>a 25 year-old developer is the same as a 50 year-old developer, but at half the cost and without the hassles of things like kids to take care of
Bunt functionally this is correct. If they are both "Senior Devs" they're going to be roughly equivalent. If you are 50 and haven't gotten architect/tech-lead/principal roles etc. you're probably at your ceiling and you aren't really going to be much more valuable than that 25 year old.
>But if you frame it as a 10% pay decrease in exchange for a 20% reduction in how much of your life is devoted to work, it suddenly becomes a lot less palatable.
If some avg Google Seattle employee was making 250k and that got reduced to 225K I don't think their life materially changes in any way. You aren't going to retire significantly faster, you aren't going to be priced out of your home, you aren't going to have to change your lifestyle really in any way I'd think so what's the possible downside?
Except the boss has no incentive to pay you more when he could just give minimum raises. In fact he probably has an anti-incentive when he can point to more revenue generated for less labor costs.
This is a braindead opinion. Why would anyone work as hard as possible when there are 0 incentives to do so? When at any moment you could be fired without warning in a mass layoff and when even the highest performers only get 5-10% raises per year when jumping ship gives you 20%+ . You want good work then create the incentives for it, currently there are none.
>Makes a lot of sense, you could solve all these questions without knowing specific algorithms as long as you are good at problem solving - which is, I assume, the intent of the process.
That's just absurd. If someone with no "algorithm" experience who was a good problem solver had to work out an answer from scratch for the interview its almost certain they're going to find the brute force answer and FAANGs pretty universally want the most efficient one so these people would routinely fail.
Its totally clear that what FAANG hiring optimizes for is recent CS graduates who passed tough Algorithm weed out courses at well known colleges in the past 18-24 months. They are young with no families or obligations and are happy to work 12 hour days at Google because they have hip open offices and ping pong tables.
>While it may look different, this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT and being told they are incorrect on their assumptions about topic X.
C. and D. are both false, you are free to take the Moderna, Astra-Zeneca or J&J Vaccines, particularly J&J if you have insane worries about safety since it is an old fashioned viral vector vaccine. The choice is of course yours and no where in the US constitution do you have a right to work wherever you want or enter private businesses at will.