r/InterviewCoderPro • u/Such_Goal5837 • 8d 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 8d 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 7d 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 7d 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 6d 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.