I just wanted to interject that my struggle wasn't with interviews, but in suspending disbelief in order to focus and work in ways I didn't believe in. Because I could trivially automate most of the work I'm forced to do, so I struggle to find meaning in work itself. And when I did automate, they just gave me more work at the same pay until I burned out. So it's just as important not to take a job you can walk onto. Work for someone you want to be someday.

My struggles were largely due to moving back to the city nearest to where I grew up after college, which wasn't a tech hub for 20 years, although it's becoming one now. So I've been on a career odyssey. Now most of what I know is obsolete, but I'm having a hard time adapting to my new reality after so many decades of negative reinforcement. I agree with Paul Graham about moving to where the energy is. Network effects are everything.

I think calling FAANG programmers neurotypical is a bold statement.