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My urge to work for FAANG company is faded away. Being in my late 30s I don;t want to grind leetcode anymore. I had interviews in Apple/Google/Facebook and I felt luck played a huge part of that. I got some live coding questions that prepared the day before and I aced them and in some cases I practiced so much and couldn;t even write more than 10 lines of code.



Luck def plays a big role. That's why you should keep going at it if that's what you want. The financial peace of mind makes it worth it.


This is changing. Mass layoffs and bias against FAANG employees is real, I wouldn’t feel so secure.




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