LordHumungous

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by LordHumungous 5y ago
Yeah I'm not surprised he's burned out after doing 20 interviews lol. You have to pace yourself. This guy sounds like the kind of person who bull rushes into things and burns himself out.
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by LordHumungous 5y ago
Yes this guy comes off as a bit entitled, but hey, the industry grind is not for everyone. I applaud him for making his own path.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Aka living the dream
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
So all the difficulties in engineering are due to "dicks" and "idiots", unlike like the author who is presumably the only clever person in the entire industry. Here is an example of one thing I actually don't like a
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Decades of research! I hate how they can't just say we believe in diversity because that's what we value. There's nothing wrong with that.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
"Tell me about an experience mentoring someone." would probably get better responses. Ask about DEI directly and people will just recite the woke handbook, whether they believe it or not.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
I mean, what's the utility that I get from the network effect as a user? Lots of people that I barely know and don't care about are on it, great who cares.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
And all of their servers run Linux kernel.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Why are we letting Twitter off the hook when it was literally his biggest megaphone? Is it because Twitter is popular with liberals?
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
I feel like the real issue is that the President of the United States was giving them marching orders. The platform that they happened to use is secondary.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Ability to design and implement a large scale system from the ground up.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
The alternative according to HN is to just recognize my genius based on my resume and what my friends say about me, and throw an offer at me.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
A take home test is fine as long as it is expected to take < 2 hours. One company expected me to spend a whole day on their test and it's like I'm sorry, I don't have time for that.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
The interview is not just about leet code. There's also a behavioral loop and a system design loop, and both of those are extremely important as well. In fact most candidates vastly underestimate their importance. In my experience the
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Yep, most of their questions are straight out of leetcode.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
I feel the same. It's also much more meritocratic. People from no-name schools and no-name companies study leetcode and get into FAANG all the time. Do people really think it would be better to base it on resume and YOE?
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Putting up with bullshit is also a desirable characteristic for FAANG
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Leetcode problems are good because they select for people who are willing to put in the hours to get good at them. Aka, hard workers. Above all else, what predicts success at a job is work ethic. This is even more true at FAANG.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
You have a hard time at Amazon
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
One thing to note is that FB has two system design interviews. There is an "infrastructure" track and a "product" track. The former is like the classic sys design round described here, but the latter focuses more on APIs
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Introducing the Facebook phone: just like the Apple phone except it tracks you more. I can't see it working out.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
It's a close call between my dislike for Facebook's model, and my dislike for Apple's walled-garden, which this move is absolutely intended to reinforce.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
It is perfectly easy to go through life without a Facebook account. Yet people choose to use it. This suggests to me that they feel they are getting some utility out of it.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
And who's job is it to decide what's best for the people?
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
I just googled "Apple Ad platform" lol
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Search Ads don't count why?
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Getting tired of these melodramatic think pieces.
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Check out all these new job postings https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=ads%20platform&so...
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Interesting that they are posting a bunch of new reqs for their ads platform https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=ads%20platform&so...
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by LordHumungous 6y ago
Conflict of interest? Lol. It sounds like he or she has relevant expertise in the matter being discussed. Rare for Hacker News commenters.

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