Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
by msoad on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:34AM
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FAANG has a system for firing people who can't cope with the complexity of the job. There is a huge survivors bios. To be a FAANG engineer you need to be able to pass the interview and have the skills (mostly people skills) to navigate a large system.
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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:10PM
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Surely companies account for this in their interview teams? Or are they just haplessly floating on the narrowly applied intelligence of their workers? (Or something else, not suggesting a divalency).
Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
by gregors on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:38PM
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I don't know if it's true but during a video talk there was a story that a team of googlers were secretly given their own feedback ratings and they didn't hire themselves.
Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
by erik_seaberg on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:34PM
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Amazon introduced the notion of a “bar raiser” who expects a candidate to be stronger than 50% of the staff. It’s sort of appealing, but if your attrition is unbiased (you lose equal numbers of strong and weak staff) the right edge of the bell curve seems too small to keep up with it.