Re:Why I Studied Full-Time for 8 Months for a Google Interview
by user5994461 on Friday December 16, 2016 @04:29PM
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I too don't understand the appeal of working for big tech companies.
Until a recruiter from Facebook contacted me and sent me a list of teams at Facebook to pick the ones I'd be interested in.
http://imgur.com/9p7QJ5s (just an excerpt)
Then I figured out there aren't many places in the world where I could do cache infrastructure "to handle over a billion requests per second" or storage datacenters to store "350+ million photos uploaded per day to Facebook -the largest photos site on the Internet-".
Next thing you know. I'm interviewing at yet-another-big-company. Damn, they got me with their marketing //(^-^)//
The fact that he has started 2 successful businesses both of which are still generating revenue is what he should be looking at for confirmation. That is hard and a skill that many developers will never acquire.
He may be disappointed when working for a big company especially after running his own businesses. But it is something else he can say he has done and has learned from. Plus, after he has Google on his resume, he can probably start doubling his contract rates.