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by Peroni 13y ago
Isn't "cultural fit" another way to hide sexism, racism, and prejudice in the hiring process? I'm sure that's the case in rare circumstances. The phrase 'cultural fit' is fairly common here in the UK but
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by Peroni 13y ago
Granted it's a bit vague. See my response here for a more detailed explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417834
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by Peroni 13y ago
An hour in a relatively relaxed environment over a cup of coffee is more than enough for me to work out if you would get along with our team, work well with your potential new boss, actually enjoy working for us or not and whether or not yo
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by Peroni 13y ago
I've been in this game for a while now and the breakdown is pretty simple. If you are an employer, I implore you to trust me on these two simple points: 1. Finding decent people that are both technically competent and a good culture fi
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by Peroni 13y ago
What I've done should be proof enough. It really isn't. It may be indicative of your technical ability however your past experience doesn't give me any indication if you'd be a good culture fit.
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An introduction to ES6 Part 2: Block Scoping(globaldev.co.uk)
2 points by Peroni 13y ago|0 comments
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by Peroni 13y ago
For further comparison, Google has in the region of 50,000 permanent employees globally. http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
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Ruby Tips Part 2(globaldev.co.uk)
68 points by Peroni 13y ago|17 comments
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An introduction to ES6 Part 1: Using ES6 Today(globaldev.co.uk)
2 points by Peroni 13y ago|0 comments
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by Peroni 13y ago
Works perfectly fine for me (London - O2 Broadband) and perfect on my mobile (London - EE 4G)
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by Peroni 13y ago
Send me your CV. I'll happily give you any advice I think might help. My info is in my profile.
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by Peroni 13y ago
There are a few options here: http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs?contract=1
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by Peroni 13y ago
I'd argue that I'm doing my bit to change the world by ensuring I raise an emotionally stable, empathetic, happy human being. During the day I do my bit by helping others find a job that actually makes them happy. I may not be sen
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by Peroni 13y ago
100hr week = 16hr days assuming you take one day off per week. 16hr days + 6hrs sleep = 2 non-working hours a day. Personally I would rather live in comfortable mediocrity and spend significant time with my wife and son than distance myself
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by Peroni 13y ago
HN London almost always gets front paged. Maybe the account that submits the SFHN meetup is blacklisted for some reason? Probably a question for the admins.
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by Peroni 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
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by Peroni 13y ago
Well they both work on compression, diesels simply rely on it more than gasoline engines. Diesel engines work on what's called adiabatic compression heating. In other words, the compression causes the air to heat to a point higher than
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by Peroni 13y ago
All stored on a 1TB external hard drive and backed up every couple of months on a second 1TB hard drive. The oldest of the two hard drives is replaced every 12 months. One is kept in a safe in our home, the other is kept in a safe at a fami
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by Peroni 13y ago
I certainly believe that being given the option would be a significant improvement. How you execute that appropriately is better answered by a UX expert which I'm definitely not!
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by Peroni 13y ago
I'm a hiring manager. There are a number of connections on LinkedIn that I would happily interview if they expressed interest. There are also a small number of connections I would love to interview me for a role at their company. The c
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by Peroni 13y ago
You're absolutely right. I couldn't think for the life of me what the appropriate word was so truncate was the only suitable word I could think of.
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by Peroni 13y ago
No. I'm afraid you are missing the point entirely. Let's use your example as context. I am running a Scala or Ruby development team and regularly meet a lot of developers in conferences. I meet an amazing Scala developer at a conf
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by Peroni 13y ago
The emphasis in this particular sentence is on the word "they". Truncating it to "they're" removes that emphasis.
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by Peroni 13y ago
If you have a match, we notify you through your email registered in your LinkedIn account. That's the part I'm struggling to understand. How will I ever get a match? Say I select Director A as someone I would be interested in be
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by Peroni 13y ago
You are interested in a job interview with them, if they're too Best not to truncate "they are" in this instance. Select anyone with whom you are interested in a job interview. It is anonymous and private; your connections
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by Peroni 13y ago
To be honest, I misinterpreted the ratio. I wasn't aware that the 50 included people who were phone screened. Fortunately the ratio makes a lot more sense in that context.
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by Peroni 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words. I feel exceptionally guilty for my harsh feedback now. I'm still bothered by the 1 in 50 ratio. Maybe I'm misinterpreting it. Does that 50 include people who get phone screened or is that 50 exclusively
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by Peroni 13y ago
A 1-in-50 hire rate is absolutely shocking regardless of the company size, industry, etc. Whoever is responsible for prescreening these applicants prior to being interviewed simply isn't doing their job.
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by Peroni 13y ago
I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position Q1. - Given that most companies interview less than 10% of the total number of applicants, I would love to know how one job received 3,000 applicants. Q2.
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by Peroni 13y ago
I think the entire thing is meant to be a bit of a parody.

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