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by b20000 4y ago
because it is a way for the companies to wear you out such that by the time you get to the offer stage you take whatever offer they give you.
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by b20000 4y ago
you forgot to mention that you don't care about their experience relevant for the position, other projects they completed succesfully on their own, code they have written themselves for these projects, and you also forget to mention th
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by b20000 4y ago
that doesn’t really matter. leetcode interviews are about producing the solution the interviewer expects.
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by b20000 4y ago
thanks, since AI is not capable of generating novel/unique output itself yet without training, but can only learn to remix and transform what is already there, it makes sense that it would do well on leetcode. this implies that hiring
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by b20000 4y ago
crickets i can’t be the only one here doing ML outside of python?
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by b20000 4y ago
kudos for identifying the root cause of the situation - leetcode. that aside, it all begins with saying no and only taking on a realistic workload. saying no and negotiating are key skills we all need. unfortunately a lot of us go along wit
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by b20000 4y ago
So what does this mean for all of us who buy coffee at coffee shops every morning? Will this cause serious problems long term since we are consuming residues of their dishwasher chemicals? One potential solution is to always get your coffee
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by b20000 4y ago
If you are making 40K in india, where the cost of living is extremely low, why would you want to move?
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Ask HN: State of the art reinforcement learning libraries for C++?
2 points by b20000 4y ago|1 comments
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by b20000 4y ago
leetcode is skewed toward people who have the time and energy to endlessly grind and practice until they can answer your irrelevant cute coding trick question in under 2 minutes. there, you see what I did? none of what you wrote above makes
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by b20000 4y ago
because they don't want to pay for your experience, and because engineers interviewing engineers quickly results in some kind of "who is smarter" competition, which eventually drives down the cost of hiring... and unfortunate
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by b20000 4y ago
yeah, that explains why a lot of software made in FAANG is shit and why google scraps products constantly.
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by b20000 4y ago
that is not a lot of money in california but rather what you need to have a normal lifestyle, be able to buy a house and put kids in school. to be a good SWE you do need experience, a CS degree, coding skills, social skills, creativity, and
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by b20000 4y ago
define a lot of money in my experience even for staff engineer or principal they want leetcode BS interviews regardless of what you think, for every engineer you can find an executive or marketing person better compensated.
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by b20000 4y ago
that the wars stop, that inflation comes down, that the cost of living decreases in california and that covid gets erradicated and that we have friendly productive relationships with other major powers
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by b20000 4y ago
it is because they adopted leetcode to screen people all the competent engineers who have no time for irrelevant repetitive code interviews were filtered out
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by b20000 4y ago
OK, but what specifically was special about Cook that Jobs hired him with the idea to take over, rather than promoting anyone else working at Apple at the time to the role?
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Ask HN: Why and how did Tim Cook become Apple's CEO?
2 points by b20000 4y ago|4 comments
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by b20000 4y ago
any info on kernel config, drivers, rootfs etc used?
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by b20000 4y ago
grinding leetcode to prep for interviews takes a lot more time. how can you have a CS degree and a career and have no personal projects? i graduated in CS with 4 programming projects done. all the arguments you give are the same for leetco
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by b20000 4y ago
If you cannot manage to build something in a few weeks time in your spare time then there is absolutely no way you can be "the best".
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by b20000 4y ago
Realtors control the pricing, and will continue to drive the prices up. The state profits via excessive property taxes, so they are in the same camp as the realtors. The compensation in FAANG is what is required to have a normal and comfort
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by b20000 4y ago
I am self employed so I can sign off on anything.
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by b20000 4y ago
Evaluate people on past projects. If you have a project, show the code and walk through the code in a screen sharing session. Only show code that is non-confidential. If you do not have code, then first create a small project. That can be d
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by b20000 4y ago
It sounds like you never had to deal with a mental health issue and have a personality that is compatible with the process. That is great. Not everyone has that luxury. Many engineers are introverted people, possibly dealing with things lik
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by b20000 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blocker#Performance-enhan... This post is an alarming data point showing that leetcode style interviews are damaging to people's health and need to be removed as soon as possible
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by b20000 4y ago
so is the cost of living in california coming down then?
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by b20000 4y ago
Consider the possibility that after integrating all the APIs of the off the shelf solutions you might be confronted with bottlenecks or other limitations you were not aware of when you made the decision. Therefore the safer route might be
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by b20000 4y ago
TLDR use a robust c++ toolkit like QT and spend more time on what matters.
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by b20000 4y ago
ok, so you just confirmed rust does some stuff behind the scenes for you. and that comes at a cost. what is more important is to understand how to architecturally build software and achieve performance and maintainability and so on. i rathe

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