I’d hope they come here but get a refresh. /r/cscareeradvice was basically just a circlejerk of you have to grind leetcode and work at faang or you’re useless.

Instead of wrapping it in an optional you can do Objects.requireNonNullElse(value, defaultValue)

In java 9 there is Objects.requireNonNullElse(obj, defaultValue)

And here I am, uninstalled as soon as it gave me the first 429