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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It surprises me greatly that you wouldn't account for some base level of vetting of any candidate, and place my comment in the context of much of the rest of the thread, which is clearly about whether or not commoditized trivia testing
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Open plan offices are another sign of this. They exist to foster status effects that go hand in hand with the modern shift to intensive pursuits of rent seeking. As a developer if you're asked to work in non-private conditions, it&#x27
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I disagree. It's pretty obvious that no one would mean to literally hire someone with zero screening of any kind. It's unreasonable to read "just hire them" to mean something that extreme.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Only one or two of those interview descriptions mention anything like the bullshit tech trivia this thread is about. Most describe take-home problems, extended design conversations, and technical sessions that are more like extended convers
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It's what Netflix does, so your dismissal seems badly placed.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I totally agree. And no one should let hubris make them think otherwise for e.g. graph traversal algorithms.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Why doesn't that bother you? It reminds me a little of the giant middle finger that Bezos recently gave to his workers via his letter to shareholders, in which he effectively said that he knew the workplaces he fostered at Amazon were
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Why sadly? It's good that people vigorously and relentlessly call out Wolfram on the same self-aggrandizing, self-promotional shit that he spews into every article. Even better that it helps highlight the ways he degrades the quality o
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It kills me how time and again Wolfram writes self-aggrandizing, egotistical articles filled with glib little self-promotional asides, yet so many people seem to jump in to defend him. The Ada Lovelace article he wrote a while back was real
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> we've still avoided adding another potentially crappy dependency to our project. No, you've just added the crappy dependency == your off the cuff implementation (which is even more work since you have to handle issues and uni
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> I can't help but think this mentality is what lead to the recent left-pad debacle It borders on category error to compare homebrewing argument parsing with an overreliance on microframeworks extending all the way down to leftpad.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Having worked with some such folks in a quant-focused field, I can say that their performance was no better than average and in some cases worse. After a few hires like this, my boss actually pulled me aside and asked me to take over one of
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Sigh. I wish instead of the sarcasm, you actually introspected on the toxic and needlessly aggressive way you're defending rote memorization of algorithm trivia. For example, you saying > Source? or just trying to justify your own s
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If you did write your own argument parsing code, then yes the choice to commit to that was incompetent, barring some extraordinary situation. I don't think it's controversial or insulting to say so in the least. It's a solved
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Here, let me Google that for you. [0] < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting > > Overfitting generally occurs when a model is excessively complex, such as having too many parameters relative to the number
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> Easier to take 20 minutes and just write the tool. What? That would be a huge red flag in my book. Where are your unit tests? I'm not trusting your 20 minute off the cuff reproduction of classic algorithms in any business critical
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
No, overfitting is a real thing. Overfitted learning algorithms are generally worse at generalizing their ability to broader examples and new situations. The types of candidates who spend the time necessary to memorize algorithm trivia for
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
"We want to see how you think" is a hallmark of dysfunction. You cannot see how someone thinks from short interviews and coding puzzles. You just cannot. Anyone trying to is so far from doing things right that you want to run, don
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The hardest workers with the most successful can-do attitudes will simply reject your company if you ask them to do bullshit like algorithm trivia or HackerRank tests. Such trivia is the opposite of useful hard work; preparation for it trul
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
What if he is merely introverted, and responds well to pressure when there is not an awkward, immediate social situation? There are lots of excellent programmers like this, you know, and also very few workplaces that actually benefit from l
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The simplicity has nothing to do with it. For example, if you happen to be a very introverted person, then the social awkwardness of working in front of someone you don't know is enough to disrupt all your thinking abilities significan
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I've done a large number of interviews by reaching out through my network and those interviews are no different. The companies involved still have a process whereby they get your resume as an internal recommendation, then move you over
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I agree about standardization but unfortunately for lazy / hazing start-up types and for big bureaucrat types this converges to dumb shit like HackerRank, which (short, high time pressure, commoditized trivia) is close to the precise o
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
While I generally agree with this, there is one situation when scorched earth re-write should at least be kicked around as an option. If you are dealing with a very bad system that has not been maintained and has tons of candidates for thos
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
One of the main ideas put forward by Thomas is that the generic agile principles are basically a reflection of gradient descent: take a small step in the direction you think you should go, evaluate the value of doing so and the error genera
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
No, the grievances against Agile are just too voluminous and wide-spread, consider even Dave Thomas's presentation about how Agile is dead due to the ease with which it is subverted for political manipulation [0]. If someone as key to
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is very related to a comment [0] I made on another post yesterday, and some of the follow-up comments there. [0] < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11544367 >
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Abortions for some ... miniature American flags for others!
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Based on how ubiquitous it is to hear about agile failure modes, this suggests to me your experience isn't widely applicable. I'm glad you found some of those one-in-a-million workplaces that "do agile right" -- but they
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Subordinate is just anybody who has to take direct instruction from someone else. Doesn't have to be codified via job title. If you have a "team" that does Agile, you thereby have subordinates (the members of that team, subor

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