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by angarg12 6y ago
> When you're in a real interview the world changes: You're locked in a cage with a lion. I got into interviewing this last year as an interviewer. I used to think (as most people do) that the interview is a confrontation betw
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Leetcode is the current meta of the developer career. As all metas, you can choose to ignore it, but if you want to maximise efficiency, you need to play by the rules. Also many companies have systems that encourage this. For example, curre
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by angarg12 6y ago
One time I got approached by a recruiter from a startup. I wasn't actively looking to change jobs, but I accepted to go to an interview. One of my interviewers opened with the cliched "Why do you want to work for us?". I laug
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by angarg12 6y ago
Why stop there? Why not define networks of employees and their relationship? Why not weight an employee productivity score by the productivity score of their contacts? The possibilities are endless! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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On this topic I recommend Tao of Coaching [1], an entire book about how to give advice. The narrative between chapters is excruciating, but the content should be useful for anyone looking to mentor others, or getting a mentor. One of my key
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by angarg12 6y ago
I'm no TV show buff, but what I gather from my friends, your premise is pretty much false in many cases. First, in the age of binge watching, people might be specifically looking for shows with tons of episodes/seasons out to sink
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by angarg12 6y ago
I work in a large tech company and I also hate leetcode-style interviews, but I need to abide by the rules. My ideal interview questions are as follows: * No trick question. Reaching a solution shouldn't involve obscure knowledge or an
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by angarg12 6y ago
I agree with this, and I want to add to #3. When you prepare for the behavioural questions, give answers of real situations that you are very familiar with, and avoid "keyword soups". I've seen quite a few candidates failing
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by angarg12 6y ago
Less dramatically, I'm planning to move to a more rural part of England, where I will be able to rent a 2 bed house with garden for almost half of what I'm paying now for a 1 bed flat. But I'm fully aware this will be a tempo
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Ask HN: A path to management in a post-Covid world
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by angarg12 6y ago
I got an answer and a non-answer for you. The answer is in line with most of this thread: possible, yes, probable, no. All cases I know are from people who made enormous contributions to their respective fields before they could enrol in a
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by angarg12 6y ago
> If I get asked about why it takes long to make a simple change I can point to the environment and shrug my shoulders. I challenge you to stop thinking about FANG and focus on yourself instead. Have you brought this up to your manager?
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by angarg12 6y ago
Leaving everything else aside, the author seems to ignore a glaring point that in part solves this apparent paradox: everything is a huge game of musical chairs. Imagine that everyone he knows who want to change jobs go and filling those op
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by angarg12 6y ago
Unless they make a serious commitment, open large offices (a la HQ2) and ensure proper employee career progression, workers overseas will still suffer from the "satellite office effect". Managers will deny it but from my experienc
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Data? From my experience, my colleagues in Seattle make about twice as much as I do in the UK. Raw numbers, not counting taxes, cost of living, etc. In general a new hire in US can make as much as a senior in EU. Comparing income between co
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by angarg12 6y ago
It varies by country, for instance Spain seems more comfortable with density than say England. But leaving personal preferences and anecdotes aside, if we look at the data, Europe definitely prefers density compared to the US: https:/
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by angarg12 6y ago
Pretty rich how many of this FIRE fellas are pretty well off to begin with. And here I am, in my mid 30s, with a mid level programmer job, no career progression and spending a significant chunk of my income in rent. I would love to have mor
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by angarg12 6y ago
People underestimate the power of human connections and (tech) hubs. The job market is still far from a cold, optimal algorithm. I was born in a cheap city in southern Europe, and all my life I moved to increasingly bigger and more expensiv
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by angarg12 6y ago
It's worse than that. I believe that in many cases the social connections developed in college are one of the most important collateral of education, sometimes rivalling degrees themselves. A fully online education don't enable ne
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by angarg12 6y ago
My cynical self loves the headline of the article. Pity it is only mentioned once in passing. All my career I have been moving to increasingly more expensive places chasing after better jobs. So far I have very strong feelings about what I
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by angarg12 6y ago
It's a bit cliched, but I agree with a T shaped approach. One of my mentors told me that I was wearing too many hats, and I should focus on a single topic and develop deep expertise to advance my career. On the other hand, in a world w
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by angarg12 7y ago
Could this depend on the country? I'm 35 and this isn't my experience at all in the London area. Every week I have to ignore messages or emails from recruiters, even during the last two months. Sure, most of the jobs advertised ar
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by angarg12 7y ago
I got a tiny one of these. One time I was writing some code in C. I found a bug, the solution seemed pretty obvious, so I fixed it, recompiled the code, and ran it again. The bug was still there. I took a look at the rest of the code in cas
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by angarg12 7y ago
I live in England and I'm married to a Brit, and I still make hilarious mistakes and cause silly misunderstandings. Would it be better if I wrote or spoke an ice-cold perfect English? I don't think so. I'm proficient in Engli
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by angarg12 7y ago
Once upon a time I used to have 6 to 10 (3-5 double Espressos). Nowadays I tend to have 4, 1 double Espresso for breakfast and two Americanos, one mid morning and another one after lunch. Despite what others say I never had headaches or oth
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by angarg12 7y ago
Software Engineering hiring is broken in more subtle ways. Recently I went through the process of an internal transfer in my company. I applied to a team and went through a loop, just like an external candidate would. I got rejected by that
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by angarg12 7y ago
My piece of advice is this: if you are fortunate enough to keep your job during a recession, be ready to look for a new job quickly after the recovery. I kept my job during the 2008 meltdown, and I suffered from a bad case of salary compres
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by angarg12 7y ago
> The theory of lockdown, after all, is pretty niche, deeply illiberal — and, until now, untested. It’s not Sweden that’s conducting a mass experiment. It’s everyone else. I don't buy that. China did a lockdown, and (at least offic
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by angarg12 7y ago
I think comparing Singapore, a tiny, highly urbanized island nation, with the US, a continent size country with a vast number of points of entry, is a little bit apples to oranges. Don't get me wrong, I do think that some Asian countri
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by angarg12 7y ago
Work from home effectively.

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