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by maxaf 11y ago
I've been keeping my resume in Markdown form in a private Gist for as long as I can remember. This approach has stood the test of time despite Markdown offering zero intrinsic support for either document structure in general, or the ta
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by maxaf 11y ago
But of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen... If there's a single book I wish everyone had read - not just managers - it would be this. I'd market it as "manual for human
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by maxaf 11y ago
Are you arguing in favor of everyone sticking to the lowest common denominator technology just because the pace of change is too quick? I would wager that things are changing so much exactly because of this reluctance to adopt new developme
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by maxaf 11y ago
That sounds horrible! I have no degree at all, which means that I got exactly where my interviewers are entirely for free. No crushing student loan debt, no heat waste of having to take college classes that have nothing whatsoever to do wit
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by maxaf 11y ago
This is especially hilarious^W demoralizing when the same company continues to actively recruit across all available channels. Successive waves of aggressive recruiter spam from some of my past "dead silence" rejections continue t
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by maxaf 11y ago
> You may have dodged the proverbial bullet. Wish I could upvote this twice! Every rejection I've ever received came with an information-rich sideband that told me more about the prospective employer than an acceptance would have. I
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by maxaf 11y ago
Would you feel better about providing work samples if you got paid fairly for each one?
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by maxaf 11y ago
We Scala people have gotten a lot of mileage out of pre-existing scaffolding we've inherited from the JVM ecosystem, as well as newer pieces that grew up independently of Scala: - Both Maven and SBT make it really easy to add third-p
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by maxaf 11y ago
Excluding senior candidates with actual work experience will result in a rapid, irreversible and extremely destructive economic crash.
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by maxaf 11y ago
> The most significant shift we’ve made is requiring every final candidate to work with us for three to eight weeks on a contract basis. Are you fucking kidding me? What am I going to tell my current employer while I "audition"
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by maxaf 11y ago
I hereby propose that we rename ourselves to Lawyer News, seeing how that's the kind of behavior we encourage here.
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by maxaf 11y ago
+1. Oh how I wish people weren't forcing me to read the endless qualifications and attempts at hedging. Just say what you have to say.
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by maxaf 11y ago
At least in my experience Paysa results have little to do with reality. It absolutely lowballed my "market salary" compared to what I actually make, then tacked on ~$70k when I added a MIT bachelor's degree in CS just for shi
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by maxaf 11y ago
Considering how much brouhaha there has been recently in the media (legitimately or not) regarding privacy issues, I doubt anyone expects true privacy when using SaaS products or any old websites these days. There are obviously those people
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by maxaf 11y ago
"Proactive" desktop support is very common in larger organizations where the time needed to personally dispatch a technician to each user in meatspace would be prohibitive. Usually such remote proactive support is initiated with t
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by maxaf 11y ago
IMHO the greatest inventions are those of the highest utility relative to cost of implementation. Such inventions usually arise from tenaciously scratching a particularly bothersome itch. For example, I've seen many Scala programmers s
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by maxaf 11y ago
If you think there's a lot of recruiter spam on LinkedIn, I dare you to have a look at my email inbox. :P
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by maxaf 11y ago
It must be designed to quietly prevent winception.
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by maxaf 11y ago
This is true of work you do on company equipment during work hours. If things were as you describe, no one would ever be able to do open source, let alone sign standard FOSS CLAs or the like.
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by maxaf 11y ago
Do well in the take-home test? Come in, meet the team, do the culture-fit thing. Then you get an offer. And this doesn't need to be an all-day thing. Who wants to keep selling the company to a candidate all day long? :)
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by maxaf 11y ago
In my experience this hasn't been the case. The closest I've come was an employment contract that required me to notify my employer of any work on the side. This has happened only once over more than a decade of work in this indus
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by maxaf 11y ago
I wish there was a way to scale the "add feature to FOSS project we use" thing. Scale is a concern here because I see this exercise being doled out more than a few times, which means that every instance must involve someone decidi
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by maxaf 11y ago
It was worse than what you describe. It was literally a wholesale copy/paste of a related but not-quite-right solution. The code test involved designing a data model for chess, but the candidate took an implementation from elsewhere th
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by maxaf 11y ago
The 90%+ rejection rate was at a BigCorp that refused to give people code tests ahead of a technical phone screening and onsite interview.
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by maxaf 11y ago
Would you have preferred to spend a whole day on an inconclusive onsite interview? Or perhaps a phone screen during which you're asked to implement a hashtable for the umpteenth time? As I said in another comment somewhere in this thre
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by maxaf 11y ago
Poor execution doesn't invalidate the idea. Happened to me too, although on a smaller scale. 4-6 hours is a bit much for a take-home evaluation project. If it can't be reasonably done by a distracted person in 4 hours, it's t
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by maxaf 11y ago
I have one major disagreement with you: > I have a Github profile with more than enough stuff on it Based on my experience only, you're in the minority here. Most candidates I've interviewed have barely anything on GitHub. So
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by maxaf 11y ago
This kind of depends on where the candidate is coming from. Those who're applying directly are obviously already expressing some desire to work with us. Recruiters should be instructed to give a consistent narrative, too. Good recruite
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by maxaf 11y ago
One of the best interviews I've had as a candidate (didn't get that job - it's the one that got away) involved me explaining design choices I made while implementing my solution to the take-home test. That was a great discuss
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by maxaf 11y ago
That has always been a concern, but in practice I've never seen this happen. Even for common-ish problems (Dijkstra's algorithm, GCD, chess) I've seen many, many diverse solutions that were obviously hand-coded by the candida

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