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by angarg12 4y ago
Regarding the Third point, I can already see part of this movement. I've become disenchanted with the quality of the discourse. Specifically as I've entered a more senior stage of my career, I'm looking to mingle with like-mi
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by angarg12 4y ago
If by success rate you mean inclined rate, it varies a lot by level. I'd say it's around 30% for interns (which is by far more lenient) and closer to 5% for Senior level. However it's also common to downlevel senior candidate
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by angarg12 4y ago
I love it! Particularly, ChatGPT can give apparently correct solutions that are wrong in subtle ways. Also reading, understanding, reasoning about, and fixing code other's wrote is way closer to on-the-job performance.
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by angarg12 4y ago
We've been doing remote-only interviews for years now.
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Possibly. The problem itself is not in leetcode, but it almost certainly has been leaked somewhere. However the program was able to make a few changes to the code with some prompting, which hints a little bit more smarts than just regurgita
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by angarg12 4y ago
I'm not a fan of making the process more dreadful than it already is. Forcing people to go to an office and use pen and paper or a whiteboard would do exactly that. I hope companies (including mine!) see the writing on the wall and sto
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by angarg12 4y ago
I hate leetcode style interviews, but I've done hundreds of them. The irony is not lost on me. Some might say I'm part of the problem. Thing is, in a small way, I'm trying to change things from within. I try to make the proce
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by angarg12 4y ago
I agree. Our interview has 3 coding rounds, and one of them I call "clean code". For that I ask a straightforward question that requires candidate to define some APIs and write some classes / functions. Then I ask several fol
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by angarg12 4y ago
Wrote my full comment at the top level. I'm a FAANG interviewer and I've run my coding questions through ChatGPT. The TL;DR is that code would easily pass a junior-level interview, and maybe a mid-level one. I'm definitely co
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by angarg12 4y ago
I've conducted hundreds of FAANG-level coding interviews, and recently tried to run my interview questions through ChatGPT. The model was able to spit out a correct, optimal, clean Python solution effortlessly. Interestingly when I ask
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by angarg12 4y ago
Glad to see I'm not the only one baffled by this article. If you've ever developed and maintained software in production, you had to deal with failures. Is just part of the regular software development lifecycle.
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by angarg12 4y ago
A little offtopic, but some people might find it interesting. My company doesn't have a "Software Architect" job title. Instead the closest thing is "Staff+ Engineer", which does pretty much the same things. However
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by angarg12 4y ago
Offtopic, but I find the sassy and judgy tone of this article incredibly irritating. I don't love matte car paints either, but I don't shit all over them or the people who like them. Is this style supposed to be funny? maybe I&#x2
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by angarg12 4y ago
I work in a big tech company making > 5 times the average salary. People think I'm really fortunate, rich, and that I got it easy. What they don't see is how I spent half of my career working for a poverty level wage. Making a
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by angarg12 4y ago
Although I sorta-kinda agree with the sentiment, I disagree with the pessimistic conclusion (for a change!). I don't believe the alternatives are "fix it now or never". And we can structure our workflow to deal with this bett
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by angarg12 4y ago
After living in England for a while, this year we finally moved to the US. Although I have never been too athletic, I've put on 5-7 KG since we moved, and I can't shed them off. We are mostly eating the same as before, and in fact
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by angarg12 4y ago
In my career I have two clear examples of projects that a) Got cancelled shortly before launching b) Took several people several months to complete (amounting to a number of people-years) and most importantly c) Would not have started if so
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by angarg12 4y ago
> Taste is knowing what is good — being able to recognize it. > Skill is the ability to build — to do what’s needed to do the work. > Taste and skill are totally independent. This is the crux of the article, and I'm not sure w
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by angarg12 4y ago
"Do what you love and money will follow" has genuinely wrecked many lives. I know too many people (some very close to me) that followed this mantra. What ensued was most often very low paying jobs, or long term unemployment. The &
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by angarg12 4y ago
I have been interviewing ML Engineers for a while now and I've seen companies fall into the same pitfall over and over. I informally call this the "low hanging fruit" or the "illusion of competence" pitfall. It goes
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by angarg12 4y ago
People have had 10 year careers in tech thinking the world is a permanent bull market. I can imagine how this feels like the world is collapsing around them. For those of us who have weathered previous recessions, we know the world moves on
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by angarg12 4y ago
Although I agree with the spirit of the post, the critique of what 'feels' nice and livable is highly debatable, and I believe intensely culture-specific. I was born and grew up in a very dense, urban city in Europe, and I love bi
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by angarg12 4y ago
I have 10+ YoE, and I'm currently working in ML at Big Tech. I regularly get contacted by recruiters offering 100+ $/hr contracts unsolicited. I'm pretty sure those are bottom of the barrel rates and I would be able to get mu
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by angarg12 4y ago
This might work early in your career, but should plateau very quickly. Junior to mid level in 2 years is easy. Mid level to senior in 2 years is doable. It would definitely be considered fast in most big tech. Senior to Staff in 2 years is
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by angarg12 4y ago
> I have no idea about how effective pair programming is. My desire to discover it is zero. > Similarly, I don't discuss the benefits of getting people in the same room to solve a problem, but I am not super interested either. Ad
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by angarg12 4y ago
Pretty much most big tech companies have levels Junior, Mid and Senior (and above). It gets confusing because many companies skip the mid level and call anyone with 1-2+ YoE Senior. However most often Senior eng at Big Tech is a bigger deal
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by angarg12 4y ago
Senior Engineer is one of the most abused terms in the industry. Depending on the company it can mean anything from "literally not a novice" to "leads the delivery of complex systems involving several teams". Without con
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by angarg12 4y ago
I like the take that "dirty work" might be unexplored space where impactful, relatively unexplored work can be done. However I reject the notion that simply doing dirty work will help you to advance your career. Since the author s
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by angarg12 4y ago
Thanks, very useful! I see there are better rates out there indeed.
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by angarg12 4y ago
What would you say is a good and a top hourly rate?

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