danrocks

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by danrocks 5y ago
That's what my wife said as well. I would still understand this, except the "when can you start?" and the ghosting part.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Somehow this is even worse than what I went through. At least I didn't get stood up in person.
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by danrocks 5y ago
The references were checked by the hiring manager. The congratulations were also extended by the hiring manager. So it’s hard to pin this on the recruiter. Also no agency was used, it was all internal.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by danrocks 5y ago
I wish I had the finances to be able to deliver this burn.
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by danrocks 5y ago
I also hire a lot of people and I tend to agree with you. It’s hard to think that I misunderstood the process, however, when a start date was mentioned.
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by danrocks 5y ago
This was also said in the post-loop interview. After I was approved and congratulated. Makes zero sense in my book.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Wow
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by danrocks 5y ago
Standard behavioral questions not particularly challenging. The most striking thing is that there is no drill down: questions are independent of each other and interviewers don’t follow-up on the answers, making it hard to establish a conve
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by danrocks 5y ago
Well one of the people I interviewed for one of my manager openings said, when asked on the motivation to apply: “too many surprise layoffs in banks”. I guess he was right.
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by danrocks 5y ago
As someone who had kids in their 40s: this is the correct observation.
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by danrocks 5y ago
I’m a manager of managers at my current big tech employer and here we are still required to be quite technical. I’d think that a startup 1/25 the size would benefit from this approach, hence my surprise. I don’t know how to do pivot ta
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by danrocks 5y ago
I thought about it but the recruiter said the feedback was positive, so much so that another hiring manager saw it and wanted to talk about another position. Even if that had happened, ghosting would hardly be a good course of action, but I
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Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe
1703 points by danrocks 5y ago|655 comments
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by danrocks 5y ago
Sure. I happen to live in Hong Kong, where there is very little space. Shall we then just throw the excess population in the sea?
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by danrocks 5y ago
If you are asking that question, you already expect a certain answer to fit your beliefs and values. Therefore you are already biased and belong nowhere near a fair interviewing process.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Exceptional detective work here.
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by danrocks 5y ago
I read it and while I appreciate the speaking up, this retro does not look nearly as good as the poster thinks it does. First, it is written from a perspective of "I/we know better, they didn't listen to us, they're inco
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by danrocks 5y ago
But hey you don't get to demonize social media by sharing positive news.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Fabulously well put.
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by danrocks 5y ago
By "our current situation" I supposed you mean the US. If so, I fail to see where the parallels are.
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by danrocks 5y ago
> It may not surprise you to learn that the Devoted Conservatives were the whitest of all seven groups (88% white), but would you have expected that the Progressive Activists were the second whitest (80%)? I am surprised that the author
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by danrocks 5y ago
I am here to say the same thing. From Hong Kong, where I live, all results are links to e-commerce sites in the region, no pinterest results at all.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Which is going to be a lot better for the middle class in the area then the situation pre-Zillow iBuyer (given the massive discounts). Zillow was a net-positive at least for the Phoenix market.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Maybe some reinforcement learning algorithm running as well, where the maximum reward is winning the bid. Hence the algorithm just goes and lays waste on other bidders. Gotta get that infinite reward!
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by danrocks 5y ago
Your interview process page doesn't mention anything about engineering. Seems to have been made for consultants only.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Beautiful product.
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by danrocks 5y ago
Tether can't be real because it's a scam, not because it has X employees.
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by danrocks 5y ago
> I read your comment as “yes I prefer life to be easier and complacent over difficult and interesting.” A bit unrelated but this reminded me of Slavoj Žižek's "Why be happy when you could be interesting?". https:/&#
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by danrocks 5y ago
"Common Prosperity" is a marketing label to try to legitimize persecution of high tech billionaires who own platforms whose success/failure could destabilize the government. All of the major Chinese tech companies have create

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