[thwy12321]

My take on Quora and business like them:

They are hiring people based on leet code questions and school prestige and not based on real technical knowledge about systems. Their business people are top school MBA grads with no security domain expertise. They then proceed to build massive data collection programs using open source tooling that non of them fully understand. Their business model depends on that data and monetizing it in various ways. An so the complexity of their application goes through the roof with regards to user data. Their user facing web apps are the tip of the iceberg for a massive surveillance scheme.

[amrx431]

> They are hiring people based on leet code questions and school prestige and not based on real technical knowledge about systems

Isn't that true for almost all companies based in the Sillicon Valley?

[thwy12321]

The big companies, Google/Fb/etc hire that way but they also bring on niche experts. Leet code at those companies is for the code monkeys. They hire the people writing the ML/distributed systems/security code out of PhD programs and targeted hiring. Theres more to it, dont feel like typing it all up