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by mhss 3y ago
> If you want people to care about things, you have to listen to what they care about Ultimately we are all paid to solve the problems the business needs solved, even if the solution is boring and not 'exciting' or 'cuttin
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by mhss 3y ago
> stop acting like a human for a massive portion of the day, every day What does this mean to you? I've worked remote and in office, I never felt like I had to stop acting like a human, so I'd like to understand how has it been
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by mhss 3y ago
> The kind of person doing that has the bandwidth to install and use open source tools. > ironically, the person who is arguably the best B2B customer, making tons of money, lots of bandwidth, pretty sophisticated, is the person most
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by mhss 3y ago
Being pedantic about standards and expecting people to recite them perfectly as a way to assess skill or seniority is what is wrong. Even when you are implementing a 'standard' there's room for robustness principles (liberal
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by mhss 3y ago
I guess my point is that what you really dislike are niche pedantic gotcha questions, not 'very specific questions you can Google an answer to in 3s'. I fully agree with that btw.
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by mhss 3y ago
That’s why assembling an interview panel requires some finesse. How senior the candidate is expected to be needs to be calibrated and interviewers selected accordingly to seniority and domain expertise. Not always possible, so it’s always i
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by mhss 3y ago
That’s why you need experienced hiring managers. The questions should be discussed and approved before the interview. You just don’t let an engineer ask whatever they want. An interview plan needs to be shared to avoid overlapping questions
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by mhss 3y ago
I get what you mean I think. However if you’ve been doing C dev for several years and you “don’t remember” what a static variable is and when to use it (or not) is not a great sign. Cumulative signals is what determines hire or no hire, not
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by mhss 3y ago
I’m not going to justify going in depth in topics not relevant for the job. However going deep in tech topics is necessary to evaluate experience and seniority. The “best interviews” process you described is adequate for the first eng level
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by mhss 3y ago
Pretty clearly talking here about my experience with AirBnB. I’d argue better for anyone traveling with family and staying more than a few days. Hotels won’t provide the same value. If you want to argue the angle of housing becoming mor ex
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by mhss 3y ago
FWIW I have had nothing but great experiences in over 10 countries in Europe and North America. Except once in France with a “bad” host complaining about not leaving the apartment “clean” despite a hefty cleaning fee and leaving it in a rea
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Cloudflare CEO threw some employees under the bus(twitter.com)
6 points by mhss 3y ago|1 comments
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by mhss 4y ago
> "how can we alignnincentices so that the ten big projects all land successfully and deliver in two years". You cannot. No matter how big brained you are no matter how many meetings. It's impossible. If you are basically
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by mhss 4y ago
> But there are either better ways to do these things, or they still require coercive (supervisory) activity. I wish there were a consistent answer to this, but part of the reason management is hard (and I won't deny there's pl
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by mhss 4y ago
FWIW. I don't read this as disdain, just stating the fact that less experienced people make more mistakes or may have less experience avoiding tech debt. It's hyperbole of course (I hope) because L4/L5s should be reviewing th
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by mhss 4y ago
As someone whose first Linux distribution was Gentoo back in 2005, what took you so long? I mean, it's always been a 'high maintenance' distribution. The appeal for me early on was that it forced me to understand more about h
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by mhss 4y ago
Have you tried suggesting to cancel them?
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by mhss 4y ago
This is very common coming from small shops and moving to larger orgs. I am happy to have started my career gradually going from very small to medium to larger orgs. I think it's made me a much more well rounded dev. A lot of people th
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by mhss 4y ago
Haha oh well that flew over my head. Thanks for explaining.
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by mhss 4y ago
It's all about what you want. You can be successful as an EM with your current skillset, but IMHO, the best eng managers and directors I've known and respect have spent much more time as engineers themselves. Having more engineeri
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by mhss 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9nage_%C3%A0_trois Problems that could arise from classic Seinfeld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEMWMsy0DgU
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by mhss 4y ago
Yeah I thought the same. I don't think 1Password is immune to security issues. However, after seeing several things I did not like in LastPass development, I decided 1Password was the safer bet. Knock on wood, they claim they've n
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by mhss 4y ago
I mean c'mon I also enjoy learning about the full stack (have written software at pretty much all layers, embedded, device drivers, middleware, web apps, frontend/backend, distributed systems, databases, etc); but I think that&#x2
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by mhss 4y ago
I cannot talk about specifics obviously since I was an employee. I can only say I did not see the sw engineering and infrastructure rigour I'd expect from a service that is managing very sensitive information.
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by mhss 4y ago
When I worked at LogMeIn (previous owners of LastPass), I relocated to Budapest and worked in the same building as LastPass' engineering (I was in another division though). Getting a sneak peek of how the sausage is made gave me the hi
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by mhss 4y ago
No no no, all of that is just he's eccentric, not understood by the common person.
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by mhss 4y ago
How many straws did it take for Trump's supporters? oh, right ...
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by mhss 4y ago
I largely agree, but I've not banned it. I just have explicitly told them they can only watch from the subscriptions we've curated. It requires monitoring of course, so they'll watch it on tv (Apple TV) when I'm present.
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by mhss 4y ago
See my answer above. You're assuming is easy for management to know exactly what you're doing. This will vary from org to org and how many reports do they have, how complex the work is, how much autonomy everyone has, etc; Sure, y
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by mhss 4y ago
They're a communication tool, and as such, can be used for good or bad purposes. If you already distrust your manager and organization to a large degree, yeah you won't ever see any value on them, but the problem is the inherent d

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