@ChrisCox-wv7oo
"do leetcode AND maintain a 70k star repo" These requirements are out of control
@x.liquilite.x5435
"I work in a 30 year old Java codebase" Prime: "ACHUALLY its only 28.5 years old. PWND" lmao
@rocstar3000
You know a good content creator when he makes a 13 minutes video into 40.
@mykelism_
"Before doing that, I want you to write a technical document about how one would go about doing it..." is the greatest summary of the FAANG experience.
@joelmartinez625
Hard disagree on 401K, as long as your employer plan doesn’t have random extra fees and you have access to low cost total market indices, S&P500, etc. then makes more sense to put money there vs an individual brokerage account due to tax advantages. If you have access to some highly profitable real estate investment, or some other unique opportunity maybe that’s better but don’t think that’s the case with most people. Just need to ride the index until retirement, and minimize taxes while doing so.
@David-gj6dc
I now work at a large tech company in Tokyo, Japan and I took a decent pay cut to come live here at the time. Considering the exchange rate, I now make about half what I did in America. But like Prime mentioned cost of living is what really matters. Everything is adjusted based on the exchange rate and at the end of the day I still get to save a decent percentage of my income. It would just suck if I ever decide to move back to America as I would be severely behind compared to where I could have been (unless the exchange rate recovers)
@shredder4841
No one wants to admit that Netflix really shouldn't be considered FAANG anymore.
@TQuantP
9:59 - The moment an American gets an existential dread just from the fact that Europe exists and we have all inclusive social security just because we pay taxes 🤣 (for all nay-sayers, yeah we occasionally have slightly higher taxation, but only for the high income individuals and that's about 2-4% more on average across all EU countries)
@FabulousFadz
4:59 regarding brainteaser questions, I got one a long time ago in an interview. I thought it was ridiculous so I gave a snarky answer but it turned out to be correct. They asked me, "How much apple juice can you get out a thousand apples?". I said there's no standard size for apples so you'll get a thousand apples worth of apple juice. I have never liked such questions. At another place I was asked to find 10 non standard uses for a paper clip.
@jeremiedubuis5058
The US pays a lot more than any other country on healthcare. A little GPT magic: In 2021, the healthcare cost per capita in the United States was $12,914. This amount was more than double the average for other comparably large and wealthy countries, which was around $6,003. By comparison, Germany, the country with the second-highest healthcare spending per capita, was at $7,383 Furthermore, taxes make it non optional and everyone gets access. But yeah I had two kids in the last 4 years and besides the taxes I paid a total of 50€ to stay at my wife's side for the THREE days she was in the hospital for a 0 complication natural birth. In the meantime my sister in the US paid over 20k and didn't stay a night in the hospital though she'd been through hell.
@Cata12345
Yup, worst job I had was not faang. It was a popular remote work company (pre Covid) and I was putting in 9am-(10pm~12am) every single day including weekends for about 4 or 5 months. Shit was hell and of course no overtime pay. Never, ever, EVER let your PM’s and Managers decide project deadlines without any engineer input or allow them to take on a project from a contractor who got fired who did not get a good deadline set. Just leave it’s not worth it.
@ZDoherty
34:42 the N is for NVIDIA
@dameneko
Cap on whoever said they were working on a "30 year old Java codebase" -- Java also changed their event model in the late 90s. And it took a good 5-10 years to get out of the "crapplet" era and be a viable, if bulky, enterprise application programming language.
@christopherparke9878
I did a photo on the resume when I was junior. I thought a snappy design would be impressive, but it turned out people wanted a uniform black and white resume that stood out based on content, not layout.
@Desmodious
On the healthcare, I get to pay less tax and have health care because of economys of scale. In stead of 60 different companies doing basicly the same thing, 1 big company does it. You still have the smaller insurance companies for the more specific cases but for the most part your covered for whatever and its just cheaper.
@niamhleeson3522
Paying tons for health insurance is an America moment. Insurance companies have a lot of overhead in administration and executive compensation that is duplicated between every insurance company. Single payer would represent a tax increase but that increase would be less than the amount you pay for private insurance for these reasons among others.
@Mike..
I'm on board with 99% of your takes, but last time I checked rentals and roth IRA are not better than a 401k. In most cases, your tax bracket is going to be higher when you're older and looking to draw down on your 401k in which case a Roth 401k is probably the way to go. It's essentially the same as putting the money into the stock market except you don't need to manage it separately from your retirement fund, so you can have it taken directly out of your paycheck and not have to worry about it.
@stephenreaves3205
I love when Prime discusses issues with San Francisco and someone says, "American Moment". Like that's literally a single city
@nexovec
0:11 no, that's actually what FAANG salary is if you didn't spend your money in America
@Trezker