faangterview-preparation-course VS lgtm-shipit

visit the repo to get your "homework" for the week and stay connected (https://github.com/AlexChesser/faangterview-preparation-course)

So it took a few days for what you said to sink in. And there were a few other information sources that combined together to bring me to the conclusion that you're right.

I've actually started writing a self-study course on passing the FAANG, as a trained educator with a bachelor of Education and five years experience as a high school teacher, I think I can make a fair shake at designing a series of free learning materials on the subject.

I started inviting people along and have built up a list of about 20 people who've at least SAID they'll stop by to my live streams (once a week) to discuss the problems of the week.

It's going to be a structured course https://github.com/AlexChesser/faangterview-preparation-cour... I'll be releasing under MIT.

I don't know that the switch would have flipped in my head about the ROI of the FAANG interview.

As I said, it took a couple days to actually sink it but you have completely changed my mind. I now completely agree with you that they are worth doing for a number of reasons, many of which aren't financial at all.

I see them as equivalent to the Bar exam for Lawyers now. Would you hire a lawyer who said "I don't believe in the bar?" (I think we've seen how that played out with the Kraken lawsuit!)

Would you go to a hospital that said "We don't believe that doctors need to have done the USMLE"?

In both cases hell no!

You're right. This is not arbitrary or cruel, it's just a professional qualification. Sure there's some luck involved, there's the chance of personality conflict. There's all sorts of potential downsides... but there's also the upside.

Being better at my craft overall is the ultimate reward. If I'm a better developer overall, the money will follow regardless of whether I get in to a FAANG

Hey Dave!

I've recently started a podcast where I talk to developers about their experiences in programming, career advice, their thoughts, hopes and visions for the future of technology.

I wonder if you'd be interested in telling your story in a more long-form interview format (that gets recorded and posted online).

You can get a sense of the format by looking through the work I've already done: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1SKRYr2Emfbas-8ZA9GYng

I think your story is pretty compelling and I'd love to help share it with a wider audience.

Though in all fairness, I'm sitting at 41 subscribers as of this moment, so reasonably speaking I should say "share with an audience which is expected to grow wider in the future"

If you're interested, feel free to reach out on any of the contact channels listed here: https://github.com/AlexChesser/lgtm-shipit or even just open an issue directly in the repo and we can coordinate!

Here's the github repo with ongoing updates and information https://github.com/AlexChesser/lgtm-shipit/

You can watch my first video (& camera test) here to get a sense of what I'm trying to do and if you have any feedback that you think I should act on, you can always open an issue: https://github.com/AlexChesser/lgtm-shipit

Note: I wanted to thank you again for these data points. I appreciate that you didn't have to put that effort in and I have now officially decided to go with "lgtm: shipit"

And I even made an issue in the github repo to thank you for this effort.

https://github.com/AlexChesser/lgtm-shipit/issues/15

I expect this repo to be a really good place to write readmes, articles in the wiki, put the transcripts, if at some point I get enough money to pay github for LFS ... maybe I even upload the raw content? I have to think about that last bit because I'm considering just going with the MIT license so maybe I don't want my raw content released under MIT.

Who knows? It seems a lot more appropriate to put a programmer-podcast into github than a wordpress blog.