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How to Get into FAANG Despite Career Gaps, No Experience & No CS Degree
All you need is the hunger and the thirst to code
Work with the best people and never lose your passion for the job!
These days, companies do not care about an Ivy League college degree, years of experience, employment gaps, and age — unless you go through the traditional job recruitment process (submit a resume, wait for a response — all the best).
In this article, I explain how you can get a job in FAANG without any of the abovementioned qualifications.
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Regardless of whether you have a gap in your career (or multiple gaps), not enough years of experience, your age, your nationality, or even if you don’t have a degree (not even a Bachelor’s):
Companies prefer code monkeys with poor credentials over postgraduates who cannot code (that’s real, believe it or not).
- Can you code well with experience in remarkable projects on an online portfolio?
- Do you know how to write clean code with full test coverage?
- Have you been practicing your DSA skills from the basic to the advanced?
