Big tech is as booming as ever. And it doesn't look like it's slowing down anytime soon.  Even during the COVID pandemic, the FAANG companies have grown their revenue by 50%. And even while every other business was shutting down, they were hiring fast. It's a very popular place to be. After all, you get to work with some of the smartest people in the world on some of the most exciting problems. And you get a nice bit of compensation while doing that.

Of course, it's not entirely straightforward to get one of those jobs. The interview cycles are extremely long and out of over 3 million applications that are submitted to Google each year, they only hire about 20,000 people.

We're talking to Dylan Israel today who was kind enough to lend us some of his time to talk about his way into FAANG and Amazon specifically, and what it took for him as a college dropout and self-taught engineer to make it into that big industry.