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Comment by edoceo

13 hours ago

Annecdata: 1996-1999 was super easy, one round start next Monday. 2000-2003 difficult. Easy again until 2008. Hard till 2013. No data since then.

What I hear about today seems crazy hard.

Late '90s were crazy easy compared to anything since. If you could demonstrate any amount of technical skill you were in.

  • Shortly before the .com bust, I was offered a job if I was willing to drop out of college.

  • I got my first job by meeting someone on a train Thursday night and starting on Monday morning! (1998)