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by sage76 9y ago
Is it the same in CS as far as industry positions are concerned?
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Ask HN: What is hiring like in industry research labs?
2 points by sage76 9y ago|0 comments
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> A year has passed and I'm thinking of partnering with another two business guys. These guys came to me and explained their idea. I'm pretty impressed with it, but not yet sure if they'd make great partners. The 2 busines
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by sage76 9y ago
Wow, this almost exactly like where I worked, except peer reviews were also there. People would put in little stuff like "he once made xyz mistake in coding" (on local machine mind you, not on staging and not at all on production)
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by sage76 9y ago
Amazon is going for a "Try and buy" thing, not a styling service.
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The only profitable ecommerce company to IPO apart from Amazon and EBay.
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by sage76 9y ago
> Ask what needs to be figured out and where their weak links and hurdles are. > Ask them to tell you what they don't know And what if the situation is of them not knowing what they don't know? Unknown unknowns are there....
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Ask HN: How do you know that a startup is worth joining or not?
3 points by sage76 9y ago|3 comments
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Jeff bezos had 2 engineers working with him from the beginning. Maybe not the same as co-founders, but having a team and support structure can help. Aaron Patzer, on the other, was truly on his own.
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I was checking public profiles of product managers on linkedin, and there seems to be a preponderance of ex-consulting + MBA guys in Product management. Very few engineers breaking in without an additional degree, generally an MBA. What do
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by sage76 9y ago
This is all I remember now : An array represents a binary tree like this : 1 / \ 2 3 \ / 4 5 / 6 is represented as : 1 2 3 * 4 5 * 6 so apart from the last level, any missi
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by sage76 9y ago
What are these companies that ask fizzbuzz? Every company I have applied to lately, asks me impossibly tough questions on hackerrank, which have to be done in like 30 minutes each. That would mean perfect syntax, and perfect coverage of tes
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by sage76 9y ago
> The mistake I've seen immigrants make is move to Canada, then move to the US on an H1B, L1 or other visa before attaining Canadian citizenship, lose their Canadian PR due to leaving the country permanently, then lose their US job
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by sage76 9y ago
Poignant for me, I haven't been able to decide on where to move. US is still the big whale as far as tech opportunities go, but for Indians going there now, permanent residency is not possible within their lifetimes, with an 80+ year w
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Ask HN: What are interviews like in non-software engineering professions?
16 points by sage76 9y ago|6 comments
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I don't know why you got the downvotes. Caste politics has been rampant in India. Fiscal management is an afterthought, if at all that. Most of the elected officials and bureaucrats are there to line their pockets. Not unlike some othe
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by sage76 9y ago
> One of the reasons public sector banks might be indulging in distress sales, is probably corruption It is. Example : http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/money-and-banking/syndic... Considering the ineffectiveness
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by sage76 9y ago
> I don't know what market you're in, but it's definitely hard to find good people in Silicon Valley. Depending on how you define "good", I would dispute the assumption that every company deserves good people. In
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by sage76 9y ago
On Angelist, there are many in Canada that SAY they are willing to sponsor a visa, but I haven't had any luck yet. I guess it depends on the kind of visa required. I am in the same boat as you, looking for an international position. Tr
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You JUST said, that the terms won't matter, the vesting won't matter if you leave, since it is a red flag. You implied that "doing your homework" may not protect you, since even vested equity of an ex-cofounder might be
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I would be very surprised if senior leadership candidates tolerate this kind of nonsense. Someone who could be senior management at the big 5 will not put up with 6-10 (sometimes more) rounds of relentless grilling. This kind of process is
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Maybe his/her point is that we should not encourage the idea of having side projects as normal and expected. For many MANY of us (probably the vast majority), this is only our profession. We should treat it as such. Even top lawyers wh
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by sage76 9y ago
I asked someone in the medical profession how he got his recent job. He said he called up someone at the hospital and asked if there was a position available. Got an interview the next day, and started the next monday. On the other hand, I
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by sage76 9y ago
Well, what you are essentially saying is that if you need money, VCs can and will make you dance to their tunes. That much has been confirmed by Parker Conrad himself, so I agree. It's not really a red flag since he could have a number
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What's the point of a vesting schedule and having an orderly way to exit if it would still not be acceptable? I think it's odd that people would have a problem with him owning a stake. Should he not be compensated for the work he
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Hi-scalability. That's all they seem to ask these days, "How would you design twitter?" etc. The only other resource is questions from actual interviews that people put up. To be honest, I find it hard to prepare for this par
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>Cramming may get a candidate a job. But they won’t succeed at the job if they don’t have the skills and experience needed. Nothing any of us can do about it. It would mean avoiding all mid size/larger tech companies. I am looking f
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I don't know about the US, but in India there are coaching institutes where you can pay money to be taught exactly that, how to clear interviews of Google, Amazon etc. They make you practise all sorts of algos on whiteboards.
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by sage76 10y ago
Location : India Remote : Yes Willing to Relocate : Yes. (Preference for USA,Canada and UK) Technologies : PHP, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Jquery, Bootstrap, AWS Resume : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6JvpMISem
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I know only a handful of people who did exactly what they wanted in terms of career choices. It's no statistical sample, but they all managed to make a living at it (except one, who is too young). More importantly, they are HAPPY. On t

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