Well, it's just like every other googamabooksoft company with open floor plans, brightly painted walls, demos of all the crap Dan Gilbert is doing all over the rest of Detroit like new football helmets on display to prevent injury, candy machines everywhere, mock buildings, etc...
Not to mention you are in the same building with other properties like Quicken and Bedrock.
Take a short trip to SF and see if you like it. Keep in mind SF is not what it used to be because of all the techies that live there now. If you really want to see what SF is like go see other areas of SF and eastbay.
Exactly. OP comment is thinking that professionals are the one spending the most money. I strongly disagree without knowing any statistics but I'm going to assume by looking at the sheer number of macbooks that young people have to look at youtube and iphones to have cool photo filters are their major market. Like I said, I don't have any statistics, but I'm willing to put money on it. The ones that have money can afford the high end stuff but they are always not professionals
Have you ever thought that the amount of motivation for money is the issue? In other words, what if the main factor that motivated you to work hard was not money? What if you kept the job but you shifted your motivation on producing impact for other people instead of yourself? To add to your point, even if you do build a successful business, you'll get to a place where you will have this same problem correct of diminishing motivation correct? In summary, I think it is necessary for us to sit down and ask ourselves what are living for?
What I found is that there are some motivators that don't diminish. I'm pursing earning a living fueled by those intrinsic motivators instead of by money, fame, promotions, etc.
I don't know where you are from but most universities in the U.S. teach Java or C++ as primary language. Pretty much everybody in our school used Java as their interview language and due to the leetcode grinding culture, the interviews are not definitely easy. The companies you talk about sound like they suck.
It is easy to write that the company sucks, but the problem isn't that easy.
When you work as a manager for the company and you are presented with a new project you can't say you will not do it. In many companies this will mean you are expected to hire people and to get it out the door.
In most companies incentives are against "we will ACTUALLY only hire best people".
Usually true for graduate hires but lateral hires of experienced devs are more uneven in quality. Where I work, campus recruits are like geniuses, while some experienced engineers are just buzzing through. I remember one of them told me he never used github, after working for 6 months, when we have github enterprise in our own company
This is the struggle and the reality of the competition. You have CTCI and leecode on top of that. Plus, to stand out with recruiters, you also want to contribute to open source code and/or have side projects. All of this on top of full-time school and a part-time job was extremely overwhelming. Now that I'm working full-time it's much more manageable.
Also, luck is hugely important during the interview process of your interviewer and the questions you get.
