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My Amazon interview experience(jayhuang.org)
141 points by jayhuang 13y ago|155 comments
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Back in high school I found a vulnerability in the website of a major online DVD retailer. I notified them about it, and included information on what specifically was wrong, the impact it had (over 6 million credit cards, social insurance n
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I'm about the same age (just turned 21), and I do get a lot of recruiter spam. I'd gladly trade to be in your shoes instead. The lack of effort many of these people put into their emails is appalling. I understand recruiters are f
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I remember one event from back when I was a bit over 1. My mom took me to her friend's shop, they had 2 daughters and a chihuahua. One of the daughters (~5 years old) picked up the chihuahua and held it in front of my stroller, within
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Yep, exactly. I interviewed for a Front-end Development Engineer position with Amazon, and aside from the poor handling by the recruiter, the on-site interviews covered a very well-rounded set of topics that were extremely relevant to the p
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by jayhuang 13y ago
"he once vetoed a candidate for a programming job because the candidate didn't know much about a specific programming language, a detail others missed" He appears to be pretty proud of this. Most top companies actually care l
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Awesome! Enjoyed the second CtF and am looking forward to the next!
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Absolutely. If you point out that it's an affiliate link, I'm perfectly fine with letting you get the upside. Otherwise I look at the anchor URL and get rid of the ref code. It's not a big deal but it's annoying seeing p
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Michael, I might have some work for you. Shoot me an email.
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I agree very much with this. I'm not sure many people would disagree either...
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Yea, I believe the most common number was $70k/$75k per year depending on the report. After that, it's mostly diminishing returns.
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by jayhuang 13y ago
A place I worked at previously had a manager who managed 2 small teams. One that did analytics, and another that did media/communications, for a total of about 10 people. On my first week of work, we had a meeting and in the middle of
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by jayhuang 13y ago
As someone who is regularly working on 2 or 3 different projects at any given time, de-cluttering has been incredibly helpful with my productivity. Especially when I'm on my laptop. Every additional program I have open is a potential d
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Great work! Now the question is how to find a way to do this sustain-ably (:
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Just had a nice conversation with the Great Leader, Assad, and my wife as Barack. Hilarious spontaneous conversations aside, cool idea!
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by jayhuang 13y ago
> "I love you so much" Tears were (almost) shed. As someone who grew up in an Asian family, those words are uttered nowhere near enough (never). I do hope that in the midst of our busy lives, we don't forget to tell loved
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Pushing code to GitHub as Linus Torvalds(jayhuang.org)
27 points by jayhuang 13y ago|25 comments
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I just recently had the opportunity to speak with Slava and Michael after one of my posts hit the front page of HackerNews. They are definitely nice people, I enjoyed speaking with them. I am no expert on databases, so I don't have muc
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I don't think Javascript Developer and Front End Web Developer are mutually exclusive. They certainly aren't the same, but they aren't mutually exclusive either. Though I do agree the subject of this article would be more sui
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by jayhuang 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Vancouver/Remote Struggling to find a web developer who understands your business? I am Jay Huang, a full stack web developer and consultant based in Vancouver, B.C. Having co-founded of 2 of the largest communities on t
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Show HN: Discover Wikipedia, a weeknight project.(discoverwiki.com)
1 points by jayhuang 13y ago|0 comments
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by jayhuang 13y ago
You might want to take a look at this: https://github.com/virtualabs/ZeroSMS Edit: DanBC linked to the SO question that links to this
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I think many of us expected this. In previous years, much of the discussion and knowledge-sharing among web developers has been about ways to minimize page-loads, and about flash dying. Nowadays with the proliferation of JS MV*, Node on the
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Also willing to help. This is something that hits very close to home for me. I've done both front-end and back-end work.
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I've love to get an idea of this too. Hacker School seems pretty appealing but I'm not sure if I would be able to afford huge costs (I've read in some blog posts that the cost of living is pretty high, especially short term).
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by jayhuang 13y ago
Exactly how I currently handle it. I do not understand people who post this stuff publicly. Either change your security settings or don't do it at all. I choose not to do it at all and assume everything I post can be seen by people who
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The HackerNews effect: Hitting #2 on HN(jayhuang.org)
2 points by jayhuang 13y ago|0 comments
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I'm really impressed with Angular. I've previously worked with Backbone.js, and found that many things in Backbone where I've had to manually develop are readily available in Angular. Moving from Backbone to Angular has made
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I see what you did there (;
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by jayhuang 13y ago
I'm very hesitant to post the name of the company because most of my experience has to do with the PM, and not the company as a whole. Although I do have some issues with how this company is run in particular, I do not want to misguide

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