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by shahbaby 1y ago
This shouldn't be down voted. If you ever get a chance to hear the C suite talk to an audience that's not primarily engineers, this is exactly how they think. Remeber their job for which they get paid more in one year than you wil
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by shahbaby 1y ago
Even if the LLM solves the question, you still have to explain the answer as if it were your own in a timed interview setting where there will be another human who will likely ask followup questions to see if you really did understand it.
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by shahbaby 1y ago
Would you rather do 10 take-homes or 10 leetcode questions? Either way, when you fail, chances are that you will not get any meaningful feedback other than "we have decided to move forward with other candidates". If you had done a
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by shahbaby 1y ago
As much as I dislike leetcode style interviews, if I fail one of those, I learn what I can and move on. Failing a take-home is an entirely different thing. It's a huge loss in time and mental energy. I've only done 3 of those in m
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by shahbaby 1y ago
There's another layer to this which is not often discussed but is crucial; knowing when to talk, or more specifically, when to verbalize your thought process. I recall reading advice that you should just verbalize all your thoughts and
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by shahbaby 1y ago
If I see AI slop, I block the channel
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by shahbaby 1y ago
Seems like solutions looking for a problem.
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by shahbaby 1y ago
Mad respect to the Germans for taking a stand on this. The entire idea of measuring worker performance is not only dehumanizing but is particularly flawed when it comes to knowledge work. It's like trying to determine the faster car by
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by shahbaby 1y ago
Personally, I think the addiction aspect of AI is not worse than what's already out there, it only gets attention right now because it's new.
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by shahbaby 1y ago
Fully agree, I've found that LLMs aren't good at tasks that require evaluation. Think about it, if they were good at evaluation, you could remove all humans in the loop and have recursively self improving AGI. Nice to see an artic
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by shahbaby 1y ago
Let's take a step back and think about how LLMs are trained. Think about when chat gpt gives you the side-by-side answers and asks you to rate which is "better". Now consider the consequence of this at scale with different hu
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by shahbaby 1y ago
Always. Every interview exists to narrow down the applicant pool. Unless it's an automated interview, I would rather stay unemployed than take one of those. The prep depends on the interview type. Most fall into 3 categories. 1. Algori
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by shahbaby 1y ago
Not sure what you mean by this. Remote devs are usually better by necessity.
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by shahbaby 1y ago
I'll share a few. 1. Don't get tunnel visioned into the problem you're solving. Prioritize maintaining your professional relationships, especially with your manager, over all else. Prioritize what your manager cares about ove
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by shahbaby 2y ago
I'm in the job search right now but I wrote my own little tool to scrape linkedIn. It's a simple automation which searches through 10 pages of job postings and stores the results in a log file. This alone is helpful because it hel
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by shahbaby 2y ago
Honestly? I'm working on one and I'd be hesitant to share because it's such a competitive space. Finding the problem is not that hard but creating a defendable moat is.
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by shahbaby 2y ago
I've always assumed that the reason for rejection, especially if solicited, will likely not be the real reason due to liability concerns. I think that no information is better than wrong information so I never ask for feedback.
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by shahbaby 2y ago
Joined early stage startup. It was a thin AI wrapper. The team was young and inexperienced but I wanted to believe in them. Too bad they did not want to believe in me. Laid off shortly after moving to San Francisco. First time I've eve
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by shahbaby 2y ago
How is this different from just using smaller prompts? i.e One could just use their own prompt for the binary classifier right?
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by shahbaby 2y ago
Remember that interviewing goes both ways. If an employer showed this level of incompetence at the interview stage, do you really want to work for them?
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by shahbaby 2y ago
I'm not sure if this is the best approach but I've found just talking less combined with a heavy dose of humility helps a lot.
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by shahbaby 2y ago
Non-technical people are about to find out that software engineers were not kidding when they said that writing out code is actually the easy part.
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by shahbaby 2y ago
Do you want to optimize for output or optics? If output, WFH. If optics, WFO. If WFH is being abused then that's a problem with who you're hiring.
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by shahbaby 2y ago
Sounds like you'd be doing them a favour
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by shahbaby 2y ago
There are many businesses that depend on foot traffic of office workers. There are also many land leeches that need bodies in office. There may not be an explicit agreement where RTO earns a tax break but it certainly gives a company more l
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by shahbaby 2y ago
RTO is about protecting commercial real estate. It has nothing to do with productivity. I say this as someone who is leaving a fully remote role for an in office one. Remote workers do a lot of work for which they don't get the visibil
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by shahbaby 2y ago
Great read. Thanks for sharing.
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by shahbaby 2y ago
What does grinding leetcode mean here? The way you prepare is important. A focused approach yields more learning. Math is typically taught in a focused approach that builds on itself. Random leetcode grinding does not build on itself. But n
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by shahbaby 3y ago
Easy apply is usually faster than applying on the company site. Not a huge difference but it adds up.
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by shahbaby 3y ago
Most people underestimate the importance of timing. For example, you'll hear people say things like "Easy Apply" button is a waste of time and you should go apply directly on the company website. In my opinion, in a crowded j

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