[throway1n]

this is so wrong i cant believe i am reading it. solving imaginary problems is not the same as being good at your job as an engineer. if google expects people to solve issues at a machine gun rate, it means google wants brick layers that lay bricks constantly. not people who need to stop and think about design issues over time. it wants workers to implement poorly sketched requirements and execute instructions on the assembly line.

i look more after how people approach problems at a high level, where they show how they build the whole system and how they interact with peers and other departments to tell if they can gather data, organise it in specs, and then fine tune nicely build parts of a system. not code monkeys.

[deanCommie]

Yeah, you're right, Google and Amazon hire a bunch of brick layers that can't design a long term sustainable system... Come on man

[throway1n]

thats like saying everyone in the ford factory is hired to design vehicles. some of the bunch are just workers implementing instructions. i interviewed a few ex google, yahoo and amazon and they were exactly that.

[deanCommie]

A few out of tens of thousands will sneak through, especially if they got managed out of couldn't hack it.

The vast majority at the FAANGs are full stack engineers which includes long term system design.

The comparison to a car assembly factory is so ridiculously out of alignment with reality that I can see why you chose to go with a throwaway account.