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Why are you not getting the job you want?
For me in late 2018: Scooter startups were the new fad, Lyft and Bird were the kings of the market at the time. Bird was known for being the fastest company ever to reach a $1B valuation. MemSql & Magic Leap were the hot unicorns startups. Peloton gave out extremely hard interviews (LC hard) and was considered more difficult/selective than Google. Snapchat as a company was considered dead in the water. Just 1 year after IPO’ing in 2017 shares tanked -75% to below $6 a share.
Yahoo, Microsoft and a new search engine startup
Lol, same. Wish I'd gotten into that search startup instead of doing consluting.
I have a feeling that your typo might be intentional 🤔
Late 2015 - Quora
Oh man that hype, those parties and all for a spam website.
Social network that everyone uses
Google and Facebook
;)
Nuff said
1993 lol. IBM, HP. I knew a lot of guys who went to EDS. MS had just released Windows 3.1. If I only could go back to my younger self and say “move to Seattle”. Back then you went there for the music or because you were in the Navy and they stationed you there.
Old fart
Plus Nirvana! These young people don’t know!
2005 - 2007: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo and Google 2008/2009: A startup called Facebook 2010/2011: LinkedIn and Twitter and Netflix 2012/2013 Dropbox and Pinterest 2014: Quora 2015: Uber 2016: Lyft, Airbnb, Stripe, Square, Snapchat 2017: No new companies. Same set of companies 2019: Roblox, Stripe, Airbnb became super hot 2022: OpenAI 2023: OpenAI Apple was one of the companies which was always a well respected place to work for during this entire time
IBM in 1960.
This is way before my time but may still be interesting: Around 2010, a company called GETCO was apparently considered HRT, rentech kind of prestigious. GETCO then merged with Knight Capital after Knight blew up because of buggy software, and became KCG. KCG got acquired by Virtu which is one of the worst companies in finance to work for according to this app and other anecdotes I have heard of myself.
Late 2017 - square had really hard interviews, palantir paid alot
Ohhh, yeah. I forgot about Palantir, they were thought of to be a solid tier above FAANG. At the time very prestigious/selective.
I never remember Palantir being more prestigious than FAANG. I got an offer from them as a new grad in 2017 and it was a very easy decline. They always had a shitty government reputation. Only thing was their interviews were hard but you don’t gain prestige just from hard interviews