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Facebook interview: How I got an offer(clevercoder.net)
2 points by gil_vegliach 8y ago|0 comments
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Bash script: change your MAC address(clevercoder.net)
1 points by gil_vegliach 8y ago|0 comments
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Zalando: how to pass the interview(clevercoder.net)
2 points by gil_vegliach 8y ago|0 comments
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect: how I got certified(clevercoder.net)
1 points by gil_vegliach 9y ago|0 comments
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Study Log(clevercoder.net)
2 points by gil_vegliach 9y ago|0 comments
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Technical interviews: how to prepare(clevercoder.net)
2 points by gil_vegliach 9y ago|0 comments
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Amazon UK: How I passed the interview(gilvegliach.it)
2 points by gil_vegliach 9y ago|0 comments
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
It could well be, as a non-native speaker I'm not aware of such shades of meaning. It sounds a bit "TopTal speak" to me. Probably I picked it up subconsciously as I was skimming my TopTal post during writing.
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
Thanks :)
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
Thanks for the encouragement! :)
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
Scores are normalized so it doesn't matter. If you always give a low score, that score will count more after normalization. It would be interesting to know how they treat outliers: for example, if you give always scores 1-2.5 and then
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
Once upon a time, a hiring committee was presented some feedbacks and had to come to a yes/no decision for some candidates. All them were rejected. It turned out that the feedbacks were of the hiring committee's members, from when
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
Apparently they are thinking about it (perhaps just a rumor): https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3332120/google-creates-jobsite...
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
It is the Zurich office from the street.
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
Right, with 4 being basically impossible to get, and scores being normalized wrt the history of the interviewer.
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
Actually, if you are a Google intern and want to become a full-time engineer, you still need to pass two interviews. While preparing, I found a ton of stuff on Quora, take a look there.
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
Grazie :) Getting zero feedback sucks, but as far as I understand it, this is a way to cover their asses from lawsuits. Basically, if you don't get hired, and x gets hired, and you happen to know that your feedbacks were similar, then
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
I agree with the noise of the process. Actually, the whole experience was a good one for me, maybe I didn't express it in the post? Anyway, I got a job in Amazon UK at the end, so not too bad.
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by gil_vegliach 9y ago
I agree with you. I put more the emphasis on the optimality of the solutions because that was the feedback from the recruiter. During the interviews, I made sure to talk through the problems indeed. That is a whole skill in itself.
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Google: My interview experience(gilvegliach.it)
208 points by gil_vegliach 9y ago|157 comments
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How I passed the interview at Booking.com(gilvegliach.it)
1 points by gil_vegliach 9y ago|0 comments