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by fsk 11y ago
Yeah, it's insulting to give that test for a programmer position. I've seen it a couple of times and it was always a bad job for other reasons also. Just to give you an idea, this is the exact same test they give to NFL players d
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by fsk 11y ago
You lost me at "12 hour unpaid coding homework project". There's no way I would do that, and it's disrespectful of the candidate's time.
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by fsk 11y ago
Actually, some of these "weird" things are due to the fact the he isn't using a bignum library, or not using it correctly, or doing insufficient iterations. He's really seeing floating point artifacts. For example, the
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by fsk 11y ago
Yeah, that approach has issues also. I wouldn't want to spend a week of free time on something unless it was a much higher rate than my regular job or an amazing opportunity. If you're expecting me to put in a lot of time BEFORE
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by fsk 11y ago
They expect you to study and be an expert in their niche before applying, which rules out people who don't already know their specialty, or aren't too desperate to spend weeks preparing for one interview.
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by fsk 11y ago
That's my issue with studying new things to further my career. There are SO MANY things. What should I pick? Also, most HR and headhunters say "Only on-the-job experience counts. If you learned it on your own, we don't va
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by fsk 11y ago
For now, just learn the basics (simple html, simple DOM manipulation, simple jQuery, simple CSS, simple Javascript). Those fancy frameworks are all going to be obsolete in 2 years anyway (i.e. angular 1.0). Besides, you need to know the ba
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by fsk 11y ago
They missed one of my favorite (least-abusive) tactics, the paid trial project. I.e., pick a real project that will take 10-40 hours. Pay them to do it as a contracting/interview project. That even works for someone who already has a
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by fsk 11y ago
That's only corporate bonds. Federal Reserve transactions are not publicly disclosed, which is one of the issues.
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by fsk 11y ago
The reason you have problems with markers is that, when a marker is out of ink, people put it back on the whiteboard instead of throwing it in the trash.
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by fsk 11y ago
A bank borrows at the Fed Funds Rate (say 0.1%) and buys one year Treasuries (currently 0.26%). On Treasury trades, banks can do leverage of 100x or more. So the bank's profit is 0.16 times 100 or 16%. If the Federal Reserve raised t
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by fsk 11y ago
The problem is that banks are leveraged to the hilt. If you have 30x leverage in 5 year duration bonds, and interest rates go up 1%, you lose 150%! ZIRP (0% interest rates) is a wealth transfer to big banks, a backdoor bailout.
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by fsk 11y ago
Those people were never going to buy anyway. There (hopefully) are enough people who want good games and are sick of the freemium garbage, that they'll pay for a game. I.e., 100k paid sales and 10M "unauthorized copies" is s
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by fsk 11y ago
Eventually, the pendulum will swing the other way. People will get sick of freemium games, and go back to games where you pay $1-$10 once. Some people made a lot of money with freemium, so everyone is copying them. I can't stand wait
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by fsk 11y ago
If you have 20% downside protection in a nearly even odds game, you can figure out the optimal strategy. Also, he was betting $100k a hand, so he didn't have to play too many hands before deciding to stop as a winner or take his 20% l
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by fsk 11y ago
1. Lots of unicorn corpses. They either get down rounds, fold completely, or get bought for much less than their last round's valuation. 2. It would be harder for new startups to raise money. The big losses in the unicorns would then
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by fsk 11y ago
If people are competing against their coworkers, management is doing it wrong.
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by fsk 11y ago
If you're a web programmer, then the easiest way is to do an HTML5/Javascript games. That's the closest to what you already know. Get him some books on html5 and javascript, or good web-based resources. Make a simple game wi
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by fsk 11y ago
The original slogan "It is better to reject a good candidate than hire a bad candidate." specifically says to make that fallacy. As long as good candidates are rare, and bad candidates have a small-but-nonzero chance of tricking y
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by fsk 11y ago
I haven't worked or interviewed at many places where management was competent enough to prevent that from happening. Example: I was working somewhere as an employee. They had a contractor, who was probably billing 3x as much hourly, w
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by fsk 11y ago
>Rationally speaking, the only people who should prefer interviewing to other things are the people that benefit from hiring talented people, which primarily is equity holders of the company. I've actually been burned by this one a
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by fsk 11y ago
The slogan represents the opposite. You hire only 10% of the good candidates but the odds of hiring a bad candidate are cut to only 0.5%.
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by fsk 11y ago
It's already been discussed, which is why I'm at the "very annoyed" point right now.
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by fsk 11y ago
Why would anyone who has a job waste a vacation day to interview at a place that previously rejected him? If your flawed process rejected a good candidate the first time around, what makes you think the same flawed process won't reject
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by fsk 11y ago
Idiot: We don't want to make any bad hires! Therefore, we reject a lot of good candidates! FSK: If you pass on many good candidates, and you have a small chance of hiring any given bad candidate, then each good candidate you reject ac
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by fsk 11y ago
This has got to be the biggest hiring fallacy I've ever heard. "It's better to reject a good candidate than hire a bad candidate." That's completely false, and anyone who says that is completely ignorant of Bayesia
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by fsk 11y ago
I'd rather spend a year learning Python or Go or whatever, instead of spending a year practicing interview questions. I never realized that some people put as much effort into practicing interview questions as I put into learning how t
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by fsk 11y ago
One of my coworkers listens to music on headphones all day, so loud I can hear it. It gets old fast. He also frequently smells like marijuana, a very strong smell. It is very annoying, I'm almost ready to walk out over it. He is the
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by fsk 11y ago
It's an IRS rule. Otherwise, the contractor could argue they were an employee and sue for back benefits. I think Microsoft got burned by this.
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by fsk 11y ago
When a late-stage investor gets to invest with a liquidation preference, that can ruin the value of the common shareholders (i.e., early employees) if the startup is not eventually sold for an even bigger valuation. I.e., the early employee

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