avl999

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by avl999 5y ago
I would consider looking for a new job on the side and start interviewing. Your boss's boss showed you disrespect and personally I would have a hard time trusting that person if I were in your shoes. Don't start any drama at work
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Many viruses with animal reservoirs jump between animals and humans all the time. The Flu virus does that all the time.
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That's reasonable, makes a lot of sense.
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I am not gonna die on a hill defending these types of interviews but they are infinitely better than the alternatives. Alternatives are often subjective criteria like "culture fit" which can lead to nepotism/other types of bi
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by avl999 5y ago
I would also add heaps/priority queues to this list. They don't come up as often as HashTables/LinkedLists but come up often enough. If you wanna be thorough (esp if you are applying at companies known for harder interviews)
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by avl999 5y ago
It looks like the province of New Brunswick is pursuing the "Don't Look Up" strategy in dealing with this. The federal government should step in and force the province's hand on investigating this.
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by avl999 5y ago
Keep a healthy work life balance, treat work like work and enjoy other things in my own time at time.
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by avl999 5y ago
GCP offers a similar machine for free- the E2-micro- 2CPUs but only 1 GB of RAM so if you can live with that you could save the $30 https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#always-free...
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by avl999 5y ago
GCP E2-micro compute instance- GCP gives it to you for free and is an excellent place to throw things up for which you don't expect much load.
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by avl999 5y ago
This is not a great. I used to listen to it late 2000s-early 2010s era and honestly it was one of the worst podcasts I have heard when it comes to begging for money. Think the Wikipedia call to donations banner times 20. Whenever there us
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by avl999 5y ago
Even a Java based gui written using the Swing toolkit (which I believe is considered ancient tech that most have moved on from although I haven't built a gui in java in ages so don't take my word for it) would be an improvement on
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by avl999 5y ago
These days it is rare for companies to force you to implement your solution in a specific language. Ruby is close enough to "normal looking code" that you'll be fine. Just stick with whatever you are most comfortable with. It
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by avl999 5y ago
> Forget Google etc. The truth is you will probably need to work 10 years at smaller places first to gain experience. Well technically all you need is to grind on LeetCode for 6 months to prepare for an interview to get the position. The
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by avl999 5y ago
> I recently got to final round interviews at Google (cold call from a recruiter who saw my resume in their slush pile), but I didn't get an offer. I was able to solve all of the problems (in Python), but apparently, my solutions we
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by avl999 5y ago
It's a trade off for sure. I have seen people write test code with no regards to DRY and it results in tests that are hundreds of lines of setup trying to wire up the inputs and the expectations when a little bit of thought to remove a
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by avl999 5y ago
The chapter on channels in Concurrency in Go https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/concurrency-in-go/97814... is a must read for anyone looking to write concurrent code in Go. There are many "rules"
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by avl999 5y ago
I'll be slightly contrarian here... the Go concurrency model is not the panacea and channels are overused. It works brilliantly for certain types of usecases (straightforward producer consumer usecases). But unfortunately in the early
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by avl999 5y ago
CDK is absolutely brilliant. My eyes glaze over when I see lines and lines and pages and pages of CloudFormation/Terraform config... sometimes spread over multiple files and having to manually join them in them head to get the full vie
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by avl999 5y ago
I worked there for ~5.5 years out of college, I left a couple of years ago to try something else but I would say that it is worth it was worth it for me. Your experience is gonna be dictated big time by your manager and your manager's
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by avl999 5y ago
I generally don't mind whiteboard programming interviews but even so asking someone to implement merge sort is a bad question. My sanity check for any question I ask is- Is the question I'm asking something that someone in the pas
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by avl999 5y ago
The best thing about Amazon is that it is still an old school website... like none of SPA crap that everyone (including places like Reddit that have no business being a SPA) keeps shoving down our throats. Amazon is fast, responsive and doe
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by avl999 5y ago
The interviewee already has their schedule booked off during that window, that extra 20 mins is not saving them any time. If your concern is their time, I would assume they'd "waste" more time stewing on an early interview ex
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by avl999 5y ago
That is extremely unprofessional and a bad look for the interviewer. I have done over a 100 interviews including some really bad ones, never have I ever cut one short. When you are interviewing you are representing the company, whenever I i
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by avl999 5y ago
I applied at Stripe a couple of years ago through their website when I was looking to switch jobs. The position I applied for was on one of their backend teams. I had 5.5 years of work experience at a FAANG, excellent university grades if t
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by avl999 5y ago
> jet brains is a massive offender here. it doesn't need to be. I have a giant machine ~128GB of RAM and 24 cores. the fact I have to tune my IDE is insane. You are doing something very wrong if that's the case. I have 2 big pr
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by avl999 5y ago
Weird article > How much do we need to know about a TV detective to be invested in a whodunnit? There are tons of shows that do exactly that. Turn on a random CBS procedural and you will get exactly that- 40 mins of by the numbers crime
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by avl999 5y ago
Exactly, why are you chasing promotions? Isn't it ok to be happy with where you are and have satisfaction? My title is Sr Software Engineer. My boss keeps bringing up in our 1 on 1s about what we should do to carve out a path for a pro
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by avl999 5y ago
The article is titled: Five Books that Changed My Career as a Software Engineer The operative words being "My Career". The article is a subjective listing of books that the author found to be useful in their career and at the s
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by avl999 5y ago
Google takes care of storing copies of any go dependency you use on their proxy, there is very little reason for you to maintain your own via vendoring. Maybe if you are a big enough organization you run your own proxy as an extra layer of
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by avl999 5y ago
These days with go mod and the go team maintaining their proxy there is very little benefit to vendoring and any benefit is not worth blowingup up the size of your repos and messing up code reviews on PRs that introduce new dependencies.

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