[sanderjd]

Yep, it was totally worth it for me to subject myself to the big tech hiring process. I have no student loan debt and own a nice house now because I did that. (And I learned a lot and met a lot of great and unbelievably smart and talented people during my years at that job also.) But the day I did the interview panel was still one of the worst most stressful days of my life. And it gave no signal on how well I was going to do in that job. It gave a lot of signal on how well I could manage subjecting myself to a miserable ritual, which is not nothing, but it sure ain't much.