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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by chrisseaton on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:22PM (#24734033)
> one of the 100k+ FAANG engineers

Right, but 100k FAANG engineers is like the top 1% of engineers worldwide.

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by _jal on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:28PM (#24734102)
Perhaps by pay scale. Definitely not by talent/productivity.
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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by chrisseaton on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:38PM (#24734193)
I'm pretty sure anyone able to pass a FAANG interview is well within the 1% of talent for our industry. Those things are brutal.
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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by _jal on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:10PM (#24734479)
The interviews are brutal. But they don't consistently identify talent. I know a lot of people at all of them and turn down interviews nearly constantly (Apple is the only one I've considered - the rest violate my ethical standards. And I'm not going to commute to Cupertino).

There's a lot of deadweight at these companies.

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by cambalache on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:59PM (#24734373)
And all of the are at FAANG? How convenient
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