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by _swfb 1y ago
I mean, I dunno. I attached my name to these things because these are opinions I do really hold. I could have easily done this under a pseudonym, but I didn't, and if I am going to attach my name to it (or an alias easily tied to m),
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by _swfb 1y ago
I actually do appreciate the advice and blunt feedback, because you're right, I'm a little tired of affirmations. I honestly forgot about the tweets from years ago where I was pretty burnt out. I will be deleting those shortly.
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by _swfb 1y ago
Yeah, none of this is bad advice at all. In my normal personal life I tend to be pretty sarcastic and self-deprecating. My therapist says it might be a defense mechanism to avoid actually confronting problems; if you make a person you&#x27
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by _swfb 1y ago
I just think it has to be soft skills in a few particular cases; I always check my work after the interview to see if I got the questions right, almost always by writing a PlusCal spec and checking against the invariants that they specified
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by _swfb 1y ago
I used to be a lecturer and I did notice that that really helped my public speaking; I tend to talk really fast and being a lecturer forced me to learn how to speak slower, so it wouldn't surprise me that being a waiter or waitress wou
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by _swfb 1y ago
Yeah, at some level I know this; I've given interviews before and seen people get declined for the dumbest reasons, or no reason at all, and I usually give people this same advice when they're down. Dunno, it's just hard not
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by _swfb 1y ago
Due to sleep apnea, I've avoided any alcohol for the last couple years. I've never really had much of an issue saying what's on my mind, so I don't know that alcohol would really help me much, generally all alcohol does
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by _swfb 1y ago
Oh I have a bunch of anecdotes about interviewers from BigCos that knew absolutely nothing about concurrent programming but thought that they knew a lot about concurrent programming and "corrected" my answers during the intervie
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by _swfb 1y ago
> don't act on wild conjectures. The issue is not just this one company. I have been at this for months with similar stories for a lot of them. Sometimes I get the technical questions wrong, so that's fair enough, I understand
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Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
66 points by _swfb 1y ago|119 comments
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by _swfb 1y ago
I don't think that the talk has been released on public YouTube yet (and they made it clear to not share the unlisted links publicly), but here is the posting: [url-redacted] And the slides are available here: [url-redacted] I'm a
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by _swfb 2y ago
It's actually more recent than I thought, looks like it was 2018. I would have sworn it was earlier but I can see the "sent" timestamp on ProtonMail.
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by _swfb 2y ago
I actually still have the email. Here's what I sent: Hello! I don't have a lot to say to you, but I just wanted to say that about a month ago, I started the transition away from Google, and the most obvious thing to sw
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by _swfb 2y ago
I always forget that DDG is written with Perl, even after I emailed yegg a million years ago asking why they used Perl, and he responded back, which was nice of him. I hear Raku is fun, I haven't used it, but I sort of swore a soft oat