People say you should work at startups because that's where the interesting work (and money) is. That's backwards! http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ …
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I was thinking about this - it has to be more, right? Looks like 75% chance of getting hired, given the application process. GAFA + MSFT and big startups... Assuming where he applied is a random sample, doesn't that account for more than 5% of all SWE positions?
There's no way it's 1%; seems higher than 5%. There are supposedly ~3m programmers in the U.S. Google alone has ~30k engineers, so that's already 1% just at Google. Given typical interview pass rates (< 10% net), it's plausible that most programmers can get an interview.
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Ok, not all of Google's engineers are in the US, but most are, so that's still *a lot* from a single company and Amazon probably employs a comparable number of engineers (within a factor of 2) and they have a higher fraction in the U.S.
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"OP", I've had multiple people tell me they took a job at one of these places after reading something I wrote. Probably < 1% of people who get a job tell me. Most people don't know what these companies pay (see other replies to me) and don't think they can get an interview.
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