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by dunpeal 8y ago
> I have, however, seen lots of junior interviewers ask idiotic questions and wash candidates out for bad reasons Why are "juniors" interviewing candidates? Let alone juniors asking "idiotic questions", and having de
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> In my experience, someone who really wants to code and shows a minimum viable capacity for doing so is the person I want to hire. My comment referred specifically to candidates with at least one year of full-time hands-on development e
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Most engineering interviewees fail to advance because of cultural/personality/communication issues and not technical competence. Not my experience. At least when hiring for programming positions, the typical fatal issue is th
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> The number one reason companies cite for not sending feedback is legal risk. Interestingly, I don’t think this is true. Companies put themselves at legal risk if they are rejecting candidates for illegitimate reasons, like race, gender
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Unfortunately, it's not unusual for large corporations to invest millions or even billions into new R&D projects that yield no results. This is especially true for high technology projects, and only becoming more of a risk as techn
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> The web itself could have been killed in the cradle on day one. The web is such a killer app, that if MS blocked it, it would be a problem for MS, not the web, imho. Also IANAL, but given that MS launched a competing service - The Micr
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I'm guessing not a lot. Japan is notorious for very formal work culture, very long "working" hours (really, "working" just means "staying in the office" - it's customary not to leave the office before
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Indeed, but many of the optimizations introduced by PyPy should be visible regardless of compilation target.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Shouldn't be too surprising, given how PyPy is generally faster than CPython by about x7-8 factor: http://speed.pypy.org/ I'd expect a much larger difference in tasks that are pure Python (loading a CSV is done pr
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Despicable. Seems like MA is one of the worst states as far as non-compete enforcement goes. I remember reading analysis that non-competes would generally be unenforceable against terminated employees even in states that do typically enforc
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by dunpeal 8y ago
50% salary isn't adequate protection. Imagine taking a 50% salary cut to change jobs. Pretty much pulls the rug under any motivation to do that. Of course, that's also 50% of base . For the type of well-performing employee agains
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Interesting, do you have a link?
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50% is a huge paycut. Most people won't voluntarily accept that, so it's hardly an adequate protection. For what it's worth, in states that do require compensation for non-competes, that compensation is typically about the sa
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I'm not so sure it's a "start". They had a chance to fix it, and they chose to legislate protections that fall short of that. From a lawmaking perspective, it can be construed as "we looked at the issue, and found l
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Better than nothing, but one year is ages in technology. Imagine you're working on cutting-edge technology, get an offer to lead a team or maybe a whole startup... but you have to wait a year. For most startups, that's a deal-br
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Exactly. It's a nightmare scenario: you're a well-performing, well-paid (but still underpaid) Amazon employee. You change jobs for much better pay... But then Amazon sues. Typically, you'll lose your new job, and probably bec
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Yes. Amazon sued former employees, for example: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/business-personal-amazon-web-s...
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by dunpeal 8y ago
As the Geekwire article mentions, it's a scare tactic: don't try to leave for a direct competitor, or a business we particularly dislike - or you might end up spending the next several years in courts and out of a job. Who knows h
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I'd expect Amazon to fight you hard. They take their non-competes very seriously. I had friends get offers for senior positions, successfully negotiate every aspect of the package - especially substantial pay increases - yet fail to ge
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Too little, too late. It only protects "minors, students, and low-wage workers". So non-competes against most of us reading this article are still perfectly enforceable. It's good that they're protecting the weakest clas
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by dunpeal 8y ago
With the massive size of their infrastructure, I'm guessing it would be very difficult to conclusively identify a single query, let alone attribute it to Bing. Also, the process you describe isn't conclusive, since it's possi
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I'm guessing they don't care so much because most of their paying users are captive audience. If your work decides to use slack, it's not like you can't opt-out. So they focus more on server-side features that ensure the
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I wonder what the score would be if Facebook users were to rate its trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> I'm not arguing that the startup industry isn't shady, I'm arguing that it is and, much like the shady used car industry, and much like you said, you can totally find good deals if you know what you're doing. Are yo
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> You need to put yourself in a position where being deceived is fraud. > > How much the employer hypes the position doesn't even come into the equation. I don't really understand why you think it's an important thin
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Hmmm...I think the part that is maybe missing from your model is that the value is not hypothetical and made up, you need to price the certainty into the value itself when negotiating the offer. If you are given very little information
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Isn't this true about life in general? Even when you go interview at bigco they are lying to you about your position and how great the work/life balance is etc. No, it's not. Because if they tell you their work-life bala
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Most startups are not worth working at. I agree completely, which is why I stopped working at startups myself. The question was about how startups are in general, so we must acknowledge that wildly optimistic equity value expectations
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> If a founder is selling you on anything but a very sober view of the stock that's a great signal to not join the company. Have you interviewed in many startups? "Sober view" is not what you'd get from a founder har
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Not being the first to quote a number just means that - letting them bring up the first number. It doesn't mean flying out for an onsite without knowing if they can match your pay. That's obviously silly.

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