_throwawayyyyyy

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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
just posting that i love this comment and thank you
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
idk about your "anti-labor" strawman here. promoting wholly unqualified internal people who have never managed anyone before and expecting them to take over a high performing team is not a good plan, nor is it "anti-labor&quo
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
no way. you'll take someone who is a great individual contributor and find they're a terrible manager since they want to turn everyone else into _themselves_. if you're going to promote from within, please send them to a cou
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
what the heck with dr seuss? get your culture war BS outta here.
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
exactly - was on a team where an individual contributor got promoted vertically to manager and thought they could create a good product by code reviewing everyone to death and demanding that they be the only one allowed to code review. no
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
like the tantrum that OP posted about not bitching?
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
Troll cave getting lonely, came out for some company?
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
Elon treats humans like cogs in his money machine.
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
Yes it follows. \ "Wouldn't it seem more likely that California latinos statistically disregard health officials advice" - No. For example: a lot of communities have intergenerational families living in close proximity due t
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
exactly - elon musk directly contributed to the rise of covid in the bay
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
what a useless comment - should be removed
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
before trump we used to do this thing called try to cajole other countries into having labor laws. something the TPP would have helped with, for example. MAGA amirite?
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
your entire thesis is more or less: "it happened, get over it?" night doesn't become day in a single instant. your long list mapping products you use to the horrors of their creation shows that you obviously grok the gravity
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by _throwawayyyyyy 6y ago
your take is one of the nuttier ones i've seen during the pandemic "Society chose to ban the vaccine, killing hundreds of thousands of lives that could have been prevented. This pandemic is effectively solely a problem caused by t
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
here's a new position you ought to see at FAANGs: interview engineer. imagine if they had actual engineers who didn't feel like doing interviews was a time suck from their actual jobs or a way to ingratiate themselves to a promot
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
they can put you on 'salary' to get you to work unlimited unpaid overtime, not give you specific days off so that you can have 'unlimited' (no) vacation, fire you at will any day for any reason, and make you go through a
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
one of my in-person interviewers at Google forgot they had to do this - I spent like 38 minutes of our interview whiteboarding and then he said, "oh crap you're supposed to do this on the computer" - i furiously typed for a f
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
Thank you, I appreciate your sentiment. Agree that individually it doesn't make a lot of sense to get upset about it, but this has been my experience with all of tech interviewing for years now. Their behavior is pretty standard, from
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
Thanks for your response. Obviously it says more about how terrible their process is than it does about me as a candidate, but you can't help but internalize some of it. Appreciate the input - will keep chugging. Choo choo!
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
thanks for your response, it really made me feel a lot better. it was TikTok, btw.
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Ask HN: Have you been ghosted during the recruiting process?
6 points by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago|8 comments
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
it's a stupid game but you're smart to play it. but if DS&A puzzles are a de-facto standard, why not have an actual standard? the whole thing is pretty haphazard. it's like hiring someone to be your defense attorney beca
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
interesting observation! makes sense. i wonder if it's because engineers are generally salaried instead of billed hourly. given all the 'crunch' and unpaid overtime, we'd be a lot more expensive hourly - folks might r
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
kudos for giving options; too bad the candidates didn't appreciate that. once they spend some more time in the wild, they might!
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
How many companies have paid you?
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
"3. the project is explicitly meant to take at most a few hours (we even use this as a way to gauge whether a candidate tends to over-engineer things)" i think this is great - time limits help both sides, but companies don't
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
People lie about their credentials in every profession, why do you think in tech you're going to somehow be able to stop that?
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
What do you mean? You can whip up an invoice in Google docs or use a service like Wave or something for free. The trick is: who do you send the invoice to, and will they ever pay it? I've invoiced companies that made me do unpaid proj
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
no, doesn't sound ideal to me. you probably don't need a take-home. how much time are you expecting / "giving" candidates to work on these take-home programming tests? it sounds like you're wasting lots of peo
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by _throwawayyyyyy 7y ago
A short technical screen to ask those things is reasonable. My post was originally about unpaid projects, although the discussion around interviewing in general has been interesting. I wouldn't expect to get paid for a 20 minute tech

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