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by linza 6y ago
I disagree with that comment, based on my experience. > Why would you ask questions that don't match the actual work they'll be doing? As an interviewer, and likely peer or manager of the potential new hire, I want to understan
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by linza 6y ago
I agree with the comment you were replying to. There will always be outliers, but testing prowess in technical problem solving and grit correlates well enough with the job of a software engineer. The "amazing scientist" maybe was
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by linza 6y ago
True, but in my experience it's easier to teach resourcefulness after hiring than injecting motivation for solving problems somehow.
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by linza 6y ago
I think if it this way (very simplified): there are candidates that like challenges and who don't mind imperfect interviewing situations, and i had my fair share of people who dislike it would fare better if we just let them work on a
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by linza 6y ago
That may be true. But then why hire someone with just look-up skills before hiring someone who really tries, and enjoys the challenge? I'm interviewing engineers frequently and although I agree that the question asked by GP is maybe no
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by linza 6y ago
Did you mean to reply to another comment perhaps? I'm against these changes and as an engineer and as my comment suggested, I'm ill equipped bring useful arguments against or in favor.
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by linza 6y ago
Many good points and I agree with all of them except for the last: it's probably not just a US problem although it's the most visible at the moment. Ironically to me, these efforts are to be more inclusive but I can't see any
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by linza 6y ago
I think shame is the actual reason why so many oppose these changes and why they are adopted in the end. The change itself is often interpreted as finger waggling, implying something was done wrong. In technical fields, one expects technica
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by linza 6y ago
My personal takeaway was that I don't know as much as I think. I didn't produce any data at the time to prove my point (not that I would have known how to), and because of that it's hard for me to analyse the situation more m
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by linza 6y ago
A small team in a company I worked for got into machine learning a few years back. They had some success with some toy examples and were now looking for applications. They tried to use it for optimizing some specific engineering procesess.
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by linza 6y ago
I'm in the same boat. I got excited when i heard about containers in Firefox but was disappointed when i actually used it for the reasons you mentioned. I'm still on Chrome mostly because of this, even though profiles are a crutch
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by linza 6y ago
It's not that simple, but it could be a factor, in my experience. It's probably not one single thing. Overly generalized, formal education seems to give one more self awareness. Lesser educated peers overestimate their abilities w
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by linza 6y ago
I work in hiring and people/performance management. In my experience, people with a formal education in average outperform the ones without. There are outliers on either side of course. We investigate the reasons for this but so far co
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by linza 7y ago
I haven't worked on a product that used analytics to drive feature development. What you wrote here sounds very naive to me. I might be completely wrong, but i assume if you have a large enough user base you would use telemetry only in
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by linza 7y ago
If more than (or equal to) half of computers are used by only one person, then the median user count is 1, no?
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by linza 7y ago
> 1. [...] Every day you stay at Google the more valuable you become. I'd argue that posts like these decrease the value of Google engineers (and Dell engineers) in my eyes. Maybe that's too shallow though. I'm involved in
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by linza 7y ago
What i meant was that i believe they try to follow the law around privacy. The law might not be "good enough", but that's in us not them (modulo the lobbying). I'm not trying to say larger companies are innocent. Saying
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by linza 7y ago
I doubt think this is accurate. Google might not respect the desire for an open internet without ads and no single large player. But i believe they fully respect their users privacy, comply with most of the law around privacy already, and h
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by linza 7y ago
I was curious about ServiceNow and googled it and was excited as they offer demos. But they require registration and a lot of information about myself, so i stopped. Is it not meant for small businesses perhaps?
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by linza 7y ago
Circumstances sometimes are not that clear. Being put on a PIP where I'm employed is at the discretion of the manager, and sometimes it's just the combination of the report and the manager. One of my colleagues was put on a PIP, s
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by linza 7y ago
Yes of course. What's your point? All marketing lies, and there is no spectrum, and therefore no moral ambiguity in doing shady things?
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by linza 7y ago
Yes, oh no. Dark patterns are closer to fraud than to a legitimate business model I'd recommend to my friends and family. Nigerian princes selling you gold is a business model too.
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by linza 7y ago
I feel your tone is slightly too condescending, but I have to agree with the general statement. I'm responsible for hiring in my small department, and the OPs blog post would be a red flag. We appreciate if candidates show they can lea
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by linza 7y ago
It's still interesting to hear comments like in the GP for an unknowing person like me. Your comment is interesting as well, if only for the defensive reaction without addressing the "being scummy" claim. I'm basically
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by linza 7y ago
Same here. I use Firefox+adblocker on mobile for some sites. I don't know why it is, but i just dislike the UI of Firefox. I want to like it more, but it just doesn't work out...
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by linza 7y ago
You are just chasing your own tail by looking at those metrics. Your system needs to be resilient to these random events and you must account for those, that's for sure. But you would not put your focus on those, it's still the hi
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by linza 7y ago
The deep metrics, as you call them, get vanishingly irrelevant the larger the system gets, at least for the use case you mention. To put it unscientifically, something always goes wrong, but that does not mean SLA is violated. As a corrolla
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by linza 8y ago
Is this really necessary? The exchange seems quite civil. What exactly in the GP gave offense that warrants pointing it out? HN seems like a generally civil place. Comments like these make it seem more uncivil, just like police patrolling &
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by linza 8y ago
Fair enough, maybe we (rather small company in central Europe, but with gift profile customers) are an outlier here but I'm my hiring experience there weren't really any imposters. Usually they come from companies we know well, it
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by linza 8y ago
I don't work for Google and i haven't interviewed with them. In our company (low level systems engineering) we ask similar question, with the following rationale: I don't want to test if you can build systems, your resume alr

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