Say, if we are the author of protobuf.js, or react-spring, or redux-saga, won't we be quite likely to be invited to join a FAANG company, instead of us grinding the problems on LeetCode? #faang #interviews #opensource #leetcode
Ask the developer of Homebrew
Top tier tweet that was
He didn’t know how to transverse a tree (or something very simple like that) and went crying to Twitter, right?
Na they dgaf. There’s a famous Twitter rant about how the guy who created homebrew got rejected from Apple because he couldn’t do a LC problem.
It was Google and he couldn’t invert a binary tree.
Oh yea. Apple would’ve been more ironic.
You‘ll get invited to interview, but you have to algorithm grind as everyone else to get the offer.
Which explains why the process is BS.
maybe that's why 2000 years ago, in China, the king (the empire) first gave people some nonsense memorization tests. If they can recite word for word, they become the "leader" and since it is so hard to become, he was willing to be a dog for the empire and serve them like a dog
you still have to invert binary tree in the interview
Product is different from engineering. Making a successful product doesn’t mean you are good engineer
While I agree with this, being a good engineer doesn't also mean you'll build a good product ;)
Hence Google
I’ve interviewed someone who founded and sold 2 companies and rejected him. It’s because he applied as engineer and his engineering is bad. We referred him to PM role but he didn’t want it. Just because you made a popular npm package doesn’t mean your engineering is good.
why does "good" engineering matter, so long as the work makes you money? I know plenty of great algo-leetcoder dudes that wind up creating complex rube goldberg machines that take 3x time to build and still fall flat when they have to integrate them with existing systems.
Lyft - you just explained why good engineering is important. You just don’t believe that being good at LeetCode has a strong correlation with being a good engineer, which is a different debate entirely.
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