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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by sneak on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:14AM (#26793342)
This is a straw man: choosing not to work for fools is not opting out of social signaling.

If you know how to program, you have lots of options.

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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by lisper on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:21AM (#26793465)
> choosing not to work for fools is not opting out of social signaling.

That depends entirely on how you choose to define "fools".

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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by filoleg on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:25PM (#26797746)
Agreed. I am quite ok with being a "fool", if it means working for a FAANG tier company and collecting FAANG tier compensation.

I am not going to disadvantage myself by refusing to participate in this on some questionable principle. While I agree that Leetcode-style interviews are not the overall best, I am yet to come up with an alternative that addresses all those issues without introducing massive new ones. So it is a compromise. And as long as this compromise stands, I am fully intending on getting the most out of it.

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