What's "the" thing you did to crack Google interview?
I'm f***ing tired of continuous fire culture all through my career. Need a break from it.
It's like having fire on my ass!
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Traded in Badass Comp Architecture, Control Systems, Power and Performance optimized Runtime for C++ Abseil where the focus is on how to make everything a callback after following 25 C++ idioms pasted on Toilet walls. And of course systems running gazzilion threadpools with no notion of Feedback loops or Control Systems (aka Amateur Hour 101)
Traded in Apple's Focal (aka impact and product driven) that I had mastered over the years for Google's Perf (aka get L+2 to write a nice peer review) Don't even get me started on doc writing, the total value added by most docs is very little.
Somebody take me back in time so I can hang up on that damn recruiter and continue on with my life ...
Getting into any big company with tough interviews involves more luck than most people realize or like to admit. In the SW world we are taught to claim every victory as ours, but telling this from experience (multiple FAANGs on my resume), interviewing is a big game of luck, I can’t stress this enough. There are people with 700+ LCs who didn’t get into Google while there are people who never did any LC and got in. I personally know 3 rockstar engineers who would take rings around most L6/7 engineers at G/FB, who were rejected by these companies. On the other hand I also know 4-5 folks who got into Google, had never done a single LC in their life and even bombed a couple of rounds.