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There is even a vein of organizational management research literature on topics like this, see e.g. [0] [0] "Reversing the Extraverted Leadership Advantage: The Role of Collective Employee Proactivity." by A. M. Grant, F. Gino and
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I would say your experience is a significant outlier, especially becoming a consultant. I don't know how much of your previous job movements were based on having a contact at the hiring company: if few then yes your experience is indee
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Being good at coding, in the sense of making robust software products that can stably support components of a business, is way more than 20% of the value of a developer. Additionally, in my experience, it's way easier to teach non-de
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The trouble is that while most employers say the same thing you say -- that they hire for critical thinking ability and intellectual curiosity / talent -- almost all of them don't actually want that. Instead they want employees
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It's been well-known since at least the time when Peopleware was first published (so at least several decades) that open-plan office designs don't actually save money. Not even in dense urban areas. Not even over short time period
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I hope you're not suggesting this as a defense of open-plan offices. Moreover, though I think Hamming said a lot of right and useful things, this isn't really one of them. DeMarco and Lister, in Peopleware, even have a whole chapt
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> if a man feels that it is inappropriate for him to show emotion, then that says more about his own self-perception of manhood than about others' perceptions of him Not really. There is still an enormous amount of regressive social
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This reminds me of a recent HN thread about Amazon Echo. I brought up my skepticism that the undisclosed but touted Amazon sales of Echo were really a signal that the device is being adopted and well-liked by the consumer market that Amazon
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Big difference between adding the kitchen sink buzzwords vs. adding things you have some notable knowledge or experience with, but not mastery. Also, since you represent about 0.000001% of the people who might make decisions based on what&#
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I could not disagree more about listing only skills you've mastered. As long as you're honest about your proficiency, you should absolutely list skills apart from just what you've mastered. In every job I've ever had, sk
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> If you manipulated consumption to be identical, you'd still have status - it'd just be based on good looks or other such things. I feel like you didn't really read my comment. Have you read Harrison Bergeron? The premise
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Many highly skilled and experienced programmers would struggle with this kind of thing in a whiteboard interview, but then if hired would be very good at the job. The interview scenario is just not similar to on-the-job coding. It has diffe
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> I agree that there are status effects, but status is a zero sum game. No matter what you do, 1/20 of the population will be stuck in the bottom 5%. This is silly. You could, in one extreme, just implement some kind of Harrison Ber
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Some people may actually disagree that using the term "buy" or "bought" is accurate here, because they may look at the "transaction" and say that the "cost" is not actually a cost. In some cases it is
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Many people feel healthier when they are working, because it affords self-actualization and a sense of accomplishment. When employment conditions are so abject that they render it a bad idea to accept employment, that doesn't necessari
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I'm not sure I find it useful to provide a descriptive framework about this issue without also discussing a normative interpretation. In fact, I think I personally have a somewhat extreme view that we have to do a better job of even de
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I am disappointed that the interview did not include more of DeLillo's motivation for choosing to research and depict cryonics, or his personal take on it. Their underhanded marketing ploy worked ... now I have to buy the book!
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But why would you ever intentionally use (or vigorously defend) demonstrably bad tools? Just because you could do well with a bad tool doesn't mean you should or that you couldn't do better with easy-to-get other, better tools.
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When everyone misuses a tool, it's the tool's fault. And everybody misuses Agile.
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I just wanted to add that Andrew did reach out and offer an apology over the mistake in their process. As I told him, I think this speaks very highly of Predata. Very few companies would be willing to do such a human gesture. It sounds like
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If you go to this company's website, it says they are in Lausanne, in the canton of Vaud, which summarizes its visa policies here: < http://www.vaud.ch/en/our-services/new-resident/working/resi...
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I reached out to this employer during last month's Who Is Hiring thread. They sent me one email saying they really thought I had a strong background, then another email asking me for times when I would be available to have an interview
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I do refuse to complete any form of test or assessment if they will not guarantee detailed feedback ahead of time. I do reject a lot of employers very early on. 98% of employers treat employees and candidates like shit, so this is a useful
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I am not able to understand which parts of your comment are sarcastic and which aren't. Are you saying you assume candidates did not prepare? If so, then I think you clearly have a problem with how you perceive candidates and you shoul
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By way of example, I do not have a LinkedIn profile, and I left a Ph.D. program with a master's only. Though my degrees are from pestigious schools, I don't think school status should count for as much as it does. I am lucky that
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This is similar to "multicollinearity". I have two graduate degrees in applied statistics and machine learning, and did math as an undergrad, but I did not ever even hear the term "multicollinearity" until I got my first
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Because if they took the time to prepare for the interview and budget for an upper bound on the time range, then it is only professional and courteous of you to give them a full review. If you reject them based on their performance during h
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I had a different experience with Facebook. I was told what the technical phone interview would consist of, and that much was true, but I was also told I would receive feedback within a certain time frame. After my interview (in which I fel
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Most companies do not handle candidate review in an emotionally mature or professional way, and the widespread lack of feedback is one of the ways they secure protection from possible downsides of their own blatantly disrespectful and somet
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> Maybe the problem here is that I see a bfs as a fundamentally simple algorithm. Yes, this kind of hubris is often the root of the problem when so-called 'simple' algorithms get homebrewed, then later on unexpected corner case

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