Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?

Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by JamesBarney on Monday March 15, 2021 @01:04PM (#26468526)

> a class filter initially designed to not be a class filter: rich people can afford to study for months for free. Poor people can't.

I think whiteboarding problems can be silly but....

If you are applying to these jobs you either just graduated, in which case you just spent 4 years finding time to jump through all the hoops the professors gave you, surely you can find another 3 months to become an expert on whiteboarding problems.

Or you're a professional software developer. And the number of professional software developers who are good enough to work at Google or Amazon, live in the U.S. and are "poor" is a vanishingly small number.

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by M5x7wI3CmbEem10 on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:31PM (#26472645)

I'm a non-CS new grad in STEM with this exact situation. do you suggest a no-name internship, studying algorithms, or both?

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by asdfman123 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:48AM (#26477410)

Get as much experience in dev as you can. But don't feel like you have to have X years of experience to make it.

Studying algorithms is HUGELY IMPORTANT. They say they "just want to see how you think." That's a lie. Big Tech interviews are like a whiteboarding final exam, and you need to shoot for an A.

Study leetcode. Study resources like interviewcake.com or Cracking the Coding Interview, and take practice interviews at interviewing.io.

Good luck, and feel free to hit me up for advice.

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Re:Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers? by M5x7wI3CmbEem10 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:17PM (#26478843)

thanks! may I ask what’s your contact?

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