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   by interviewer 14y ago

   Steve Yegge is usually a talented and entertaining writer. Having said that, his strengths lie in writing about computer science and far less in actually creating real systems. These predictions aren't very good (as time as shown) and ar
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   by interviewer 14y ago

   A "history"? Does your history consist of a single patent lawsuit 13 years ago? Also subsequent to the lawsuit Jeff Bezos went on public record as identifying that as a mistake. http://oreilly.com/news/amazon_patents.html . After which
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   by interviewer 14y ago

   There are some pretty simple solutions to the problems that you mention. For example, Amazon's bar raiser program was introduced specifically as a check to the power wielded by managers and to ensure a consistent hiring bar across the enti
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   by interviewer 14y ago

   I'm also a "well-calibrated interviewer" at Amazon. I'm an engineer and a 'bar raiser' with 700+ interviews. My thoughts are: 1. Interviewing and evaluating a candidate has very, very little to do with engineering. Yes, you have to be a