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It's avoidable. Behavioral questions don't tend to freak engineers out. Neither do questions about their past work.
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> found it best to have a guided interview about the candidate's work experience and interesting problems that she/he solved. This. I advocate this method of interviewing here in the states every chance I get. The most common f
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It's not disrespectful for a company to ask you to write a little code for them. They're just as invested on the time front as you are since they have to read and analyze what you send them. Now, if you were to tell me that nobody
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> so it's possible (probable even) that more established companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, etc. are recruiting for the same people. You're hiring for the same skills as the big companies are in the same field in t
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by lj3 10y ago
Why is there a comment like this on every single HN post lately? Yes, you fall outside of the fat part of the bell curve. Congrats. What's your point? A single outlier does not disprove the post. edited to add: fat part of the bell cu
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by lj3 10y ago
I was one of the users who flagged it and wished it had stayed flagged. If I wanted to read political propaganda, I'd go to CNN.
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I live in Rural New York State and my commute is the 5 steps it takes to go from my bed to my desk. But, I've had a number of commuting situations over the years. The worst commute I ever had was the 45 minute to 1 hour drive down 30 m
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Do what I do: flag each and every one of them.
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I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is essentially what I suggest for an interview process and I'm not the only one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfyWvJdsDRI
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Step 1: Use Taleo.
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A few days late here, but Nvidia Optimus is a general issue on all platforms, including windows. I raved for years about linux graphics support being crap, to the general amazement of the rest of the linux community. When I switched to wi
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> Or you just have one that works for both And that is? > and save yourself a lot of headache? Which headache are you referring to?
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Tolls are a monopoly granted by the government, which makes it the opposite of a free market. The real result of a free market would be private roads or highways that would compete against each other for tolls. Neither are a great solution.
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If you already have a job, the likelihood you're going to go through the normal hiring channels is small anyway. There's no reason you couldn't have one hiring process for those you're trying to woo away from other compa
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> Imagine you get a new job that pays half of what your last job did and then you get dismissed at the end of 3 months and have to restart your search. I'd take that. You're still getting paid for your work instead of spending
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That's not the source of the stress of coding on a whiteboard. The source of the stress is you have to guess what the interviewer wants or you don't get to pay your bills next month.
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And that's exactly why I like work to hire. The biggest factors that contributes to whether you like your job or hate your life are your boss, the people you work with and the state of the code base. You don't get a good impressio
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Bah! Just always return 200 and if there's an error, make your users look for an error property in the json return value that contains a thoroughly unhelpful error message, like "I'm a teapot." ;)
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> Most jobs in this world You're not US based then? Because I can say with some certainly that most advertised jobs in the US absolutely do. Granted, most open jobs in the US aren't advertised, but I haven't found a way to
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who memorizes http response codes?
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How do you find work?
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That's called 'contract to hire' and it was fairly common about 5-10 years ago. I don't see it as much these days. I'm not sure why, but it seems to have fallen out of fashion.
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The real problem with whiteboard tests (and it's close cousin, the live coding test) is there is no correlation between being able to pass that test and being able to do the job. Companies that rely on it to determine programming abili
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> Where it's been different than this has been when getting referred to your everyday startup Yeah, that's the kind of company I was referred to. I assume you don't work in startups? :)
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The last time I got a referral from an old co-worker, it got me past the resume screen and no farther. The rest of the interview was identical to what you'd face if you had applied cold off the street. YMMV.
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I don't think the interview process contributes to burnout. That happens after you get the job. But, it does make recovering from a burnout a pain in the ass. You need to catch up with the latest trends and refresh on the basics like a
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Sure, there is. Have you seen this approach? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfyWvJdsDRI
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It depends on what your field is. Can you imagine a frontend web developer writing a graph traversal algorithm in javascript?
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> As imperfect as ALL technical recruiting styles may be, at least a short coding assignment (i.e. < 4 hrs) is halfway-related to the real world. Yes, but what it is not is economical. There's a huge dropoff in the interview funn

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