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> Speaking from my perspective as a prolific FAANG interviewer

That's interesting, and somewhat rankling - as both times I interviewed at the G in FAANG, not a single interviewer gave a nickel about any of my experience, or projects I had worked on.

It's such a joke that the keys to a golden line on your resume and a giant salary are gated by the luck of which 7 people get picked to grill you that day, how busy they currently are, and what their pet question is.



Not to justify it the way things are but to share a bit of my philosophy:

Job hunts are a campaign. If you're pretty good you'll land a job but you might not land every job.

While this varies from company to company generally resumes get you interviews and interviews get you jobs.

Even if you have a 95% pass rate for any one interviewer, you're at like 77% for passing a 5 person panel. Good but hardly a guarantee.

But if you have even three job interviews, the chance that you'll get atleast one is 98.7%. Not so bad!

Sure it's a bit hand-wavy but I hope it takes the edge off this interviewing business for you the way it does for me.

Cheers!




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