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by danrocks 5y ago
I feel 3rd party recruiters are such a massive waste of time and a drag on the overall process. Has anyone built a true job search engine that simply links back to the original company's site (instead of some recruiting agency)? It s
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Some courses are trash: Computer Networks, Knowledge Based AI, Databases, System Design. Others are amazing: Big Data for Health, AI, Compilers, Deep Learning, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture. All in all, for the price (and the rig
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by danrocks 5y ago
Not the person you asked, but I've done the same. The answer: you have to choose the classes well. If you go with some easy classes for credit, you will be disappointed. If you decide to really do the program, then there are at least 1
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by danrocks 5y ago
This made me laugh out loud. Tourette's Guy was my first Internet obsession back in the late 90s.
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The camel would be an upgrade to the Land Rover, though.
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I agree with the premise here. If she does get 20 years, then Sunny Balwani is going to get the chair.
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It does not give me imposter syndrome. It just tells me I know absolutely nothing despite having a so-called advanced degree from "a top school". God damn it.
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Pinterest does not belong in this category. It belongs in the “Internet cancer” category.
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Maybe, or grass is greener? Also don’t know if I would pass IC technical interviews after so many years as manager. The leetcode grind seems out of reach for me now.
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Yep this. Trust, but verify. If a manager (or IC, for that matter) is failing in my org, then it is absolutely my problem. VPs won’t accept “these were by my buttons to push” as an excuse.
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In general, yes. I sleep a tiny bit better when someone takes something over from me. If they complete that well, I will go to bat for them to get them recognized.
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I have two problems with this suggestion: - Director should be technical / Team Leads should be technical, but the person between them shouldn't? That sounds like a recipe for going behind the EM's back at every possible junc
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> Fwiw I’ve spent the past few years pondering going back to being an IC to reduce stress. There’s probably a grass is greener effect here. If you are a good manager now, you will let it transpire in your IC work and you will eventually
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by danrocks 5y ago
I am a manager of managers. Haven't taken any vacations of more than 5 days since 2011. Constantly worry about my technical skills becoming obsolete - hence I have to do coding on the side. Constantly worry about whether my managers wi
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It’s an interest contradiction: the so-called “wolf warrior” diplomats and CCP apparatchiks go out of their way to project China as this mighty invincible superpower, yet when some 17 year old says “Congratulations to the Taiwan national at
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by danrocks 5y ago
This looks nice! What do the end results look like when used on devices with different screen sizes and resolutions?
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> Given the above, is there any reason to believe there is anything more to this story than that Stripe's hiring arm is really disorganized, and some people got offers who should not have, and those offers had to be rescinded? This
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by danrocks 5y ago
For what is worth: I didn't even know what Protocol was prior to their offer to talk to me, which is publicly made in the original thread. So I never spoke with them and have no reason to. Stripe replied to my post, I replied with the
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by danrocks 5y ago
This is the experience I reported in my original post. Surprise. You get a business class ticket, you go to the gate, have your boarding passes checked out, then the plane leaves without you. :)
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I actually replied to Patrick via e-mail; I have zero reason to be anonymous.
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> It’s just poor form. This. This is what I meant with this post above. Poor form. Incompatible with the supposed criticality of the position at stake. I still think Stripe is a great company, was just disappointed at being ignored after
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> most rational explanation for OPs issue is that references were checked and came back luke warm/negative, so more were done which delayed it etc (they may not tell you this was the reason to protect sources btw), this is one of ma
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This sounds painful.
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> You're applying for managers of managers role > Which means you're probably going to need to know how to deal with ambiguity and difficult people situations I wonder if organizations would be better if we all did that? Th
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I myself did 40 interviews last quarter and it was very hard to keep all conversations engaging and interesting. Fortunately having a modicum of standardizing feedback + topics to be covered helps, but I agree with your point that over-inte
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> It’s clear in your text. Is it? To me it reads just like a blow-by-blow description of the situation. There is almost no personal commentary, other than a couple that aim (and probably fail) at being funny. But to each his/her own
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It is actually the name of the position. Engineering MoM. It's funny and leads to some weird Google searches.
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Or, in this case, an infinite amount of time :D
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Interviewed. Passed. Congratulated. Asked for start date. Ghosted.
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Well, I see what you mean, having worked in the US, but this wasn't in the US. Maybe flowery noncommittal has become a global phenomenon? If so, I'll have trouble navigating it.

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