On: Things that used to be hard and are now easy

[FearlessNebula]

I would argue getting a job is easier now. Prior to whiteboarding and take home assignments, if you didn’t go to a top tier target school and have excellent 3.5+ GPA it was really difficult to even get your foot in the door for an interview.

[sarchertech → FearlessNebula]

When was this? Maybe If you’re talking exclusively about FAANG.

[FearlessNebula → sarchertech]

I’m too young to know from my own experience but from what I’ve heard early 2000s.

[sarchertech → FearlessNebula]

I was around in the early 2000s, and you certainly didn’t need a 3.5 GPA from a top tier school for anything but a very small handful of companies.

In the early 2000s, you could get decent work just knowing HTML.