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by gcheong 5y ago
"I don't think I am ever gonna job hunting again." That's what I thought about the job I came to SF for 20 years ago. Then 6 years in they got bought out and I got laid off. They weren't even a tech company. My care
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by gcheong 5y ago
I think the value is mainly in the feedback you get which can help if you have a specific problem you might not be aware of. The problem with just going out on interviews is that you never get any real feedback so you are left to your own a
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by gcheong 5y ago
Does this happen in any other field? If I was a doctor and wanted to work at some other company, would I need to study the MCAT every year in order to pass a screening interview based on one possible question? What's the equivalent in
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by gcheong 5y ago
"Of course, the really interesting question in all of this is the holy grail of technical recruiting: Does performance in interviews reliably predict on-the-job performance? " And until you can really say for sure this is the case
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by gcheong 5y ago
This is why I don't believe it when companies say they are desperate to hire.
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by gcheong 5y ago
"If things go well, they skip right to the technical interview at real companies (which is also fully anonymous)." So the most I'll get out of this is to skip the initial screening interview and jump straight to the "rea
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by gcheong 5y ago
That's the point at which you launch your bid for congress.
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by gcheong 5y ago
I don’t know what is meant by abysmally long but it seems they are trying to rectify some of the shortcomings. It’s certainly better than nothing at all and I would hope if you’re imminently suicidal that that would put you in the urgent ca
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by gcheong 5y ago
I don’t know if Pete was working from Scotland in which case he would have had access to NHS, but if not, then I’m all the more convinced that we need such a system in the US so nobody need depend on their company status to have access to w
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by gcheong 5y ago
"I think he feels inspired by seeing me thrive as a contractor, with access to a global marketplace and seemingly endless working opportunities." Well there you go, teach him to code and then get some contracts that you can give h
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by gcheong 5y ago
Try posting on a FB BuyNothing group for your area if there is one. I've seen rides given for things like this and other things (like taking trip down to the South Bay to go to the only remaining Arby's).
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by gcheong 5y ago
Not in any way affiliated with them but “Snowtrack is the intuitive versioning tool for creatives.”: https://snowtrack.io/about.html
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by gcheong 5y ago
If they’re asking you to explain the time and/or space complexity of your solution in terms of “Big O”, which is something you’d learn in an algorithms class, that’s a good clue. The most recent interview I had asked me to determine t
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by gcheong 5y ago
I wouldn’t think it would be the most efficient but if you’re worried more about accepting a bad hire than rejecting a good one efficiency isn’t the primary metric.
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by gcheong 5y ago
That’s how it should work but it seems to have largely gravitated toward, not rewarding memorization exactly, but definitely pattern recognition gained from drilling on a wide arrangement of leetcode style problems, and as much as they say
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by gcheong 5y ago
What’s missing from all these speculations about the best way to hire is any tracking of the applicants performance after the hire. If you showed me data that said that the highest percentage of candidates that do well at the company all di
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by gcheong 5y ago
Anecdotally, most of the farmers I know and others in similar industries (fishing, logging) are climate-change deniers. They're too worried about their immediate bottom-lines and fighting any attempted regulations they think will affec
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by gcheong 5y ago
We are a species that is as of yet not very good at long term planning and consensus. All of our physical and cultural evolution to date has more or less revolved around dealing with relatively immediate threats or short-term goals. So it w
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by gcheong 5y ago
I was never under the impression that she was a real person. I just assumed she was a marketing persona ala Betty Crocker et al.
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by gcheong 5y ago
I don't know what it is about induction that makes a rheostatic-like control unfeasible but the most I've seen is about 20 levels so you might be waiting a while.
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by gcheong 5y ago
Are there any like that anywhere? I would think part of the problem is that induction settings are usually in discrete steps so a knob, which is what I assume you mean by physical control, may not be any better than a simple +\- control and
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by gcheong 5y ago
Also very nondeterministic
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If you're set on a particular breed also consider a rescue that specializes in that breed if there is one.
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by gcheong 5y ago
Great story though I initially thought you meant you wrote a script that paid off your house :).
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by gcheong 5y ago
It certainly feels like we’re having something of a Dr. Strangelove moment at this point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
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by gcheong 5y ago
Yeah it has all the hallmarks of “we can build a fully automated plant - well turns out that humans are still way better at some things”. I hope they figure out if this path is a dead end, at least in the short term, or not sooner than late
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by gcheong 5y ago
In their quest to find a solution they simply recreate the problem with a slightly better approximation of an actual work sample evaluation. It’s like watching a Newtonian approximation algorithm.
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by gcheong 5y ago
The industry recreates the problem every so often with different variants. Previously it was the Microsoft/Google “thought problems” such as “Why are manhole covers round?” and “How would you estimate the number of gas stations in a ci
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Epic, Apple, and Our Small Knitting App(craftindustryalliance.org)
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Brains do not slow down until after age of 60(theguardian.com)
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