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by nilkn 9y ago
My fear would be that you wouldn't have a rigorous, well-tuned process for those folks, so there could be a lot of noise or randomness in their evaluations. And it could be very hard for you to compare them with the folks with extensiv
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by nilkn 9y ago
Sure, that's not ideal. And the more that I read about HackerRank specifically the more I'm convinced it's a step back from boring old phone screens. We do the latter with a Google doc, and while it's technologically pri
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by nilkn 9y ago
But now your process is heavily biased against folks whose work has primarily been for their current employer, and they don't have any reasonable side projects to walk you through.
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by nilkn 9y ago
Sure, it's very hard to fully approximate that aspect of the job in a quick coding screen. Small algorithmic problems don't come close in the grand scheme of things. But they still put you in an environment and context where you d
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by nilkn 9y ago
Real world conditions like the one that you edited out of the sentence you quoted. The point is that neither exercise perfectly mimics the job the OP is being considered for, and they fail to do so in different ways.
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by nilkn 9y ago
I don't think I fully appreciated that HackerRank does not involve the direct participation from anyone at the hiring company. I wouldn't be on board with that, and that certainly makes more more sympathetic to the OP.
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by nilkn 9y ago
I can only speak for where I currently work. Our phone screens take 45 minutes on average rather than 90. If you don't have 45 minutes for a coding phone screen, then you also don't have 45 minutes for anything else you just menti
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by nilkn 9y ago
"Difficult to work with" is perhaps too harsh a statement. But the candidate is asking for a completely custom treatment at the earliest possible stage of the interview process. The candidate is also assuming that the interviewe
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by nilkn 9y ago
Not just that, but doing a completely custom interview just for this one candidate is a lot of upfront investment to make in someone you may not even bring onsite for the full interview. All the caveats this candidate mentioned about standa
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by nilkn 9y ago
I didn't fully appreciate the significance of that point at first but now I think I do. It appears that in Norway in particular a Model S can be significantly cheaper than a 7 series or S class.
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by nilkn 9y ago
First of all, I completely agree that the E class is more on par with the Model S, and the S class is significantly more luxurious. With that said, I do think it's interesting that the Model S has S class pricing and is outselling the
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by nilkn 9y ago
Surely there's a middle ground here. Most code written by university students in any language is problematic and not professional-quality. The specific deficiencies exhibited may vary from language to language. The extreme you illustra
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by nilkn 9y ago
You're sort of painting a picture here of Haskell and all other languages skating towards some unknown target point, with Haskell skating the slowest. But, at the risk of sounding like a fanboy, it could be that Haskell simply started
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by nilkn 9y ago
Maybe it's just that it's interesting and useful to look at why folks have left a workplace that is otherwise hyped up as the best place to work in the industry. We hear plenty about Google being a great place to work. We don&#x27
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by nilkn 9y ago
My understanding is that this is a very inaccurate portrayal of what happened, and that makes me doubt that you gave the memo a fair chance. He published an internal memo, but not necessarily a "secret" one. Someone else published
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by nilkn 9y ago
Not only this, but women still dominate nursing and many other healthcare professions, and women are increasingly preferred for certain specialist roles (e.g., OB-GYNs). Nursing is one of the best all-around careers in the US when you take
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by nilkn 9y ago
I meant for my question to be directed specifically towards the person making the claim about her specific coworkers at a specific company. This company has hiring practices that are not necessarily reflected across all of corporate America
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by nilkn 9y ago
It depends on whether the incompetent male engineers are just as incompetent as the incompetent female engineers. For instance, she mentioned a female developer who couldn't write SQL queries. Are the incompetent male developers at tha
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by nilkn 9y ago
> It's easier for Tesla to find someone skilled in car manufacturing than it is for other manufacturers to build the brand demand that Tesla has. They have solved the hard problem, but failed the easy. But Mercedes, Audi, BMW, etc.,
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by nilkn 9y ago
I think "threaten" is the wrong word in an at-will employment context where the employee can be terminated at any time for any reason or no reason, barring exceptional circumstances involving discrimination. I'd rather view i
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by nilkn 9y ago
I don't think it's this simple. There are actually many women on Tinder. The reality is women are creeped out by many men on dating sites and apps. If you don't believe me, go talk to some women and ask them about their exper
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by nilkn 9y ago
We rolled out 1-1s slowly and only because they received overwhelming support and positive feedback. We've run surveys which clearly show that people doing 1-1s report better communication and more satisfaction with their managers, and
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by nilkn 9y ago
For folks who live in the general area but not necessarily that particular town, I imagine it easily could be. For folks who have to fly across the world and take significant time off from work, probably much less so.
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by nilkn 9y ago
This feels like an especially relevant conversation to have during the holidays, when many folks will be out of the office, so the number of meetings happening will be way down. I've consistently observed over the past few years that w
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by nilkn 9y ago
> Taking action, based on the what you've learned while talking directly to people. If you don't talk to people, then you're oblivious to which actions you actually need to take. You may then end up doing things that have
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by nilkn 9y ago
I actually don't agree. I'm a manager who does regularly scheduled 1-1s with direct reports and I couldn't tell you how many times something unexpectedly comes up that wouldn't have been talked about otherwise. It's
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by nilkn 9y ago
Reading the full paragraph about Reissfelder makes it sound like a great deal of social engineering went on: > A few months later, Reissfelder, a laid-back German coder living near San Francisco, sold his travel startup to Expedia for $8
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by nilkn 9y ago
I agree -- this paints a much clearer picture of why the behavior in question was inappropriate. It reminds me very much of behavior my girlfriend has experienced as a public high school teacher. I could give you an entire laundry list of c
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by nilkn 9y ago
If you feel that you can no longer participate in HN at all because you advanced this opinion about Sam, then you might have a point. Sam's post was written in the context of people being fired from corporate jobs or feeling forced to
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by nilkn 9y ago
Sam gave an example of someone feeling sufficiently ostracized that they left the region . I don't see how that's very different. Feeling forced out of the city or region is very similar to being fired from a corporate job.

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