Ask HN: Advice for a Senior Front End Developer Aspiring to Join FAANG

Secondly, front-end development from a pure programming perspective is less stable (with the rise of AI-assisted development) than the ability to communicate with stakeholders; you may have a superpower that you are in fact under-selling.

Open-source projects are probably your best opportunity to demonstrate your skillset, with NDA-free client projects your second-best opportunity.

* Grind out leetcode medium and can do those well

* Know your way around some fundamentals - i.e if you understand how React works under the hood and can code in raw Javascript for some advanced features, you will be fine

* Have industry experience where you demonstrate self motivation to solve problems, or show off your personal projects that actually get use.

I used to work at Amazon, and have 200+ interviews under my belt. The three most common causes for non inclined decisions are

- inability to reason through coding problems. Most of the time, getting stuck is really not even a big issue, the bigger issue is if I give you a hint, and you are unable to comprehend what is being said and then reason through it to arrive a at a solution

- experience falls into "I show up to work, do what Im told, go home". I.e no critical thinking being demonstrated

- any of the tech that you talk about is very superficial. For example, following common practices for training ML models with pytorch isn't you having knowledge of ML.