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by Xyik 11y ago
Not too surprising when you consider there isn't really a standardized guideline and every interviewer asks questions of varying difficulty. Sometimes interviewers don't even ask candidates the same question and tailor them based
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by Xyik 11y ago
The sad thing is, one of Twitter's core values is to reach every person on the planet.
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by Xyik 11y ago
An ads business is based on impressions. Growing users is one way of increasing impressions in which you can sell to advertisers.
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by Xyik 11y ago
Maybe doctors should hire someone to help with the paperwork? This seems like a case where scaling horizontally works better than scaling vertically. Like how some tech companies make use of QA departments while others do their own QAs, per
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by Xyik 11y ago
This is true, but as others stated an over-simplification of Twitter's features. Even without the factor of scale, building Twitter for 1000 users would be hard when you consider things like private messages, e-mail notifications, on-s
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by Xyik 11y ago
"Yet this OP disproved this. So I don't get what the point is." From the blog: "David and I are living proof that if we can upgrade and improve the way we think, and overcome our mindset inequality, then maybe we can hel
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by Xyik 11y ago
Interesting that they have enough data, since I doubt even 1000 companies have gone through YC and counting the few hundred that have, probably only a small fraction of them have exited or died.
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by Xyik 11y ago
I think what people keep forgetting here is that you are comparing all start-ups to the Googles and Facebooks of the world. There are MANY promising start ups up there, it really depends on what your definition of a start up is. Number of e
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by Xyik 11y ago
I agree that its wrong to be giving pay raises / promotions to employees solely based on who worked longer hours. Obviously, pay and promotion should be judged on the value delivered not the effort put in. However, in my opinion, great
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by Xyik 11y ago
not sure if this is a joke, think every web engineer knows images are the first place to optimize.
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by Xyik 11y ago
The point of joining a start-up is to take risk and make more $. I'm not sure there is anyone who doesn't get that. Obviously joining a large stable company with consistent growth will net you high stable pay, the point is if you
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by Xyik 11y ago
thanks for sharing this. mirrors several interviews i've had
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by Xyik 11y ago
Surprised that people are finding this unusual, in web/mobile anyways. In my experience most engineers do some level of QA themselves, particularly in start-ups < 1000 people. In what ways does an engineer being their own QA negativ
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by Xyik 11y ago
I didn't learn much about AirB&B, but the insight into living in New York was interesting.
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by Xyik 11y ago
I thought CEOs were supposed to be decisive. Why don't I see anything actionable here.
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by Xyik 11y ago
lol - so which features are you going to exclude? Is your weekend-twitter-app going to support a feed, favoriting / reteweeting only to your followers / dming only between followers / ability to block / filter / rat
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by Xyik 11y ago
Why doesn't AirB&B work to reduce prices? Once it becomes less profitable for people to sublet their places for the sake of making it money, maybe people will see it as less of an evil. There are far too many hacker hotels in SF on
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by Xyik 11y ago
Which part of this question ensures the candidate is capable of doing the job?
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by Xyik 11y ago
Hmm, so instead of Facebook Ad we should create click-bait articles as a form of free advertising. Thanks.
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by Xyik 11y ago
This is ridiculously overblown. Glad to see people defending him and righting a wrong, but all of this is going to inflate his head.
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by Xyik 11y ago
Click-bait ... doesn't tell us at all about Zenefit's hiring process at the present at all, or how to 'ace' them.
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by Xyik 11y ago
Hmm, lets see I would guess they at the very minimum have a: -Web team -Mobile team -Data team -Infrastructure team -Tools team So assuming at least 5 people per team thats already 25 people ... why is it so hard to understand that building
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by Xyik 11y ago
Thank you. For all this talk about Amazon being a 'data-driven' company, I have yet to see any data on their employee churn rates from the people defending Amazon. I wonder why we don't hear about these types of horror storie
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by Xyik 11y ago
I thought facebook was located at 1 Hacker Way not Hacker Lane
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by Xyik 11y ago
Fresh graduates are often better at programming / algorithm interviews than older experienced programmers who have been out of the interviewing game for a while. It's actually pretty important to know which demographic of users th
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by Xyik 11y ago
The most stressful part is preparing for anywhere from 10-20 technical interviews during midterms. There is nothing worst than knowing you have to balance your University degree with future Job prospects. I'm glad I had to go through i
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by Xyik 12y ago
Love how every time a post concerning interviews pops-up on hackernews everyone gets defensive. Like all things I think the nature of the interview should reflect the role the developer will have when hired. If the developer won't be i
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by Xyik 12y ago
Seems like it could be easy to accidentally send someone money.
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by Xyik 12y ago
People forget there's a distinction between Computer Scientist / Data Scientist / Software Engineer. They are not one and the same, and depending on your job you may only need to be one of those three categories. You don&#x27
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by Xyik 12y ago
I think its important to match interview style with the company. If you're a very theoretical data-oriented / machine learning company then knowing algorithms and computer science is very important so traditional coding tests are

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