On: Coding interviews are stupid (ish)

[varjag]

I dunno man. A good third of my class seems to be working at FAANG and we're all from an unremarkable university in Eastern Europe. I'd imagine the prospects are much better if you start in the States already.

[pseudalopex → varjag]

The official estimate of software developer positions in the United States was 1,656,880 in 2023.[1] 10% of that would be a high estimate of FAANG software developers in all countries. And most in those companies make less.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm

[varjag → pseudalopex]

A high estimate? Google alone stands at 180k employees. I'd imagine at least a half of those are technical positions.

[pseudalopex → varjag]

Technical positions is more than software engineers. 60,000 software engineers was the most I saw. And most other technical positions pay less.