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This is my first trip to Bhutan and I am flabbergasted by how gorgeous this country is and how relatively understated it markets itself!

I’ve been hiking around and people I meet everywhere are polite to a fault, there is no honking on the streets, cows and dogs share the road, cats too! Everyone seems relatively happy. Thimpu looks like a huge urban sprawl but minus the traffic and hubub for a city its size.

The whole country everywhere I go looks like someone drew a postcard and breathed it into life. Seriously you people have an amazing thing going here. Treasure it, preserve it! And congrats on being what looks like the last slice of paradise.

Looking thru this board is both awe inspiring and sad.

Most of you are above average smart in a very specific area, highly driven and ridiculously tenacious - all this prep so you can get in front of some random person who on the day can ask any random problem and sub-problems, edge cases and what not. Most of which has no bearing to the day to day rigmarole of what the job actually does.

How many in their day jobs really reinvents a trie from scratch? It’s ridiculous to be treating people this way but this hazing is central to tech recruiting and everyone gets on with it as if it were normal.

What’s worse is the “behavioral” rounds…narrate a time when your Xfn partner’s sock had a tear and what did you do about it? When they changed their shirt how did you react?

End of the day we exchange time for money. Sometimes it’s tons of money - everyone’s chasing that. This is no different than a pyramid scheme or drug runners in the street hoping to make it to the next level. Nothing wrong if you enjoy this truly but most people to paraphrase that great saint Thoreau are living in quiet desperation (projection? Maybe!)

For what it’s worth save up most of what you make while you’re at this circus people. Someday the music will stop, you’ll get jaded or worse, die…when the music truly stops you want an escape hatch - enough money so you don’t have to all subject yourselves to this, unless it’s purely a choice to do so.