I don't think you sound stubborn, I think lots of people think the same way. Wishing you the best of luck in your search.
> I'm not a good enough software engineer to do complex stuff (think: very high load, distributed, etc) - so I can't pass interviews to all the FAANG…
I think you can break six figs in pretty much any metro area of US. Might need a couple years of experience in areas with low tech demand, but in major cities (SF, LA, NYC), I would expect the average new grad offer to…
I took Andrew Ng's Coursera ML course but I think it's a bit out of date now. I've heard good things about https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html to learn AI/ML. Most tech interviews will have a leetcode component, so I…
It will help, but you won't be able to totally level the playing field. For entry level, recruiters get thousands of candidates. They skim each resume for 30s to decide who to bring on to interview and usually don't…
The timeline is largely a function of how talented you are and how hard you work. If you can maintain the rigor and pace of an undergraduate CS degree by yourself, you'll be fine. But I think that's really hard to do,…
1) Not everyone can cook, but great cooks can come from anywhere. SWE @ FAANG is a high bar, not everyone can reach it. Being older will make it more difficult. But it is not impossible and the only way to find out is…
I don't think you sound stubborn, I think lots of people think the same way. Wishing you the best of luck in your search.
> I'm not a good enough software engineer to do complex stuff (think: very high load, distributed, etc) - so I can't pass interviews to all the FAANG…
I think you can break six figs in pretty much any metro area of US. Might need a couple years of experience in areas with low tech demand, but in major cities (SF, LA, NYC), I would expect the average new grad offer to…
I took Andrew Ng's Coursera ML course but I think it's a bit out of date now. I've heard good things about https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html to learn AI/ML. Most tech interviews will have a leetcode component, so I…
It will help, but you won't be able to totally level the playing field. For entry level, recruiters get thousands of candidates. They skim each resume for 30s to decide who to bring on to interview and usually don't…
The timeline is largely a function of how talented you are and how hard you work. If you can maintain the rigor and pace of an undergraduate CS degree by yourself, you'll be fine. But I think that's really hard to do,…
1) Not everyone can cook, but great cooks can come from anywhere. SWE @ FAANG is a high bar, not everyone can reach it. Being older will make it more difficult. But it is not impossible and the only way to find out is…