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How good of a coder do you need to be for Google and FB?
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:52 PM Author: Charismatic Kitchen My cousin's son is 24 and is working at FB. He bought his first house before 25. He got a job with them before even graduating college, was an intern for 6 months and then was offered a full time job.
Is this credited at all? Or does the job suck? |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:56 PM Author: adventurous shivering gas station if you are into math and science and technical challenges and don't care much about the application area it can be fine. how did he buy a house after three years? even if he was a superstar making 400k a year, that's not easy in that area. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488544) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:19 PM Author: Charismatic Kitchen Bought his house in his hometown, obviously not in Silicon Valley. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488754) |
Date: October 20th, 2017 2:52 PM Author: Odious claret station it's tough, especially right out of college.
most of the high iq kids who would've otherwise gone into finance are going into tech. |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:53 PM Author: Charismatic Kitchen Elaborate. Are you a coder? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488507) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:53 PM Author: Odious claret station i know how to code, but not a professional coder. i know the market well enough to know that fb and goog are among the most coveted places to get jobs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488517) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:55 PM Author: Charismatic Kitchen This dude started to participate in hackathons since he was a freshman in college, so by the time he was a junior he knew a lot more than his professors and got the job with FB. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488534) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:57 PM Author: Buff selfie PSA people who do hackathons as freshmen aren't learning to code as freshmen, they've been doing it a long time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488554) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:57 PM Author: Odious claret station i doubt he knew a lot more than his professors. he may know a lot more about common frameworks used in the industry, but not the theoretical stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488563) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:59 PM Author: Buff selfie why do you keep bringing up his professors, were they also applicants for the FB jobs also most CS profs can't code because CS isn't about coding |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:55 PM Author: Buff selfie the people right out of school who are working for FB/GOOG have very strong credentials from top programs literally all of my friends who went to FB/GOOG/AAPL graduated from one of the two relevant honors programs at UT their coders are not just code monkeys but have strong theoretical CS backgrounds, Google doesn't just pay code monkeys six figures FB's coders are doing things like creating React Redux and React Native, not just building webshites Google is retardedly elite when it comes to hiring coders |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 2:57 PM Author: Charismatic Kitchen This guy graduated from a good place, but not a top program. He was hired as an intern way before he graduated. He had a nice portfolio of hackathons and stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488559) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:00 PM Author: Buff selfie ...and? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488589) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:14 PM Author: Charismatic Kitchen and so you're wrong, lol. No need to come from a top program if you have the skills. Do I need to spell everything out for you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488707) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 4:00 PM Author: Buff selfie (aspie) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34489104) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 6:50 PM Author: canary spectacular ratface What are the relevant honors programs at UT? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34490320) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:01 PM Author: violent bespoke french chef space professional coder here.
your son is smart and talented. getting an internship with them is difficult. it's a lot easier to get hired by FB/GOOG after working full-time in the industry for a few years. He's definitely a top 5% programmer at least |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:13 PM Author: Charismatic Kitchen How do you like being a professional coder? Do you enjoy the job or dread it? Is it worth it for the pay you get? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488694) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:32 PM Author: violent bespoke french chef space It’s the best work I can get for the money. I think I’m overpaid relative to my skill level (no degree self taught). There are some perks like dressing casually and it can be quite “chill” at a good place. It’s also nice that you can just kind of take long periods off and no one really cares. Very easy to change roles or find new work. No licensing requirements etc.
Is it the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done, no. But it gave me a legit profession without having to fuck with grad school |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:15 PM Author: Curious milky stag film jew very few people on this bort, even the coders, would be able to get it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488714) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:21 PM Author: Misanthropic giraffe resort I wouldn't say it's easy, but both those companies hire a TON of people. Presumably some weaker folks slip through. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488762) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:21 PM Author: Odious claret station yes, experienced coders. entry level coders out of college go through a much more rigorous process. hard to fake coding skills. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488767) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:23 PM Author: Misanthropic giraffe resort Well, the interviews are fairly intensive, but there are books to study for them. And they also hire a TON of entry level coders. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488779) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:33 PM Author: violent bespoke french chef space Right, but the “entry level” guys are top 5% wrt algo and General CS knowledge. Vast majority of programmers are ignorant retards (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488861) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 4:01 PM Author: Buff selfie This. CS = engineer, programmer = mr fix it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34489111) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:22 PM Author: bright magical school philosopher-king Is Facebook still mired in PHP? Fuck that, wouldn't even want to work there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488774) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:24 PM Author: Galvanic sandwich what's the best alternative to php nowadays? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488783) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 3:26 PM Author: bright magical school philosopher-king It's just a server side scripting Lang but it's awful, you can use something like Django or Node (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34488797) |
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Date: October 20th, 2017 4:02 PM Author: Buff selfie depends on requirements (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3769758&forum_id=2#34489114) |