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It's like tech interviewing has become the modern equivalent of the old Chinese Imperial examination: keep your head down, don't rock the boat, study these arbi
by danjac 6y ago
It's like tech interviewing has become the modern equivalent of the old Chinese Imperial examination: keep your head down, don't rock the boat, study these arbitrary tests to rise in status. A far cry from the early days of HN when the culture was more "think different".
- pavas 6y agoI would be wary of new teammates whose motto is "think different" when it comes to operating services at $B scale, because if they break something, someone else on the team will have to work all day and night to get things fixed and it won't be them. That does probably depend on whether you're doing greenfield work or not, but even then these costs are there but just not immediately visible.
- danjac 6y agoWhich is understandable, if you have services at $B scale. It's a bit like teams that adopt microservices or Kubernetes for their three-person startup: just because Amazon or Facebook do it doesn't mean you should.