LaserToy

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by LaserToy 8y ago
I also lost couple battles with enterprise sales. Somebody makes a decision and engineering has to deal with it.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
It is more enjoyable to work with people who love what they do. I also don’t believe you can be actually very good at something if you not I live with it. That’s it.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
If majority doesn’t, why create a process that punishes everyone? People are lying on the resumes is a very common argument made by creators of insane interview processes. It feels weird to start a relationship with a company with assumptio
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by LaserToy 8y ago
That is advanced one. I thought current state of the at is a fine skill of throwing things against a wall and seeing if they stick
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by LaserToy 8y ago
imperfection, inability, incorrectness Running out of ideas
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by LaserToy 8y ago
What is AI?
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I was very close to do it and I did a poor job hiding my annoyance. It didn’t stop there. The coding challenge was standard bs done in a glitchy online tool. Yet another clone of coderpad which implemented poorly. I asked the interviewer w
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Are yo saying most of candidates commit fraud? Do you have any data on it or just following common sense nonsense?
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Well, I actually willing to spend time on a problem, because it is interesting and I can do it in a fun way and learn something new. But I have 0 tolerance policy towards puzzle whiteboarding tests. It is total waste of time.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I will ask you about you projects, then I drill down till I find something technically interesting and have discussion about it. I will concentrate on failures, not on successes. Gives me better signal than solve a problem on whiteboard que
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Context: 15 years of experience, multiple public talks (including AWS reInvent), own chunk of infra serving hundreds millions users. Got a message from yet another self driving startup. Agreed to do a phone screen out of curiosity. Intervie
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I disagree. I don’t know based on what you are making claims, but based on my anecdotical experience knowing fundamentals help low level coders to pass interview but has little to do with performing well. Based on my experience (currently r
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I hope you are not going to be asked to implement consensus alg on the whiteboard. Took less time to invent than 0, but good luck writing it.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Ok, here is the question for you. I’m from gaming company, so it is relevant: given a matrix of 0s and 1s where 0 is a wall and 1 is an empty space, write function that finds path between provided coordinates. It should be suitable for real
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Bfs is just one of examples. I can ask you a question you will not be able to answer without knowing the answer. There is a reason it took researchers years to find those optimal solutions
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by LaserToy 8y ago
You are absolute right. I’m telling recruiters upfront that I will spend 0 time preparing and if it is a deal breaker - it is what it is.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I have a problem with the title. They could’ve named it: SLQ schema management.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Deployment automation is an engineering task that can be designed, implemented, deployed by an engineering team. It could be an internal Software Delivery product
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Yup, our ops call themselves DevOps and SREs in the same meeting, not doing any of it.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I always thought that DevOps are developers who can do ops. But in recent years I see more and more people calling themselves DevOps, even all they do is ops with simple scripting. I think we need a new name for developers who run their cod
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Who knows,but I bet some sweet deal was involved. When Netflix started using AWS it wasn’t a thing, it was pretty bad datacenter. Even amazon.com wasn’t using aws (contrary to their marketing material).
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I have being thinking about the same idea for a long time. Search can be externalized, and hosting is very cheap these days. Actually, with right approach, hosting might be virtually free, if we use cloud drive providers
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by LaserToy 8y ago
We run a lot on aws. Services, databases, ... Cassandra, Aerosoike, Couchbase, DynamoDB to name a few. Each of them is good in something, but DynamoDB is the most expensive one. For small datasets with low RPS it provides a lot of value, bu
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by LaserToy 8y ago
When you are hitting a real scale, DynamoDB becomes prohibitively expensive.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself.
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Are the product
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I think it is time to Lean In and do something, like put your customer first. Honestly, after integrating with your platform 6 years ago, I realized that if you want to post something privately on FB - you just don’t post it.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I’ve never heard of a pro athlete being evaluated by their ability to bench press. Very good analogy that demonstrates how silly those interviews are.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
No, they do it because most don’t know how to interview. So, they just do what everyone else is doing.
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by LaserToy 8y ago
I worked at Google and I failed onsite interview at FB once. I guess I’m too bad as I have plenty of experience and didn’t get an offer. Could be I came across as an arrogant asshole, as I was itritated by questions I was asked and folks I

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