rajs123

Why is Goodreads so bad and the only product out there for book reviews (which is sort of popular). It feels like something developed in ye' old times and barely maintained to this date. Any Goodreads developer in the audience, do you have any insight on this?

During my undergrad years, I had never travelled to US/UK/Europe. During my final years, while interviewing for FAANG, I was asked to design an elevator system. Of course, I did not know about the type of elevators where you need to enter floor number first and you are assigned elevator number separately. I went ahead and started designing for elevators I had seen with up and down buttons.

Later, I received feedback that I did not ask for clarification. I am sharing this today so that interviewers out there are also mindful of the culture and background of candidates before judging them.

I am in one of the FAANG companies now where I have the most amazing manager and frequently discuss drawbacks in the current interview system and this has helped us build an amazing team.

What are the best ways to start a startup as a non-US resident? Some possible options (I am not sure about the validity of them all): - Get a CEO having a green card and register yourself with some other position? - Come to US with L1A visa to get green card quickly

Do you know how did top companies with non-US founders deal with this? (e.g: Stripe). As far as I know Stripe has Irish founders. Also, I think Romesh Wadhwani of Symphony Group completed PhD in US and later worked to get Symphony started.