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by hackinthebochs 742 days ago
>But you're going to use none of those skills here.

FAANGs want the top .1% of developers, they don't necessarily need them for most roles. But the point is to hire developers that you could put into any role in the company within reason and have them be successful. 99% of development work at a FAANG is pretty unexceptional and doesn't require exceptional developers. They hire for that exceptional 1%.
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KaiserPro 742 days ago
> FAANGs want the top .1% of developers,

FAANGS want a load of loyal, naive people who are willing to work loads of overtime and not ask too many questions. Who better than posh kids from great universities who haven't quite figured out that life isn't a meritocracy yet!?

Sure they also want the top 0.1%, but they have a different interview track. Do you think all those OpenAI engineers that were going to follow Altman were asked to do leetcode?

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hackinthebochs 742 days ago
> Do you think all those OpenAI engineers that were going to follow Altman were asked to do leetcode?

I don't know about OpenAI specifically, but I have heard of interviews at other top ML research positions were partly based on leetcode problems.

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