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by fsk 11y ago
The only way you can truly be sure of your hiring process is to pick a random sample of people who fail, and hire them anyway. I see a couple of issues with this: - Could it get you in legal trouble? - Are you capable of evaluating who are
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by fsk 11y ago
Here's what happens at my current job: The boss assigns me 5 tasks. I ask him what is the priority (offering my guess). He tells me the priority, and I do them in that order, and he understands that the low-ranking stuff might not ha
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by fsk 11y ago
Rule of thumb: If you are sure you are going to be living in the same place for more than 7-10 years, buy. Otherwise rent. Remember that, instead of buying, you can rent and invest the difference. If you made a spreadsheet with all fees a
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by fsk 11y ago
People should be allowed to make any sort of private contract they want (as long as they don't hurt anyone else). Why are marriage contracts any of the government's business?
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by fsk 11y ago
I haven't seen cubicles in awhile. It's been all open offices, every place I interviewed in the past several years.
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by fsk 11y ago
I thought MS was planning to phase out private offices and go open office for everyone?
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by fsk 11y ago
That's one advantage of bootstrapping. When you do decide to raise money, you can make sure you cash out some of your own shares as part of the deal. Since they were already cashflow positive, they were free to say "no deal!&quot
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by fsk 11y ago
How much of a time commitment is it for the candidate? I.e. are you expecting a 20 hour coding test?
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by fsk 11y ago
If it's free for candidates, how do you make money?
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by fsk 11y ago
He missed my favorite sleazy tactic. One of these technical recruiting companies is advertising a job ... and you have to sign up for it with their alpha system. It usually is so buggy that I can't complete the process.
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by fsk 11y ago
Why are universities graduating people who can't pass programming 101? Why are they so grossly negligent? They diluted the value of my degree, by graduating too many clueless people. I did lots of problem sets, homework, and coding p
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by fsk 11y ago
>> ...we can't afford to send people we're unsure about to companies >Does every applicant in this system really have to go through four rounds of screening before even talking to someone who works at the actual company?
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by fsk 11y ago
Why are those people getting CS degrees? Shouldn't they get flunked out? When schools allow students to do coding projects in groups, it's possible to graduate with ZERO ability, provided you can find someone competent to partner
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by fsk 11y ago
When you get a coding assignment, you have no idea if they're going to give honest feedback if you submit a solution, or if they're just going to say "Thanks for applying, but we decided to go in a different direction."
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by fsk 11y ago
If only there was some way that people could spend a couple of years proving they had basic competence, so they didn't have to prove basic skills on every interview. Why did I get a CS degree if every interview starts with the assumpti
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by fsk 11y ago
If 90% of the people pass the take home test, then why was that step necessary in the first place? I've also soured on take-home test. I recently did a C/C++ one, I know I aced it, and I didn't even get a phone interview. I
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by fsk 11y ago
Trillions of dollars in bank bailouts? The military/industrial complex? The prison/judicial complex? For example, approximately 0.5% of the NYC population works for the NYPD. So, a tax rate of 0.5% should be sufficient to maintai
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by fsk 11y ago
That only costs a couple of percent. The rest is waste/fraud/theft.
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by fsk 11y ago
Don't forget taxes. If your total taxation rate is more than 50%, then you're spending half your working hours for yourself, and the other half working as a slave for the government. Add up income taxes, property taxes, sales tax
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by fsk 11y ago
Once they were a success, investors did come soliciting. They didn't need it, as they had sufficient cashflow. If Notch had solicited VC before he was a hit, the VCs probably would have just laughed him out of their office.
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by fsk 11y ago
You can get a gaming unicorn (Minecraft). However, Mojang didn't start getting interest from investors until they had enough cashflow to sustain their own growth. There have been some recent IPO successes (Zygna, King). (And king.com
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by fsk 11y ago
Don't aim for 1 word english domain names. Those are taken and you'll pay big $$$. Instead, pick a 2 or 3 word phrase that describes your project, and use that. Another tip: Don't do a "domain availability check" u
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by fsk 11y ago
If a superrich person was hanging around with an average joe (or even a 1%er), it would be an unequal relationship. It's like asking why supermodels don't hang out in ordinary bars.
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by fsk 11y ago
If more people said "This test is insulting!" and walked out, then employers would eventually get the hint. Also, I'm saying that, if an employer uses the Wonderlic test (or any other 3rd party test), it's negatively cor
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by fsk 11y ago
In a free market, there never is a shortage. There only are people who don't want to pay the market rate. If your candidate pool is people "recent college graduates with experience in exactly the technologies we are using",
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by fsk 11y ago
Is he expecting you to answer at 3am? If he expects you to answer at 3am, it's time to find a new job. If he's willing to wait to get an answer, then don't worry about it. I turn of the sound and vibrate on my phone, so I don
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by fsk 11y ago
Are you serious? Not only are people expected to know algorithm brainteasers for interviews, they're also expected to practice every stupid IQ test ever invented? Instead of studying for interviews, focus on something useful, like lea
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by fsk 11y ago
For a year, I had two part-time contracts, one for 3 days a week and one for 1 day a week. It was nice to have an extra relaxation day per week. It wound up ending when I got a full-time job for a 30% hourly increase. It also made it easy
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by fsk 11y ago
As South Park said, this is the problem with all freemium games. You need to make the game somewhat fun (so people will pay), but not too much fun (so people don't feel obligated to pay more so it's more fun). When you design a f
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by fsk 11y ago
I don't know why someone downvoted this. The wonderlic test IS ridiculous.

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