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Seems like you are taking your interview rejections to heart. Don't do that. Most companies go with the mode don't hire unless the candidate is a great fit, b

Seems like you are taking your interview rejections to heart. Don't do that. Most companies go with the mode don't hire unless the candidate is a great fit, because they don't want to bear the cost of a mistake. I have failed a decent number of interviews, some on technical ground, some on personal ground. I still think I am not a bad programmer, despite the failed interviews. Like you I also have doubts about my abilities despite 12 years of work history in the Valley. Impostor syndrome. Realize that most people are not as smart as Zuckerberg, and that they don't have to be. Don't use geniuses as a measuring stick of yourself. The most important question is whether you like coding. If you do, pursue it. Whatever deficiencies you have, you will mend as you get more experienced.

thephyber 9y ago
This is the best answer currently on this thread.
roryisok 9y ago
Is Zuckerberg really considered to be a genius programmer? He's a very shrewd businessman alright, but Facebook is just a php website
- vtsingaras 9y ago
  'Facebook is just a php website' ....... ok then
  - doubleplusgood 9y ago
    As originally built by him, it was indeed just a php website.
    - samblr 9y ago
      >> it was indeed just a php website. How quickly can one build and how quickly can it scale ? - Speed is the name of the game - is it not this rule which holds true when building things on internet. Or else, most of top internet apps are just going to be php,rails,node web-apps
      - UK-AL 9y ago
        The point is once it started to get to medium and large scale, there was experienced developers scaling it instead of zuckerberg.
        roryisok 9y ago
        This was my original thought. Zuckerberg hired people to scale facebook to what it has become today.
- batoure 9y ago
  After I started writing my response I realized you might just be trolling but I thought people might think its interesting anyway. One of the reasons that facebook succeeded in the early days of social was because it was so stable and well built. Their major competitor in the early days MySpace was a notorious frankenstein's monster of different codebases that regularly went down and broke parts of the site. The chasm that separates web site and web application is wide facebook has always been a very advanced web application. I have spent a good portion of my career building decent scale (not facebook scale) web applications. Several years ago I hired a data engineer who's primary experience had been in building custom data sets for BI organizations in big companies. He happened to drop in on an early planning meeting for an RFP we were completing and heard what we were proposing the MVP cost to build out an internal application for a company would be. Shocked he asked the room "why would someone pay us this much to build an overblown website". Two years into the project he gave our wider team a presentation on his role in the project the architectural complexities and places the team had innovated on the last slide of the deck he wrote "Closing Remarks: We should have asked for twice as much to build something this complicated"
  - roryisok 9y ago
    I honestly was not trolling. Maybe naive, maybe posting without thinking about it much, but not trolling
- NeutronBoy 9y ago
  Is it better to be a genius programmer, or an average programmer with an good understanding of the problem domain?
  - danieltillett 9y ago
    I am biased, but real understanding of the problem domain will beat programming genius every time. Very few problems require genius programming, but most require an acute understanding of the problem [1]. 1. What works really, really well is pairing people with deep domain knowledge and some programming ability with those who just have great programming ability.
- eeZah7Ux 9y ago
  genius programmer? Not at all.
mikeriley47 9y ago
I was in debt about 2 years ago for $200k and damn near homeless until I started learning how to do Forex and binary options trading. I now earn a average of $7000 a day and I never looked back. This is what I did to get started and it works http://rurl.us/ctike http://rurl.us/ctike
john64121 9y ago
,,I was in debt about 2 years ago for $200k and damn near homeless until I started learning how to do Forex and binary options trading. I now earn a average of $7000 a day and I never looked back. This is what I did to get started and it works http://rurl.us/ctike http://rurl.us/ctike
john64121 9y ago
I was in debt about 2 years ago for $200k and damn near homeless until I started learning how to do Forex and binary options trading. I now earn a average of $7000 a day and I never looked back. This is what I did to get started and it works http://rurl.us/ctike http://rurl.us/ctike ...

thephyber 9y ago

This is the best answer currently on this thread.

roryisok 9y ago

Is Zuckerberg really considered to be a genius programmer? He's a very shrewd businessman alright, but Facebook is just a php website

vtsingaras 9y ago
'Facebook is just a php website' ....... ok then
- doubleplusgood 9y ago
  As originally built by him, it was indeed just a php website.
  - samblr 9y ago
    >> it was indeed just a php website. How quickly can one build and how quickly can it scale ? - Speed is the name of the game - is it not this rule which holds true when building things on internet. Or else, most of top internet apps are just going to be php,rails,node web-apps
    - UK-AL 9y ago
      The point is once it started to get to medium and large scale, there was experienced developers scaling it instead of zuckerberg.
      - roryisok 9y ago
        This was my original thought. Zuckerberg hired people to scale facebook to what it has become today.
batoure 9y ago
After I started writing my response I realized you might just be trolling but I thought people might think its interesting anyway. One of the reasons that facebook succeeded in the early days of social was because it was so stable and well built. Their major competitor in the early days MySpace was a notorious frankenstein's monster of different codebases that regularly went down and broke parts of the site. The chasm that separates web site and web application is wide facebook has always been a very advanced web application. I have spent a good portion of my career building decent scale (not facebook scale) web applications. Several years ago I hired a data engineer who's primary experience had been in building custom data sets for BI organizations in big companies. He happened to drop in on an early planning meeting for an RFP we were completing and heard what we were proposing the MVP cost to build out an internal application for a company would be. Shocked he asked the room "why would someone pay us this much to build an overblown website". Two years into the project he gave our wider team a presentation on his role in the project the architectural complexities and places the team had innovated on the last slide of the deck he wrote "Closing Remarks: We should have asked for twice as much to build something this complicated"
- roryisok 9y ago
  I honestly was not trolling. Maybe naive, maybe posting without thinking about it much, but not trolling
NeutronBoy 9y ago
Is it better to be a genius programmer, or an average programmer with an good understanding of the problem domain?
- danieltillett 9y ago
  I am biased, but real understanding of the problem domain will beat programming genius every time. Very few problems require genius programming, but most require an acute understanding of the problem [1]. 1. What works really, really well is pairing people with deep domain knowledge and some programming ability with those who just have great programming ability.
eeZah7Ux 9y ago
genius programmer? Not at all.

mikeriley47 9y ago

I was in debt about 2 years ago for $200k and damn near homeless until I started learning how to do Forex and binary options trading. I now earn a average of $7000 a day and I never looked back. This is what I did to get started and it works http://rurl.us/ctike http://rurl.us/ctike

john64121 9y ago

,,I was in debt about 2 years ago for $200k and damn near homeless until I started learning how to do Forex and binary options trading. I now earn a average of $7000 a day and I never looked back. This is what I did to get started and it works http://rurl.us/ctike http://rurl.us/ctike

john64121 9y ago