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Say that to the parents of the aid workers whose vehicle was used as a bullseye: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68711282
I was just creating a UI with IMGUI library and found it immediately more pleasant to work with. No DOM, no CSS, no HTML. Just C code with a small number of low level abstractions provided by the library.
This. I came in thinking as long as I become as great as possible at engineering, creating useful things and even grinding out algorithm problems it would be enough eventually. Even contributed to a few popular open source repositories. But guess what, in an interview despite acing all the technical questions and programming problems; I ended up being told that despite showing great ability that I "wasn't engaged enough in the interview and were concerned by my motivation".
I literally got told this after my 6th and final interview. At that point I understood, it is not just your ability that matters but how much the interviewer likes you as a person and they can discriminate you for anything without you helping it. I would even bet that even if I were to get the job I would be dealing with office politics seen as it has people like this in there. This was a big tech company.