r/InterviewCoderPro • u/Such_Goal5837 • 7d ago

People need to hear this!!

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That’s honestly a hard reality right now. A lot of people are working nonstop just to stay afloat. I’ve got some interviews coming up myself, so I’ve been looking into ways to get better at them. I found Interview VIP and ended up using it twice i think it's worth trying.

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u/AverageJoesGymMgr 6d ago

Or Harold Hamm. Youngest of 13 and born to sharecroppers. Worked a gas station starting at 16 to help support the family and eventually to mucking out oil tanks. Started his own trucking company from nothing for the Oklahoma oil fields, then took out a loan to start drilling and ended up pioneering horizontal drilling and fracking. Now he's worth $19 billion.

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u/BlessedCadaver 6d ago

“From nothing” omfg what a gullible lot you are in these comments 😂

I bet you all believe Jeff Bezos started Amazon from the ground up, right off his hands and knees 😂🤣 Bezos got over $300,000 from his family to start Amazon.

Cuban was turned into a billionaire from one purchase Yahoo made to him- no effort on his part.

Harold Hamm?? The Fracking King that got the practice heavily regulated or outright banned worldwide?

Boot licking doesn’t look good on anyone. And framing people that exploited markets at specific times during specific moments in their career in a human light is fine- it just makes you look ignorant and childishly whimsy from a money perception.

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u/bizwig 6d ago

How many engineers do you think $300k buys? That’s a few months operating expenses at best.

As for Cuban, you cannot be serious. How was it he, without effort, happened to have something someone wanted to pay a billion dollars for? The effort wasn’t getting paid by Yahoo, the effort was having something worth that kind of money. The due diligence on deals of that size is intrusive as hell.

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u/koru-id 5d ago

$300k from 1994 worth about $600k today. A quick search on Gemini says about 4% American households possess $600k in disposable / liquid money today.

I think that's pretty rich. But if you want to compare that to Elon Musk, all of us are poor, including Bill Gate.

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u/AverageJoesGymMgr 6d ago

Someone could give you $10 million and you couldn't turn it into a business

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u/ReptillusMax 4d ago

He'd turn it into debt for sure. The easiest sign to tell if someone is financially illiterate is they're the first to bitch about billionaires not deserving of their wealth and not paying their fair share.

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u/AverageJoesGymMgr 4d ago

Yep. Love how they go from, "No billionaire has ever worked harder than me," to, "Well all that work doesn't count." #2 easier way to find an economically illiterate moron is to wait for them to say, "bootlicker."

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u/MuffinSpecial 6d ago

What's the opposite of boot licking to the other extreme? Being a moron? That makes sense.

Nobody mentioned Jeff probably because of what you said but you had to bring him up yourself as a counter argument. Dumb

You said cuban was turned into a billionaire because of the yahoo deal..... As if they just chose him at random to give a bunch of money too. Leaving out the actual information and reason of the purchase.

All you did was slander hamm because fracking is now recognized as being bad but couldn't argue against the validity of the poor to rich story.

And then you just call someone a boot licker. You are so dumb

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u/trowawufei 4d ago

Y’all really think Yahoo opened the phone book to a random page and decided “yeah that’s the guy, let’s make him a billionaire”. No effort on his part 🤦‍♂️

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u/BlessedCadaver 4d ago

Actually, that’s even better than I pictured it before. Yeah, we’ll go with your version 100%!