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by geebee 8y ago
Interestingly, I find that most employees and applicants in high tech accept this, that they've made their choice and will live with it. It's the tech companies that seem bitter about accepting the consequences of their own hiring
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by geebee 8y ago
That was a factor for me when I applied to Google. I asked for 4 weeks to interview - I should have asked for 4 months. I hit the algorithms textbook and I did CTCI questions, but I just wasn't ready. Whether I could get ready is an op
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by geebee 8y ago
Come to think of it, most of the math majors know (who didn't get PhDs and now work as programmers or data scientists) have forgotten the greater part of what they learned about groups/rings/lattices, and they seem to be doin
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by geebee 8y ago
I'll agree, you were making a more narrow point that there are in fact a lot of candidates who can't do extremely simple coding exercises (I agree about that as well) This assertion is often mis-used (a slight of hand to resolve t
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by geebee 8y ago
You should try interviewing as a software engineer with 10 years experience. They never ask you to double the value of each integer in an array. They ask you to find all matching subtrees in a binary tree, or to find all sub-matrices in an
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by geebee 8y ago
Interesting observation. There is a personal angle, and a group identity one. Some people tend to view personal decisions through the lense of group identity, especially as it pertains to power struggles between groups. Class struggle was a
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by geebee 8y ago
Well, sure, but if your goal was to create a vicious killing machine, would you be indifferent to the breed of the dog? Pits aren't good fighting jobs simply because people perceive them to be.
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by geebee 8y ago
Totally reasonable response. However, it seems like we're on an endless loop with this discussion. People talk about how they need technical interviews because someone who looks good on paper can't code reverse string, or write a
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by geebee 8y ago
Good blog post, nice write up of the conversation, but she left out the part at the end where the CEO bemoans the shortage of qualified software engineers.
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by geebee 8y ago
Over here in San Francisco, I find the problem isn't so much cars as curb cuts. "Curb cuts" are those little sections of the curb that are cut out so that cars can drive over the cross walk to get to driveways and garages. h
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by geebee 8y ago
good plan... but I think we hoping you would show us :)
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by geebee 8y ago
It may also be futile to try to have a meaningful concept and practice of professional ethics without professional autonomy. The ABA and AMA take a lot of heat here on HN and other libertarian-leaning forums, and some of it is deserved, sin
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by geebee 8y ago
That's almost certainly true, but interestingly, the list of elite schools does get shuffled up a bit at the grad level. Few undergrads would consider UCSD more of a prize than any Ivy, but as a graduate research program, it would be c
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by geebee 8y ago
IANAL, is there a legal distinction between unenforceable and not enforced as a matter of policy? The second could encompass a contract clause that is enforceable as a practical matter, but not considered desirable. The first could include
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by geebee 8y ago
400k is a little high, but not out of the question, I'd say you're a bit above the threshold for "can't" raise kids (but I'm basing this on SF, not NY, so might not fully apply here). I'll run the numbers
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by geebee 8y ago
That is kinda messed up, though I’d want to know more about his exit terms.
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by geebee 8y ago
White collar workers may actually work long and hard hours and be very exhausted by them. They may be unproductive, though. Or if they are “productive” in the sense that they complete a task, often the task itself adds little value. The whi
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by geebee 8y ago
Oh I fully agree that the long hours aren’t highly productive in the long run. I actually do think people work long and hard hours in the sense that they are exhausted and not chillin at the water cooler, but I doubt they’re terribly produc
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by geebee 8y ago
This data set suggests that workers in the US put in long hours. I’m on my phone and it isn’t sorted, doesn’t have China in there either. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_annual_labor... I suppose when y
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by geebee 8y ago
I think some of the problem is that people who use pandas don't necessarily know how to drop one level in programming. Like, if the file isn't a nicely formatted csv, they don't know how to read and parse the file directly. I
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by geebee 8y ago
I'm glad to see this post, and I'm glad front-end developers are starting to rebel against the nuttiness of what has happened in their corner of the web. I declared myself out a while ago. It took some digging in of the heels and
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by geebee 8y ago
I agree, you don't need data structures for fizz buzz. In fact, I think it would be tough to pass data structures if you weren't at the level where you could write fizzbuzz, so it's more or a pre-req. I have trouble imagining
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by geebee 8y ago
I don't understand this either. There is an interesting blog post that suggests maybe some programmers get tripped up because they want to find a more clever way to do it: http://www.gayle.com/blog/2016/1&#x2F
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by geebee 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this. I work for a university, and I am stunned with how talented and accomplished many post-docs are considering the level of low pay and career uncertainty they continue to face. The RAND institute, among ot
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by geebee 8y ago
I wouldn't say first year associates at big firms work for peanuts. In New York, at elite firms, starting salaries for 1st year associates is closing in on 200k. It's competitive, of course, they do work long hours under stressful
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by geebee 8y ago
I post this now and then when this topic comes up. I work for a public university, and all salaries are public record. There's even a web app where you can look things up. The negative impact of this has been nearly zero, as far as I c
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by geebee 8y ago
Sounds like they’re running the experiment. The first scenario you described is a good illustration of the kind of effort it would take to ensure no effect. The second? I’d be interested in knowing how they find families and decide what boo
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by geebee 8y ago
This particular instance of correlation and causation has always been fascinating to me. Is it possible to have a non causal correlation that is impossible to bring about without increasing (causing) the effect. For instance suppose you tri
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by geebee 8y ago
According to this article the highest paid worker in Silicon Valley, a product manager, earns $133k a year on average. For comparison purposes, I suggest you take a look at US News Best Jobs, which contains a roundup of BLS data by region.
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by geebee 8y ago
I'm certainly convinced that sampling from a narrow dataset can lead to problems down the line. You don't remove possible bias in your data by randomly setting aside a testing set and using it for cross validation. It's an im

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