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by koliber 1y ago
Ask the suspicious candidates what they think of the murderous North Korean regime. Avoids body shaming.
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by koliber 1y ago
That would be a good answer. But they are very poor at this game and can’t answer basic challenges gracefully. They do seem to be decent programmers though based on my experience with these scam interviews.
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by koliber 1y ago
Look at their LinkedIn profile. All the scammers had non-existent profiles in their resumes. Call their phone number. All the scammers had non-working phone numbers in their resumes. I wrote an article about this based on my experience: ht
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by koliber 1y ago
On one such call with a scammer I called him out and said he’s from North Korea. He got a bit mixed up and started rebuffing me. The call got cut off mid-sentence, as if someone else pulled the plug. There are other tell tale signs that you
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by koliber 1y ago
I love this article. It seems like it is lifted directly from a series of LinkedIn posts I shared about my experience with North Korean job scammers. I also wrote a quick guide on how to protect yourself. Link to LinkedIn post in the blog p
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by koliber 1y ago
When you zoom in on the cracks, you can see the bevel on the edge of the crack. That’s incredible. In many places on the edges of the cracks in the dark background you can see tinges of blue or pink color. Is that from the lighting, or is t
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by koliber 1y ago
It's not just talking to customers. How you talk is also important. I highly recommend the book "The Mom Test." It opened up my eyes about how many things I was doing wrong in the early discovery conversations.
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by koliber 2y ago
I had 4 instances where a sketchy Asian guy showed up to an interview. Something was always off. Twice it was the same guy under two different names. In the final case I called the candidate out that the they are from North Korea. They were
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by koliber 2y ago
Whenever you want to market something that has many different uses, it’s important to focus. Pick one of those uses, and focus relentlessly in marketing that. If people are interested, they will come and if the tool will deliver on the prom
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by koliber 2y ago
When doing a tech interview, watch the person’s eyes. Pay attention to the pacing of their answers. If they seem to be reading intently, that’s a flag. If their answers are fluffy and vague and then get very specific, that’s a flag. Tools l
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by koliber 2y ago
This is a great approach and I like it as well. I did have a few situations where the person could talk shop like an expert but when it came to actually writing some code they failed. I literally had a person fail fizzbuzz that was supposed
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by koliber 2y ago
I’m surprised that “Add caching” is not on that list. Maybe he bundled it under one of the first four. Caching is used so extensively as an optimization method that we don’t even notice it. L1 cache, edge computing, memoization, web browser
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by koliber 2y ago
Regarding apple parts, I recently replaced a broken screen on a MacBook pro with an OEM part. I can’t get the color to look right. Not to mention the one vertical row where pixels look off (not dead, but not normal either). The guy at the s
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by koliber 2y ago
And somewhere out there is a person reading this post and coming to the conclusion "How can Google be stupid enough to hire people stupid enough to have abs() return a negative value." Love the story! There is so much complexity i
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by koliber 2y ago
It’s like a lucid dream version of using and modifying the software at the same time.
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by koliber 2y ago
First it will dream up the interaction frame by frame. Next, to improve efficiency, it will cache those interaction representations. What better way to do that than through a code representation. While I think current AI can’t come close to
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by koliber 2y ago
Without a BS or a master’s degree it will be hard to get into a PhD program.
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by koliber 2y ago
How do you tell who is truly senior without giving them some sort of a test? Such test are inconvenient for the truly senior folk. And they keep the others out of the jobs that require the senior experience.
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by koliber 2y ago
> When an applicant has already taken the time to develop a resume that illustrates their skills along with a portfolio/repo that proves said skills, you callously dismiss that work and past experience by making them jump through ho
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by koliber 2y ago
The only thing I would disagree with is that these believes are unpopular. For the rest, it's a reasonable perspective. Even the "red flag" one about people not leaving is sensible. It's a flag and not a verdict. It&#x27
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by koliber 2y ago
Move fast and break things. We don't know the root cause, but the kinds of moves that Musk is pulling are straight from a sabotage manual.
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by koliber 2y ago
To add to the complexity of the whole situation, some countries don't separate by thousands (every three zeroes). India uses a 2,2,3 system (crore, lakh, thousand). 10 million = 1,00,00,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by koliber 2y ago
Not for me. Apparently finding and setting up monitoring is too problematic for all of the people who are running their freshly-created startups and e-commerce shops without any monitoring. For someone who does not know HTTP from HTTPs or a
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by koliber 2y ago
This sounds lovely. I am a spatial thinker so this is right up my alley. How do you deal with different kinds of groupings and connections? For example, some things could be connected because they are “integrations”, or because they deal wi
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by koliber 2y ago
Working with clients I realized that many companies lack basic monitoring and observability. E-commerce shops go down and no one notices. DBs do thousands of useless queries per minute. Emails stop sending silently. I’m building a tool to m
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by koliber 2y ago
I've been recruiting a lot over the past 8 years. First as a manager, later as an engineering department leader, and most recently in the role of a specialize recruiter. I've seen a few things change. The interviews themselves are
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by koliber 2y ago
I understand the "doom" in doom scrolling differently. You're right that in general it's about getting those random dopamine hits when something nice appears in the news feed. However, after some time, you got a lot of t
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by koliber 2y ago
Limit the amount of exposure to social media and talk to them. There are no shortcuts. Don't cut off completely, but limit, talk to them about it, show examples of when it is a positive impact, show examples of negative impact.
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by koliber 2y ago
In Poland we have pedal-less bikes for tiny tots. It's amazing how well they work. First they walk with the bike, Then they take longer and longer strides. Once it's clear that they can balance, you get them a proper bike with ped
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by koliber 2y ago
The PHB wanted A/B testing! True story. I've spent two months convincing them that it made no sense with the volume of conversion events we had.

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