Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development?

📰 Hacker News · sage76

I have been in the field for a few years, mostly doing backend development. I'll preface this by saying this field has never been my passion, just a profession I like. I have been having an extremely difficult time with getting and clearing interviews. Screening rounds have become at least 2-3 hour long algorithm solving sessions which can range from dumb (requiring me to know some syntax that I am not allowed to look up) to extremely demanding. System design rounds require me to solve problems that the top engineers in the world spend months on. One question I was asked was "How do you make sure that a celebrity's tweet reaches all of her followers in less than 3 seconds?". I had no idea, I have never handled that kinda scale. In fact most of my work experience is kinda vanilla and boring, so I generally have nothing much to draw on or much to talk about. Also, I'm not talking about FAANGs here. I never even applied to them. I apply to basic CRUD development r

Published 13 Sept 2020
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