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by piaw 16y ago
The slow part is the death-knell. It's not just that it takes longer for you to complete your task, it's also that you get distracted while waiting for your slow machine. What's your first response if you hit the compile key and it takes lo
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by piaw 17y ago
Now that's a compliment. Thanks!
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by piaw 17y ago
The extra month could be a few things: 1. Extra interviews required. This has nothing to do with the HC. In many cases, interviewers themselves screwed up here, and told the HC so. The alternative would have been "no-hire." 2. Candidate got
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by piaw 17y ago
These things change dramatically over time, and as you can imagine, mitigating circumstances and experience can make one candidate's experience vastly different from another's. One thing I'd like to remind everyone about is that I'm writing
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by piaw 17y ago
Speed is important, but it takes a good part of a year for a new engineer to get up to speed. Compared to that, an extra week (which is what the HC introduces) for better selection is worth it.
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by piaw 17y ago
There's a lot of pressure to hire in fast growth companies. To prevent managers from just hiring warm bodies, Google decoupled hiring from management.
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by piaw 17y ago
Thanks for the kind words! If there are additional topics you think should have been covered but weren't, please let me know.
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by piaw 17y ago
In case anybody's been waiting for the paperback edition of the book, it's now available.
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by piaw 17y ago
Hi. Thanks for posting this. I'm the author of the book. I would like to note that this is not a book for founders. It's a book for employees.
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by piaw 19y ago
"What does it say about a biz that can only attract/keep top talent when it's competing against the junior varsity? How will that biz fare against a biz that does attract/keep top talent when competing against top tech companies?" Very True
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by piaw 19y ago
Schools in Silicon Valley don't automatically give you a network. You're at no more of a disadvantage than someone who graduated from Berkeley (definitely outside Silicon Valley). What's very important is your openness to meeting people and
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by piaw 19y ago
> Try riding your bike somewhere. You're kidding, right? Silicon Valley has the best year round cycling anywhere, and some of the best cycling, period. Maybe Switzerland in the summer is better, but that's about it (and it frequently r