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Re:Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987) by jasonkester on Monday July 05, 2021 @12:18PM (#27739470)
Sure. I bet those vocal people would be happy to explain in detail what they did to get those jobs.

It’s not easy, and you may need to actually go to the place where those jobs are. But each of those companies will hire thousands of people at those compensation level in the next year. And the people they hire were in no way exceptional (or different to you) before they started down the path to getting where they are now.

There’s no reason you can’t be one of them.

Re:Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987) by me_me_me on Monday July 05, 2021 @01:06PM (#27739888)
I am sure if I only buy their book on how to get those jobs I will get one.
Re:Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987) by filoleg on Monday July 05, 2021 @02:52PM (#27740812)
No need to buy "their book on how to get those jobs" or anything like that.

To get the interview, you just gotta have some years of experience, some side projects, and that's about it. If you went to a top tier school or something like that, you don't even need the years of experience. Getting an interview at those companies is the easy part, pretty much everyone I went to college with got an interview with one of those companies before graduating (and I didn't go to some super known ivy league college, it was just a pretty good public school in Georgia). The issue was that most people didn't pass those interviews.

To pass the interview, read up on systems design, read up on algorithms, practice some leetcode/hackerrank/etc., and you are good to go. All of those resources can be easily obtained for free. There is no secret or trick to any of that.