similar algorithm, and YouTube is def better at it. They tried to do a live stream a few months ago and that failed, where as Hotstar does a live stream for much larger audiences. What’s still...Read more
Including youtube, netflix and other streaming TC:165k
A tech company in todays world implies a few things. Namely that you work with technology (synonymous with anything touching computers these days, which I think is a fallacy, but I digress). But also that you are high growth and “innovating”. When we look at Netflix, it should be obvious that all th...Read more
Do Google employees have free (or discounted) streaming services such as YouTube TV, Music, Stadia or similar?
Im looking at a role there. As a Googler are you expecting more layoffs this year? what’s the mood in the company? If think your team is vulnerable what is your role, location and team? Is it being driven by cost cutting? Or unprofitable products or businesses? Or AI? Outside or search, hardware, Yo...Read more
I don’t game but do watch YouTube/Streams.
The newest WiFi 7 routers from NETGEAR are over $1,000 which seems completely insane. Reviews say they do not even work well. What is a high uptime router (preferably mesh system with dedicated backhaul) for general web browsing, Zoom meetings and streaming YouTube?
Interviewing for FBs reality labs streaming software position(specialist). Interviewer mentioned a streaming question related to my domain. Other than going through the 2 known ones: Netflix and YouTube. Are there any more known streaming like questions I could learn from? #facebook #systemdesign
In YouTube shorts when you scroll to switch to the next video, quite often the picture changes on the next video but audio stream is from the previous one.
They are so good at video streaming and UI. I’m pretty sure they could create more superior version of YouTube. And use their current customer base and reputation to promote
That includes YouTube premium, apple tv, Amazon prime video, basically anything with a pay wall as a content streaming service.
Are there any twitch streamers for tech or coding or swe? I sometimes follow coding garden. And recently learnt that tourist(aka Gennady) also does twitch streaming. Also heard that Mayuko does twitch streaming(but not sure if there's much to learn since from her youtube videos it looks like she nev...Read more
https://thehustle.co/02032022-youtube-netflix/ Google acquired YouTube for $1.65B in 2006, but didn’t break out earnings for the streaming service until 2020. For the latest quarter, YouTube ads brought in $8.6B. Here’s the wild part: That’s an annualized run rate of $34B, which outpaced Netflix —...Read more
What are alternate legal sources of generating income? YouTube? Property rentals? I am wanting to create automated multiple income streams. Whether or not I can afford it as of today, I want to have a foresight on how I will proceed Let’s start with assuming I have no investments so far but I’m de...Read more
Based on: TC, WLB, and culturewhich is the best to work at. Which are remote? Tc: 150k Yoe: 8 #Netflix #apple #youtube #streaming #amazon #tech