mikeinterviewst

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by mikeinterviewst 14y ago
InterviewStreet ( http://interviewstreet.com ) - Mountain View and Bangalore Programmers for frontend, backend, and project management roles. Our hacker team is 5 strong, so you'll be tackling a huge variety of projects. Help fix a horribly
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by mikeinterviewst 14y ago
That was how we originally built it, but we found it less fun to rate in testing compared to this version. Hopefully the increased votes-per-person outweigh the loss of fidelity.
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Mountain View (Remote OK for first couple of months) InterviewStreet (YC '11) is solving technical hiring through interesting, practical problems (like Stripe's recent CTF). You'd be employee #7. We're looking for: * Campus Coordinator (non
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
The biology revolution is coming, both sooner and later than you think. As one indicator, the price per base pair of DNA synthesis is following a Moore's Law, ( http://singularity.com/charts/page73.html ), but Fredster is right in that ther
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
The topic that patio11 mentioned is covered pretty well in chapter 2 of Freakonomics. The actual text doesn't seem to be part of the official sample excerpt, but somebody posted the relevant portion in a forum here: http://www.nachi.org/fo
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The CodeSprint 2 Post-Mortem(blog.interviewstreet.com)
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Negotiating a Job Offer with a Company(blog.interviewstreet.com)
81 points by mikeinterviewst 15y ago|36 comments
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Scientific American had a great article on this in my Pinboard: "The Secret of Raising Smart Kids: Don't Tell Them They Are" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-... EDIT: It looks like it's behind a semi-paywall. H
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Introducing the Hackerboard: A Christmas Story(blog.interviewstreet.com)
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
It looks like your privacy settings / a plugin you have installed doesn't allow for even obsfucated email sharing. Normally, what we get for Facebook logins is app+<random_string>@proxymail.facebook.com. This is the first time we've
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Wow, we did not expect to see this level of criticism from the comments. A lot of the focus is on the 48 hour period, in that it's basically way too long to expect you guys to participate. We don't expect people to code all 48 hours; the de
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Companies choose candidates on a per-question weighting system. Thus, if you spend only a couple of hours, but on a problem that is valued highly by a specific company, then there's a good chance that they'll still notice you.
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
It's free for programmers to participate.
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Just to clarify a quote: “Everything will be based on performance — how fast they code, how many they get right.” This is a slight misrepresentation of the original intent. What we meant to say is that we measure code execution speed, not h
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Which university is it? We'll manually add it in, and if we get a lot more comments about universities not being city-specific, we'll make the change.
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Show HN: Try out our real-world programming challenges
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Assessing a Company: Questions you need to ask in an Interview(blog.interviewstreet.com)
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Who's Participating in CodeSprint 2? Week 2(blog.interviewstreet.com)
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Who's Participating in CodeSprint 2?: Week 1(blog.interviewstreet.com)
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The CodeSprint Post-Mortem: Statistics and Lessons Learned(blog.interviewstreet.com)
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Maybe. If so, we will tell you about it in our Post Contest blog post.
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Based on the IRC chat, most of the battle is tackling our biggest test cases and finding an algorithm that fits into our memory and runtime limits.
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
The contest was designed for busy students in mind. We targeted this test to be somewhere between 12-20 hours long in total.
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Yes, we will have a CodeSprint Post Contest Results post.
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CodeSprint begins today at noon (PST), with 65 participating startups(codesprint.interviewstreet.com)
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
We're mainly focused on US university students, so we don't anticipate it being a big problem, but we do have company preferences in the profile (yet to go live), so students can pick and choose which companies they want. We'll get the enco
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
Time-lapse was a "cool feature" requested by one of our early companies that we decided to implement on the main InterviewStreet site. If you cut and paste completed code, it won't affect your score whatsoever, and it's up to the specific c
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
A little bit of both. There will be a hard cutoff, in which we are only considering score. With that said, in the profile (which hasn't launched yet), we let you fill out fields / github accounts to further flesh out who you are. Companies
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
To answer your first point: Our contest will cover different areas of problems, and certain companies will only be available for application if specific questions types are answered. One of the main appeals for CodeSprint is that you don't
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by mikeinterviewst 15y ago
We're still debating internally about how to match startups with top scorers. We want to include both applicant and company preferences. Ultimately, I think we're going to have to wait until we see the distribution of scores before we make

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