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by angarg12 5y ago
I work on the engineering side of ads. Yes, targeted advertising consistently produces higher conversion rates. Your personal experience might have been "poor", but in aggregate it works.
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No one in the comments mentions complexity. The complexity of the interactions you described is orders of magnitude anything software in, say, the 80s had to deal with. Just imagine how many technologies you are using to display photos from
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by angarg12 5y ago
I do tons of interviews, particularly at the junior level, so feel free to message if you want more specific tips about the process. I'll share some thoughts here: * As some have said getting an internship is the easiest way to get an
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by angarg12 5y ago
> Unfortunately, places with hard problems that haven’t been solved are also — inevitably — kind of dysfunctional. I disagree wholeheartedly. Many companies (from big tech to fast growing startups) have hard problems that need solving, a
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I drink, but only anti-socially.
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The article doesn't mention the double whammy of losing well connected engineers: morale and ripple effect. When a high performed with a good network leaves a company, it usually encourage others to leave as well.
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by angarg12 5y ago
> but the best solution is to have trial work periods. There’s no better way to see how someone performs at the job than having them actually do the job. > I agree trial work periods may not scale Great to see the author uses the Gree
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I also completed my master's while working full time way back then (+10 years ago). I wouldn't say it was the happiest or most relaxed time of my life, but I'm glad it was over in a year. BTW in restrospect doing a master&#x2
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by angarg12 5y ago
If what I want is money I think I'm better off getting competing offers as a regular Software Engineer and pumping the numbers.
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I can tell you we are not paid more than Software Engineers, but that might be only my company. One startup asked me this. They gave me a very vague problem statement, and in 2 days I had to find a couple of recent articles relevant to the
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I have been working as an ML Engineer for a few years now and I am baffled by the bar to entry for these positions in the industry. Not only I need to perform at the Software Engineer level expected for the position (with your standard leet
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2 years ago I did an internal transfer in my company. It's up to each team how they want to handle it, but some teams set up a full interview similar to what external candidates go through. Out of 2 interviews, I failed one and passed
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What if logging is part of your business logic?
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Most often, but not always. To understand why here is another bit of my philosophy: the aim is to find a good match between candidate and company. The interview is a (very flawed) proxy for this, so don't overindex on it. For instance,
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Of course. Contrary to popular belief you don't need to ace all interviews to get an offer. It's fairly common to make a hire decision with one person not inclined.
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Almost all advice online about interviewing is written from the point of view of the candidate. Sometimes this is good advice, but sometimes it devolves into some kind of astrology, where candidate are just guessing how things work. I'
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Just read Taleb's Fooled by Randomness chapter on The Millionaire Next Door to understand why this article is, at best, useless.
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by angarg12 5y ago
I can only talk for Software Engineers. Amazon pay for engineers is by no means low, definitely above the median. But it doesn't pay top dollar either. We are constantly losing good candidates to other companies for a higher pay. That&
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Top performers leave the company voluntarily, most often to get a promotion and pay rise elsewhere. This is commonplace in tech. The problem is (particularly during the last few months) the intake of talent has struggled to keep up.
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by angarg12 5y ago
> This is not a case of “not enough resources'', this is a case of the project not getting the internal priority to invest in improvement. This is only partly true. Fun fact: Amazon is so big and the churn so high, that hiring
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by angarg12 5y ago
If what is slowing your iteration speed is testing, I'd say you are in a somewhat happy place. At least you can write test, speed up the build, or somehow improve the situation. What drains my soul is when you need to use legacy or poo
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> Any technical interview is going to be gameable and exclusionary to some underrepresented group/background. Bold claim! I agree, and think this isn't talked about enough. People love to hate leetcode-style tech interviews, bu
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> Being paged out of hours is as serious as a fucking heart attack. As someone who is oncall regularly and had close ones getting heart attacks I find this offensive. But hey, at the same time I understand the need for hyperbole to grab
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by angarg12 5y ago
Non answer, but after years of waiting and further delays due to Covid, I'm finally due for my visa appointment and preparing to relocate to the US. I'll let you know how it goes in 1 year!
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by angarg12 5y ago
Pretty good article and good points. I want to add a few more based on my experience: * On the topic of systems changing. The "perfect" system is a moving target. Have you ever encountered an entire module that could be replaced b
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A few years back I made a small web game, and then found out it had been ripped and posted in a Chinese website (translated to Chinese). Far from pissing me off, I'm flattered anyone bothered doing that. Up to this day this is my bigge
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All of that would have been avoided with a code review.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I think most candidates don't hate scripter interviews, they hate robotic interviewers that go mindlessly through a checklist. When I train interviewers my advice is: have a script, but b
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Odd comment. We hate the tech interview because it doesn't fairly evaluate on the job performance of candidates, but apparently it's ok to reject them because they don't fit the interviewer's tribe.
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My takeaway from the Zillow debacle has nothing to do with OPs approach. Instead I look at it from the Antifragile framework. It looks like this business model had a lot of ways to go wrong and very few ways to go right. In other words, it

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