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by angarg12 4y ago
I see OPs point. But I disagree with both the premise and conclusion. Maybe it's because I come from a Mediterranean country, but I don't think we should tell people, and American even less, to invest even more time and effort in
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Overall I'd say they are above industry average, but quality is all over the place. Some of the tools are old and carry a lot of baggage. Migrations are incredibly hard and there seems to be an underinvestment in modernization and deve
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by angarg12 4y ago
In another comment I mention that our service has some properties which make this a great solution. It doesn't always work, but when it does, it's awesome. To your point, Erlang has the concept of supervisor trees and handling of
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by angarg12 4y ago
Funny that you mention cleanup. Our service doesn't clean up in any circumstance. Originally we had a cleanup operation in case of errors. But then we found those could fail as well. As it turns out, we need a catch-all way to clean up
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These kind of systems are not always appropriate, but when they do, they work wonderfully. Our use case was to build a service to manage the dynamic part of our infrastructure. These are infra pieces that are created/deleted/modif
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by angarg12 4y ago
One of the pieces of software I'm most proud of is a service to manage the dynamic part of our infrastructure. It uses control theory and let it fail to great effect. The service reads the state of the system, and applies change to con
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by angarg12 4y ago
The stories given by OP don't seem to support her point as much, it seems to me. The fact is that she and 'other who don't belong' where in those parties. Contrast this with some crusty societies of Europe, such as Germa
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by angarg12 4y ago
That's a good point. I guess most readers are like dark matter. It's a pity the minority who does interact tend to give a (presumably) biased perception.
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I love the concept of luck surface, and I believe it's a great mental model. However > FOR EVERY SNARKY COMMENT, THERE ARE 10X AS MANY PEOPLE ADMIRING YOUR WORK. This is the opposite of my modest experience. Negativity has outweighe
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The most baffling example is a candidate who admitted they didn't expect ML specific questions and hence hadn't prepared. I spent a minute figuring out if we were interviewing the right candidate. My expectations are always evolvi
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Both juniors and mid levels.
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Misconceptions: not knowing regression vs classification, supervised vs unsupervised, or thinking that ML is just neural networks.
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This is a fairly new role in our company. Officially it's described as 50% data scientist and 50% developer, but the loop composition is the same as developer but replacing one of the coding rounds for an ML round. I'm still exper
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by angarg12 4y ago
Little offtopic about the curse of knowledge. I recently started interviewing ML Engineers for my company. In general I'm quite surprised by the lack of knowledge of people applying for the job. People seem to have several misconceptio
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I thought about this. I think it would be incredibly difficult to pull of. Doing that means that effectively you have +2 different ways to interview candidates. Ensuring consistency, fairness and a good candidate experience with one standar
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I've performed hundreds of interviews and this never came up. If it happened, I would chuckle and say we don't have enough time. However I would offer the candidate to meet privately at some time after work and go through a coding
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Yes, behavioral questions aren't perfect, but I do believe they still serve a purpose. Sure, candidates will embellish and make up stories. Still you are able to weed out candidates who are an obvious bad match, or identify potential g
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by angarg12 4y ago
Yes, some Talkers have great ideas, and some Doers offer terrible advice. I think a more nuanced mental framework that avoids ad-hominem is "opinions" vs "experiences". Some Talkers peddle opinions because they haven&#x2
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by angarg12 4y ago
I'm not too partial of Taleb, but I like some of his ideas, including this one. Also I don't think he is the one who invented it.
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I like the concept of Talkers vs Doers, that I leant from Nassim Taleb. Whenever reading advice on the internet, one should check the author and ask themselves "what has this person actually *done* that gives credit to their words?&quo
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by angarg12 4y ago
Are some of these really beginner opinions? It's ok for the sake of a joke, but some of these reasonings are far more sophisticated that I've seen in practice from people with little or no experience.
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My issue with this article is that it misrepresents a bit the people in the #3 tier, particularly those of pre-IPO companies. Sure, there are people who join such a company and make 1M when they IPO. But that is a one time event, and the en
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Yes, about 15% less. On the other hand I got promoted and my promo stock was valued near the bottom from last year. When the market recovers I expect my upside will be larger than the loss, overall.
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by angarg12 4y ago
I keep a running list of articles I found useful over the years. There are many great articles about Code Reviews out there. Consider this a more general answer to your question: Feedback Ladders: How We Encode Code Reviews at Net-lify htt
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I'd like to somehow generalize this advice. My take is to compare proactive vs reactive learning. Early in my career I was all proactive learning. I would study languages, frameworks, tools, anything under the sun. Vast majority of the
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My org has seen significant attrition at all levels, including mid+ management. My take is much simpler: just like us IC folks, managers jump ship for better opportunities, promotions, and raises. I'm not making this up. I've hear
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This should be the top comment. Many senior, great engineers aren't looking, and when they do, they usually don't just apply to job postings. You need to overhaul your hiring process for Senior+ folks. Tap onto your network, encou
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by angarg12 4y ago
This is bad advice. It sounds like the dynamics of a dysfunctional, low performing organization. In general, please don't blindly follow the advice of random people on the internet (including me!). There is plenty of advice around from
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I've seen this pattern so many times in life it isn't even funny. An acquaintance hated her job and had to leave to be happy. Now she is on her 3rd job in 1.5 years and already thinking about leaving again. Somehow the next job wi
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by angarg12 4y ago
I got mine for 500 pounds. A comparable jacket should go for between 2k and 3k.

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