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i’m always surprised the first thing people think is that other people are lying, and than if they cannot answer a question right on the spot they must be lying. there must be some name for this in the domain of human behaviour or psycholog
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3y ago
i think this is the result of companies using ATS
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3y ago
Don't be ashamed of telling them what you do. It's their problem, not yours. Also, be aware that you will invite questions such as "can you fix my computer" and "what computer should i buy" if you do tell the t
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3y ago
where can i buy the testing kit?
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3y ago
borrowed money with personal guarantee to pay for marketing and to hire people?
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3y ago
I have kaiser and never had these problems.
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3y ago
how can you bootstrap a confectionary business to 100m? curious how that was possible at all to pay for marketing/sales in a cutthroat industry like the food business
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3y ago
print it all on paper and design and code on paper.
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3y ago
my theory is that they have been created artificially to achieve certain economic goals
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3y ago
i bootstrapped a hw business and looking back i regret it. i thought i could raise at a better valuation later, and trusted this logic after reading about it on hackernews years ago. however what i found is that the investors i pitched once
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3y ago
the market is not competitive there is just artificial scarcity and recruitment games which have been created on purpose
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3y ago
you can just stream the audio over your network, there is software for that that can do it low latency
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3y ago
it’s more like they don’t understand what matters in mobile because ads is all they know and as long as they can sell ads nobody cares
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3y ago
do you think i have time or energy to go grind leetcode for 6 months?
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3y ago
they shortcut me to just a few interviews rather than the full 7 interview cycle. but i failed the typical leetcode trick question so no deal.
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3y ago
i still don’t get why people don’t sign up for kaiser if they have no health care.
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3y ago
i interviewed for a role to solve the latency issues. i brought 20 years of experience to the table. i could not solve their cute leetcode question in 2 min so i was out. i had the solution to their latency issues in my pocket. good luck to
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3y ago
maybe you should start by not eating the same thing every day
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3y ago
googlers can only pass leetcode, they can’t actually build anything that works, because that requires experience, and that is not what they hire for
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3y ago
I studied CS and graduated top of my class and have 20 years of experience and learnt the past couple of years that now all that matters is grinding leetcode and my degree and experience are mostly ignored.
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3y ago
i thought, here is a guy building an electrical transformer by hand, but no, more AI shite
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3y ago
when devs turned into weak frontend wannabes
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3y ago
why would you buy this?
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3y ago
in my career of 20 years i have never needed to sort anything
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3y ago
cabin in the woods - what is everyone’s favourite wooded state/city/county to escape to and where you could potentially live longer term?
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Ask HN: How do you deal with never ending noise and distraction WFH?
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3y ago
read books on marketing, sales and negotiation
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3y ago
the problem is that leetcode style interviews are used by all companies now and not a % of the market. what you fail to see just like most other engineers is that it is being used to discriminate and as a tool for keeping compensation under
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3y ago
yeah, and the test is not relevant, so it should no longer be used, and instead people should be hired on past projects and skills, perhaps on a 2 week trial.
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3y ago
if you just need to apply standard patterns than you are not actually inventing but just doing code monkey stuff, and you can’t really call that engineering
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