Is it actually an IQ test? Can you practice for an iq test like you can for an interview? I don't see it being that difficult to just grind on leetcode enough to snag a FAANG job.
It's not that difficult for people smart enough to get a FAANG job. Personally, I've heard anecdotes from people who can't understand leetcode problems even when given the solution. Professionally, I've seen multiple people who were clearly trying to recite a memorized solution for an interview problem, but just weren't clever enough to do it properly or talk about how it works.
For all the complaints about whiteboarding, it does filter out a lot of people who can't seem to generalize problems or are weak at either problem solving or coding. I don't see how anyone who has given technical interviews could say whiteboarding is a waste of time, unless they are not good enough at whiteboarding to be able to productively give such an interview.
Nope, it's more of a case of software engineers stroking their own egos. Grinding leetcode is the prime example of that - developers worshipping crystallized knowledge when the IQ test is supposed to test for how quickly someone can learn rather than relying on rote.
yep, I come from a really small town in India, and I see everyone using Zoom suddenly, the mobile app is all over the town, all business meetings, family meetups, schools, everyone is using Zoom all of a sudden.
Hypothetically, if people just got off their devices, wouldn't this entire digital arms race disappear? No phones. Not even computers except the bare necessity use.
You know I think the thing is with some billionaires, they don't have to be useful for society to become a billionaire, they don't have to be moral, that don't even have to be smart.
Often they just have to be "charismatic", better at lying, better at cheating, less moral, etc.
WeWork was never a good business, seems like he was just a massive narcissist who managed to trick the SoftBank guy (notorious for investing from the gut) into giving him billions.
So if we have a system that rewards ruthlessness, dishonesty, cheating, stealing etc, that's what we get at the top.
From what I've observed, the very rich don't generally "watch" much at all. For example, Gates, Buffet, and Musk are all widely reported to read voraciously. Its almost impossible to have a big TV watching habit and also a big book habit. As for the rest of your verbs, I'd expect the spread to so wide as to be unusable in forming a singular data point. While certainly having access to institutions I could never approach, even billionaires have been known to eat McD's, and I'm sure that Bezos has eaten at Whole Foods. They're just people, after all.
IRC is great, but I've never thought of it as protecting my privacy. It's definitely public and almost always logged by a myriad of bots if not the server.
