If we take inflation into account and use USD (I am not as easily able to find Tsarist ruple inflation information) and checked it to the years of his birth and death that would be about $24M to $26M. Quite an ambitious number then. Now as an inevitable consequence of continual inflation a million dollars is good for an estimated 19 years of retirement income with investments. Certainly nothing to sneeze at today but not the same great wealth it once was.
Honest question; are you actually 'set' once you get past the leetcode interview phase, or are there frequent performance reviews and the like with the risk of getting sacked if you suck at your day job?
But for what I read on HN, leetcode it's just a filter to get in like having harvard or stanford in your resume is too...
Once you pass the filters, however you do, I say there are much more important stuff to know than leetcode that can predit how well you will do... Also in any big company the size of those, it's literally a gamble as in the team you'll be working with will be the most important thing affecting you, besides salary or whatever... So you've a lot of variance on success on those big shops.
I've never tried/had a leetcode interview tbh, 4-8h take-home code challenges (in frontend positions I apply) are more abundant in my experience. But I'm not in the US so who knows...
There are certain companies that come with a significant risk of getting sacked for performance reasons: Amazon, Netflix, Facebook primarily. Others like Google, Cisco, Microsoft are known for being very chill on non-cloud teams and would be pretty hard to be fired from if you're doing the bare minimum.