[DANK_YACHT]

I got a job at a FAANG by writing a for loop to check if a number was prime right around that time. The solution was completely naive and the interview was done over the phone in less than an hour. This is an anecdote, but there were some opportunities like this.

[AlchemistCamp]

Were you just out of school or at the beginning of your career? I've never heard of anything remotely like that but there does seem to be a very different set of expectations for 22 year-olds than for 32 or 42 year-olds with a similar set of skills and amount of experience in the industry.

[DANK_YACHT]

Yea I was in school at the time.

[disgruntledphd2]

Were you studying at an "approved" school? Back then that was a big thing for some of the FAANGs.

[DANK_YACHT]

I don’t know. My school wasn’t very good, so I can’t imagine it was on any type of approved school list.