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 behringer on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:25PM (#18943684)

If you want my opinion, these companies aren't looking for awesome talent. They're looking for people who will put up with their schedules, demands, management. They don't want creative thinkers with experience in multiple fields. They're looking for one-trick ponies that will do what their told and will be happy to get stabled by 40.

You're better off following your own path and making your own things happen.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by mav3rick on Friday January 18, 2019 @06:16PM (#18944048)

"They don't want creative thinkers with experience in multiple fields"

You have no idea how diverse people are in terms of talent at big companies. This is a myth peddled here at HN that FAANG employees write CRUD apps and are one dimensional. The best perk of my job is the random lunch scheduler where I've met a former Olympian, someone who is on the Rust core API team and a professional ballerina + software person.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by jopsen on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:42PM (#18943820)

I work at Google some of my co-workers work reasonable hours, quite a few have been there for 10 years.

The same was the case when I worked at Mozilla..

But I've always felt the interview process at these places extremely arbitrary.

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