This guy said he became a senior software engineer at Google after quitting his job as a baker with no coding experience

Idk about you guys but that sounds pretty scammy to me

https://tiktok.com/@renderatl/...

Zero experience to senior dev at google? Clearly it’s fabricated.

Also:

@Root lmao I like that photo

I realized the whole page is some recruitment group trying to get people to go to their $750 networking “tech” events

Here’s the caption of another post:

“POV: you took 6mo to teach yourself how to code & now make over $120/yr in an entry level position “

The hardest entry level jobs in software are the ones paying close to that salary. And your telling people that they can get those jobs with only 6months of experience??? Absolutely reduclous

He has an iq of 170, has billionaire parents, or a damn liar. Anyone who says they learned coding in two months and got a senior role/faang role is a super genius, has wealthy parents, or an expert liar

I solved leetcode hards with 5+ years work experience solving business problems. I was turned down by faangs but I guess I’m not as genius as this baker. He has an iq of 170 plus that wasn’t realized yet, or is full of shit

I guess he is a really good baker.
He managed to bribe them with pastries.

What else do you expect from tiktok content

@electrineer it’s all cancer

@TeachMeCode the fangs like to recruit from the major universities not simply because of the education but because if you got in to say MIT or yale, chances are you're already fairly well connected.

Google is a networking hub for cultivating and harvesting the social and political capital of rich and well connected families (*for some definition of 'rich and well connected')

Like the network effect, the more people work there the more this "campus-of-influencers" effect is multiplied.

People get hired through friends of friends. Business arrangements get made through connections. Etc
Order and outcomes emerge seemingly spontaneously.

It's an emerging, (mostly) organic system that sits at the crossroads between castes, incubators, and guild system.

View it from that angle, and you have a clear understanding of the social dynamics and psychology in play, and thus the key to climb the ladder.

Basically it's a wannabe hive mind.

Campus culture, when insular enough, always is.