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Good shot, but this doesn't really add anything to the post, does it?
by praneshp 10y ago
Good shot, but this doesn't really add anything to the post, does it?
- MegaButts 10y agoIt adds humor.
- pfarrell 10y agoWelcome to Hacker News. Take your humor elsewhere.
- monksy 10y agoHacker news voters are very harsh about humor.
- dasil003 10y agoThe original comment has positive rep because it's actually pretty good. What HN doesn't like is a wall of memes and in-jokes that are actually pretty repetitive and boring. Without a high bar for humor that is what all tech communities will devolve to, witness Slashdot, Reddit, etc.
- mack73 10y agoWhat all HN readers know and need is a good balance of humourous as well as serious content. Humor is not easy. We should cut humor-aspirers some slack and never vote while angry.
- MegaButts 10y agoI agree with you in principle, but even as someone who regularly gets downvoted trying to make jokes, I understand the derision towards humor here. The problem is people just aren't as funny as they think they are, and at the same time jokes often derail the conversation. While HN isn't perfect, I think overall it's extremely well moderated. Although I have to admit (and I have other accounts which are much older, so I'm not new here), it does seem to be slowly slipping in the wrong direction as it becomes more popular.
- wst_ 10y agoWhat is the point of having a multiple accounts?
- MegaButts 10y agoOne of them isn't anonymous.
- wst_ 10y agoThat's obvious. Maybe my question was no direct enough. Are you afraid to state your own opinions? I mean, you are still more or less anonymous, at least for average reader.
- MegaButts 10y agoI used to do so and then people would complain to me in person, so I made another account. An obvious example of why you'd want another account - what if you wanted to say something critical about an employer? The reason I made another account after that is this account specifically seems to have its comments automatically moved down the list. It's easy to find examples where upvoted comments sit below grayed out comments, and oftentimes when I post a new comment it immediately starts at the bottom of the pile.
- Razengan 10y agoI personally don't want a clone of Reddit when it's open in the next tab.
- jvln 10y agoFun killer
- praneshp 10y agoThe reason i didn't like this particular brand was that it's at the expense of the OP, who I presumed was tense about the interview. At the time I commented, there was 1 useful answer and this useless (and funny, but not that original, there is a interview-bashing thread once in two days) one was at the top.
- cableshaft 10y agoI didn't intend it to be at the expense of the OP. If anything it was meant to be at the expense of Google. Although I wasn't trying to be malicious about it.
- gberger 10y agoIt humorously states that it is no different than a standard Google interview, which does add value to the post.
- cableshaft 10y agoMore seriously, I was brought in for an iOS app development job interview and I was asked all algorithm questions and nothing about iOS. I also tried doing the whiteboard questions in my strongest language at the time, Objective-C, which in hindsight was a huge mistake (Objective-C is ridiculously wordy, I kept running out of space on the whiteboard). A couple of the interviewers said they weren't too familiar with Objective-C either, so I clearly wasn't getting interviewed by their iOS teams. If I were to do it again I'd probably use a much more terse language like Python.
- thearn4 10y ago> I was brought in for an iOS app development job interview > A couple of the interviewers said they weren't too familiar with Objective-C either, so I clearly wasn't getting interviewed by their iOS teams. Google's onboarding process is such an enigma to me. I went through a few of the remote interviews for SWE a few years back (I didn't commit to an on-site one in mountain view though). It seemed very odd to me that, near as I could tell, they don't really give an indication about what you would be working on until after you are hired and oriented.
- ptasci67 10y agoI actually prefer the way Google does it. They are really looking for generalists and the process is optimized for that. Once they have determined you have met the hiring bar, then they proceed with a "matching" process which is awesome. You get to list of your interests and get placed on a team in the company that aligns with your preferences and skills. This is way better IMO to the reverse which is applying to ten different interesting positions at another big tech company and having to speak to individual hiring managers for each position.
- surrey-fringe 10y agoI like you, you have interesting opinions.
- tomc1985 10y agoHow does this add anything to the discussion either? This place is turning into /r/AskHistorians
- gumby 10y agoI thought it was funny enough to deserve having been posted, since it implied a nice misreading (or perhaps even a garden path sentence). You could also consider it a wry social comment on the Rise of the Robots. (I notice your comment has been downvoted. I will up vote it -- I disagree with it, but it's also reasonable question as questioning the standards and practices of the group are a way to converge on good practice. Every team should be doing that).