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Discussion on: Thoughts on Interviewing at Big Tech Companies

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Eljay-Adobe

Thank you for sharing the tale of your journey! Sharing your doubts, fears, and emotions like that is not an easy thing. I appreciate you candor.

I've a friend who works at Google. He loves it there. He's not one to say that lightly, so to me that speaks volumes of how awesome the company culture is there.

He doesn't have that same reaction regarding working at Microsoft. (Before Google, he worked at Microsoft.)

Since you had interviewed with Mojang, was that before or after Microsoft? Since you have .NET background, I think you'd find JVM to be very comparable, and .NET skills correspond well with JVM (and vice-versa). Since Mojang was acquired Microsoft, I ponder if they will (or are) porting from JVM to .NET. The potential backlash from the modding community may be a showstopper, though.

If you still work on .NET, I urge you to try your hand at F# with The Book of F#. If you haven't done FP before, it is a real eye-opener. If you have done FP before with other languages, F# will impress you with how syntactically awesome it is. More-or-less, F# is OCaml for .NET.

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Jaime González García

Thank you for sharing the tale of your journey! Sharing your doubts, fears, and emotions like that is not an easy thing. I appreciate you candor.

Thank you! :D Glad that you appreciate it! I thought it would be helpful for other people struggling with the same doubts and fears to hear it like it is.

I've a friend who works at Google. He loves it there. He's not one to say that lightly, so to me that speaks volumes of how awesome the company culture is there.

Very Yes! It definitely is an amazing place to work at.

Since you had interviewed with Mojang, was that before or after Microsoft?

Sorry if I misrepresented it. At the time Mojang had already been acquired by Microsoft. The Microsoft recruiter that contacted me was for a position at Mojang.

If you still work on .NET, I urge you to try your hand at F# with The Book of F#. If you haven't done FP before, it is a real eye-opener. If you have done FP before with other languages, F# will impress you with how syntactically awesome it is. More-or-less, F# is OCaml for .NET.

I don't work with .NET anymore but I do own that book (sitting cozy in the shelf waiting for me XD). I've been planning to write a book on FP in JavaScript for ages and I want to dive fully into FP and languages like F# and Haskell to make the most awesome book evah. :D Thanks for the tip!