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And all of their servers run Linux kernel.

Why are we letting Twitter off the hook when it was literally his biggest megaphone? Is it because Twitter is popular with liberals?

I feel like the real issue is that the President of the United States was giving them marching orders. The platform that they happened to use is secondary.

Ability to design and implement a large scale system from the ground up.

The alternative according to HN is to just recognize my genius based on my resume and what my friends say about me, and throw an offer at me.

A take home test is fine as long as it is expected to take < 2 hours. One company expected me to spend a whole day on their test and it's like I'm sorry, I don't have time for that.

The interview is not just about leet code. There's also a behavioral loop and a system design loop, and both of those are extremely important as well. In fact most candidates vastly underestimate their importance.

In my experience the leetcode questions were quite easy from an algorithm standpoint: string operations and traversals and things like that. You are judged not just on correctness but also your communication, requirements gathering, ability to catch edge cases and bugs, and general code quality. In other words, things that are absolutely relevant to the actual job.

Yep, most of their questions are straight out of leetcode.

I feel the same. It's also much more meritocratic. People from no-name schools and no-name companies study leetcode and get into FAANG all the time. Do people really think it would be better to base it on resume and YOE?

Putting up with bullshit is also a desirable characteristic for FAANG

Leetcode problems are good because they select for people who are willing to put in the hours to get good at them. Aka, hard workers. Above all else, what predicts success at a job is work ethic. This is even more true at FAANG.

You have a hard time at Amazon

One thing to note is that FB has two system design interviews. There is an "infrastructure" track and a "product" track. The former is like the classic sys design round described here, but the latter focuses more on APIs and application level design.

Introducing the Facebook phone: just like the Apple phone except it tracks you more. I can't see it working out.

It's a close call between my dislike for Facebook's model, and my dislike for Apple's walled-garden, which this move is absolutely intended to reinforce.

It is perfectly easy to go through life without a Facebook account. Yet people choose to use it. This suggests to me that they feel they are getting some utility out of it.

And who's job is it to decide what's best for the people?

I just googled "Apple Ad platform" lol

Search Ads don't count why?

Getting tired of these melodramatic think pieces.

Check out all these new job postings https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=ads%20platform&so...

Interesting that they are posting a bunch of new reqs for their ads platform

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=ads%20platform&so...

Conflict of interest? Lol. It sounds like he or she has relevant expertise in the matter being discussed. Rare for Hacker News commenters.

Agreed. They provide value to the consumer. They also are good for small businesses. People will scoff, but it's true. Compare them to other companies like Amazon or Uber who's model is to drive small businesses to extinction.

Neither company has pure motives here. Apple just so happens to take a 30% cut of in-app purchases, so they stand to benefit immensely from a change to that model. They also have their own ad platform that will benefit from this.

Both sides are concealing their selfish motivations under the guise of altruism.

I don't understand the point you are trying to make.

> But I’m at the point in life, where I want to work with tech that I enjoy.

Exactly. When people say "You should work on boring tech." my thought is "Mmkay, sure thing buddy, you do you."

A lot of people underestimate what a high scale workload means.

> By the time you actually need to do this you will be able to afford one of these options. :)

What if I need to do this now? Why would I build a distributed postgres snowflake that takes 10 hours to spin up a new replica, requires that I implement my own sharding, instead of using a datastore that is designed to handle all of these things at scale?

I disagree with pretty much everything in your comment.

> NoSQL stores can scale better in certain data access patterns

Exactly.