I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by noncoml on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:31PM (#18943300)

> Finally, I realized my brain needs more time than the average programmer to find patterns in this type of problems. > I gave up on my goal to land a job in one of these big corporations.

Maybe we are just not good enough.. And maybe it's sour grapes for having been rejected by them, but honestly I don't feel I would be a good fit for Google or FB ideologically. I value user privacy and freedom too much. In my eyes they are both evil-corps.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by rhizome on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:13PM (#18943599)

It's contextual. I've worked at a big, cool company before, and the things I had to be good at to survive (mostly non-technical) simply were not important to me, nor very useful outside of work. They were core requirements for long-term success there, though.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by chris11 on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:37PM (#18944968)

I'm interested in hearing more about that. What were the non-technical requirements that you didn't like?

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by rhizome on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:34PM (#18949322)

Mostly the highly-significant role that social relations play, far beyond what I have experienced at <100ppl companies. This was also in vidya, so it was extra...I don't know if I'd say "vicious," but competitive for sure.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by AlexCoventry on Sunday January 27, 2019 @10:43PM (#19015205)

What's vidya?

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