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by borroka 6y ago
"They just want some stability, substance over form, hate silly hype, hate self-proclaimed gurus, hate clueless HR managers." - Why, following your description, my mind goes to grumpy folks who cannot understand how other people d
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by borroka 6y ago
Which in other languages is translated as someone who has interest or passion for an activity, but they are not very good at it.
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by borroka 6y ago
But people who get disillusioned with tech are not people who don't want to talk about "JS frameworks" or similar tech topics. Quite the contrary, they want their view to win, broadly speaking, in the conversation or the depl
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by borroka 6y ago
And also, in some jobs, having a PhD puts you at a higher starting point even for the first job than other non-PhD holders, whatever the PhD. The mistake most PhDs make when going into the tech industry, especially when coming from non-trad
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by borroka 6y ago
It should be the default assumption. It is difficult to believe how otherwise-astute people can fall into the feeling-good traps of "talent can beat everything" or "you need to want it more". PEDs get the user a very sub
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by borroka 6y ago
Unpopular, but I agree. The writer comes off as terribly weak. I read about his personal and health challenges, but I think that would be an even bigger motivation not to let this deranged (according to the doc) board member going on with t
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by borroka 6y ago
It may or may not be fraudulent, but please keep in mind that certain US states have ~ 40% obesity rates. It sounds obvious to the non-obese that eating like there is no tomorrow is not conducive to a good life; and simple measures, like ea
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by borroka 6y ago
The harsh reality of life, for the many who tend to be too deep in their thoughts, is that if intellectuals spent more time on their looks (which, when they are good, are per se charismatic and persuasive), their "so good" ideas w
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by borroka 6y ago
It happened to me exactly once (and the sample size is big enough) that a date was turned off by me being in tech. It happens. And it happens much more frequently when being in tech is part of your identity, like being actively in politics,
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It depends how good looking the techie is
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by borroka 6y ago
Let me clarify. Most managers I have seen in tech are sub-par. So, it might be that it is not that the hiring problem is a process problem, or a market problem, but a manager-quality problem. Of course, I can present only anecdotes from my
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by borroka 6y ago
If you think in terms of probability, there is no conflict. And that is also why "never do this if you want to get that" is often a necessary, but tautologically inaccurate, simplification.
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- "but it’s hard to actually step into the hiring manager position and find the best candidate without disappointing some people along the way" Hear me out: the quality of (hiring) managers in tech is ridiculously bad for the mone
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by borroka 6y ago
Plenty of European countries offer the same if not better technology, health service, and professionalism. I had 3 surgeries in the US, 2 were so and so, 1 was "botched" in one of the most prestigious hospitals in the US (Stanford
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by borroka 6y ago
My "genius" comment above was a bit salty and over the top. But, I had so many bad experiences with recruiters (of a company, independent) that is quite difficult at this point for me to take them seriously or offer any (professio
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by borroka 6y ago
Yes, it is not, but it should be. And not "the priority" of the organization, which is, as you said, making money, but one of the priorities. In fact, using the double KPI method, "finding great candidates and treating all w
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by borroka 6y ago
"The practical reality that a lot of people will have a suboptimal experience until we (both "we Stripe" and "we the industry") figure out more scalable ways to assess people." It is not inevitable and there ar
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It is unacceptable in theory, in practice it sounds like most of the ghosted in this thread would gladly work there, given the opportunity. Money and visibility (and beauty) make many sins forgiven. I had terrible interview experiences (rud
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I'd say the main difference for me is that I have no problem whatsoever understanding movies in my native language. I love watching movies and it is quite frustrating for me not being able to get the dialogue as clearly as I get it in
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I can parse the meaning fluently. I'd say I noticed English becoming its own entity (that is, I stopped translating a high speeds between my native language and English) a few years ago, although some days are better than others.
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I speak English and Spanish well, I'd say fluently (my native language is neither English nor Spanish). I studied English in high school (2 hours a week), but I first chatted with native speakers ~ 15 years ago. I have been living in t
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by borroka 6y ago
Better. 1) Not really. Not where I work, not where I worked in the past. Maybe somewhere, but if we are talking about tech, rejections can be very quick. 2) In some companies they made a list and they then go down if the top option(s) do no
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by borroka 6y ago
There are tech or tech-adjacent companies with tens of thousands of employees that have around for decades, when not 100+ years, who are corrupted in more than one meaning of the world. And they pay decently well, when not top 10%. I may ha
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That's the time when you switch to reading dead authors, who are blessed by the wisdom given to those with us no more.
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I used to think similarly. Then, a couple of years ago, in my mind I started to go back to my past. I now often think about my childhood, my grandparents, I look at the photos I took or other people took when I was doing what I loved doing,
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A decent generalist that nobody may want, though. You are right that "successful in data scientist roles would not be successful (or at least, much less so) either as programmers or statisticians", assuming they do not train a bit
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I disagree. It is one those things that are said once, repeated enough and make enough sense to be believed, although I suspect they are not true. If you combine an average programmer with an average statistician, you get a profile that is
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Fortune cookies syndrome, it affects millions.
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by borroka 6y ago
Tech interviews are an evergreen source of delight /s. I have been the interviewer and interviewee plenty. A few reflections. - I try hard, and I believe with a certain success, to follow a sound approach to interviewing. I read the re
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Most of the norms of behavior and goals we find — at first – desirable are often nothing more than what novelist and people of imagination have repeatedly written or spoken about. But life is not a romance novel, there are rarely happy endi

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