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by mattm 6y ago
> the story of Google firing all its managers, only to then have problems Do you have a link to more information about this? I only heard about this recently.
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by mattm 6y ago
This is a good general rule but this still breaks down. For instance, I say "I'm going to the bank". But really this means "I'm going to a branch of the bank that I bank with". The same occurs with words lik
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by mattm 6y ago
> She clearly did. Without that she would not be able to onboard or contribute to the design discussions and would not be able to help customers out. You can't assume that customers implies non-technical. You'd be surprised. I
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by mattm 6y ago
This is such a good comment. I was in China for a friend's wedding and his fiance's family was adding another floor to their house. I asked what kind of permission they needed. They said they didn't need anything. They jus
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by mattm 6y ago
I swear that I've had recruiters contact me, who I assume are paying, and without me even doing anything they end up as a 1st connection.
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by mattm 6y ago
I was shocked when I learned that employees at Facebook use Facebook internally for work related discussions. Facebook is not built for that purpose.
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by mattm 6y ago
I think for entry level people you might be able to replace the chat with something they're interested in even if it's not related to the job. I've gone by the philosophy that if the person doesn't have anything they&#x
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by mattm 6y ago
How often do you use vectors, linked lists and trees at your job?
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by mattm 6y ago
A good rule of thumb I've heard is that for an hour interview, you should expect people that work for you to solve and complete it in about 20 minutes. If it takes them longer than that, the question will be too difficult for candidat
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by mattm 6y ago
I've found that when an interview question seems too easy, I'll think "What's the catch?". That can start me down a spiral of wasting time and energy wondering if I'm missing something.
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by mattm 6y ago
Japanese don't all wear masks but it's the cultural norm that if you feel bad you wear a mask. I would think that custom would help stop the spread. It's not necessary that everyone wear masks, only the people that have COVID
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by mattm 6y ago
I did something similar once with an essay I wrote in high school to see if the teacher actually read the whole thing. It turns out that he did read it and I got docked a mark for that.
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by mattm 6y ago
This is a pretty entertaining long read of it https://www.fastcompany.com/3039887/under-fire
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by mattm 6y ago
If Bill Gates was born to poor parents there's a >99% chance he could not produce a Microsoft.
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by mattm 6y ago
Yeah people might want to read "The Inside Story Of Jeff Bezos’s Fire Phone Debacle" for a counterpoint https://www.fastcompany.com/3039887/under-fire
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by mattm 6y ago
My landlord knows my salary as I needed to provide it on the application. My takehome pay is more than what I pay in rent. Why didn't my landlord say to me "You know instead of paying $X, I see you can afford to pay more so I&#x2
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by mattm 6y ago
Google should have its own legal department that can help you. I would ask your recruiter to connect you to them.
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by mattm 6y ago
This should be illegal https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/employee-rights-and-resour... My wife had the same experience during our green card process when she was on an EAD and a company said they couldn't proceed
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by mattm 6y ago
> I have seen many people getting diversity lottery just by virtue of having a family member in USA. AFAIK the diversity lottery is random and doesn't take family members into account.
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by mattm 6y ago
You might want to have a look at how "top" schools are calculated https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-... Financial related: Faculty resources 20% "Expert opinion"
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by mattm 6y ago
According to this study, you're correct. The funny thing is that when it was discussed in HN at the time is that the thread had many comments from students who went to MIT, Stanford, etc. trying to deny it. http://blog.inter
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by mattm 6y ago
Yes this is accurate. At my company they've said in the past that they have to count business trips to certain states because once you have employees that have "worked" in those states for more than X days a year, it can be
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by mattm 6y ago
You need to have a certain amount of karma before it appears
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by mattm 6y ago
Just the idea of a "conversion interview" seems nuts. Interviews are a way (albeit imperfect) for you to gauge the likeliness that a candidate would succeed in a position. If you've already worked with the candidate, you alre
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by mattm 6y ago
I agree. At first I would just ignore obviously wrong information posted by others in my Facebook feed but now I will comment and provide articles showing the other point of view. The goal isn't to change the mind of the person who p
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by mattm 6y ago
This couldn't be further from the truth and disregards the history of how these areas started. For example, San Francisco's Chinatown: "This, combined with a number of racist and restrictive laws limiting where Chinese were
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by mattm 6y ago
This article was the most convincing for me http://archive.is/QHU1H
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by mattm 6y ago
I just listened to it this morning when it came up in my feed. I had added this episode after it was mentioned in a previous HN thread about Wirecard. I guess the short seller was proven right.
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by mattm 6y ago
Haha, the headline made me chuckle.
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by mattm 6y ago
Many celebrities have an "appearance fee" meaning they'll meet for a certain number of hours for whatever you pay for (within reason). So, for example, if you're rich enough you could get in touch with their agent and b

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