edhowzerblack

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Ask HN: CEO wants us to fill out NOT ANONYMOUS survey that only he can read
19 points by edhowzerblack 4y ago|59 comments
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by edhowzerblack 4y ago
I'm calling BS on this guy. This never happened. It's some incel fantasy of his. If it had happened, there would have been a MASSIVE lawsuit and this would have been a front-page story on every major news outlet.
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by edhowzerblack 5y ago
You will be exposed to a certain amount of social justice material at any company. At many companies this is just part of HR / compliance training. You sit through a day's worth of bullshit and then go back to your normal work. If
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Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?
471 points by edhowzerblack 5y ago|426 comments
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by edhowzerblack 5y ago
For some people it leads to issues. Here are some of the possible issues one can encounter: depression, anxiety, loss of motivation, psychosis, low testosterone, lack of energy / motivation, loss of concentration, short-term memory los
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by edhowzerblack 5y ago
A pension offers a guaranteed income at a specific rate based on your salary at the time you retire. With 401(k) you get what you get based on how you invested and what the market did.
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Ask HN: Tech Jobs with Pensions?
1 points by edhowzerblack 5y ago|5 comments
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by edhowzerblack 5y ago
Teams is shit.
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by edhowzerblack 6y ago
none
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by edhowzerblack 6y ago
This is completely ridiculous woke peacocking. If only an African-American activist woman can understand the poem well enough to translate it than why bother translating it into Catalan or Dutch in the first place? For according to their lo
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by edhowzerblack 6y ago
I don’t know what kind of issues black people in the UK face because I do not live there. But as someone who has lived in Brooklyn, NY for decades, I know about the biggest problems that black people in the US face because I see it all arou
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by edhowzerblack 7y ago
The disconnect is amplified even more when companies have onerous interview processes. If you require candidates to build an app for free, or some other time-consuming "take home" test a lot of candidates will simply ghost you bec
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by edhowzerblack 7y ago
Oh no! Someone touched someone on a dance floor! Crimes against humanity! Prepare the guillotine, heads most roll!
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
Indeed it is my friend. One more thing I'd like to share... A lot of companies start their process by having someone in HR reach out to the candidate. Often these calls provide little of no value to the candidate. They are simply anoth
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
So in the above reply I completely ignored the fact that he said the homework is only given to people who haven't worked with their tech stack. I also swore and went on a rant. Sorry! It's still something that needs to be said tho
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
That's nice. If your recruiter called me I would pass unless I happened to be unemployed. And even if I were unemployed, I'd tell your recruiter that I'm interested but I'd prioritize all of the other companies I'm
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
You can learn a lot about what a developer knows and is capable of by talking to them about the projects they worked on. Ask them detailed questions about the particular problems they dealt with on projects and how they were solved. Ask the
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
The talent shortage is absolutely imaginary. The hiring process is run by incompetent internal recruiters and competitive developers with Aspergers whose goal is to reject as many people as possible in order to prove that no one is as smart
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
As a developer who has recently been through the hiring process, I think the problem is not a shortage of talent, but rather that companies are awful at hiring. Here are a few of the main issues: 1. Don't limit your potential talent po
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
paywall
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
I have suffered from chronic depression since I was a teenager. I have been on anti-depressants for the past decade, although I am about ready to start weaning myself off of them (under a doctor's supervision of course). It sounds like
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
This is fascinating. I've wrestled with anxiety and depression my whole life. It seems quite intuitive to me that there is a gut link. I frequently experience "butterflies' in my stomach. I frequently have gas, too. I wonder
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
The flaws of live coding demos apply to remote code-pairing challenges as well, which is why I hate them with a passion.
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
jQuery hasn't been relevant in the front-end world for quite some time now.
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
Gradually decreasing your caffeine consumption until you reach a healthy level probably makes more sense than going cold turkey. The next time you get a coffee craving at work, stop and think about how you are feeling and what you really wa
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
The US did not invade Iraq during the first Gulf War specifically because they knew it would upset the balance of power in the region such that it would cause Iran to become more powerful. Unfortunately, our politicians and military are pro
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by edhowzerblack 8y ago
One thing that employers should keep in mind is that the candidates they would like connect with probably already have jobs. Many people I know simply do not reply to recruiters if they are adequately paid and reasonably happy in their curr