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by solarmist 2y ago
And I’ve heard just as many horror stories about companies hiring from small companies that the engineers haven’t kept up with engineering, culture and practices and are coding like it’s 2004. Also, those types of stories tend to pop up wit
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by solarmist 2y ago
Fair
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by solarmist 2y ago
That definitely massively accelerated it but you’re looking way too short term that’s only been in the last 10 to 15 years. I agree that other industries are not YET at the point where software is , but you’re not looking hard enough if you
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by solarmist 2y ago
So you’re saying that none of those roles could be cross hired in the early 2000s between any of the other roles? That’s the point I was trying to make. Not that the software didn’t exist or people weren’t doing specialized applications.
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by solarmist 2y ago
Which was caused by cost cutting measures, MBA disease, in companies to begin with. We’re just seeing the end of the cat and mouse struggle that’s been going on since the 60s. And massively accelerated in the 80s. It’s unfortunate for compa
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by solarmist 2y ago
My understanding is even in the early 2000s it was pretty much just firmware versus desktop software with a small niche for Mac developers. Edit: my point was not that specialized software applications didn’t exist. It was that people were
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by solarmist 2y ago
This has been knowledge for the top orthopedic surgeons for decades (at least 20 years). But for your local orthopedic surgeon, it depends on when they graduated whether they know this or not.
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by solarmist 2y ago
I don’t feel like it was. Every role is hyper specific nowadays. And most refused to look at anybody deviating from their ideal background in my experience.
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by solarmist 2y ago
I've had both I've had ones that only tell you what the next interview looks like. Unless you specifically prior it out of the recruiter's hands.
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by solarmist 2y ago
And then there's people like me who have been at startups, midsize companies, tiny small businesses and FAANGs. Not everyone at a FAANG is purely motivated by the amount of money that they can get. I’m looking for a smaller company bec
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by solarmist 2y ago
In theory, you can do code reviews without larger context if the code is carefully selected. Apparently, some companies think any badly written code from their code base can just be selected though.
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by solarmist 2y ago
I loved the idea of code reviews interviews, i've had several good ones, until yesterday when I had my first bad code review interview. They asked me to review a function for a residential housing payment workflow, which I'm unfam
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by solarmist 2y ago
I hear this all the time, but I have yet to experience it. It may be because the small companies that I interview with are all startups, but I have yet to be able to get a call back from any other kind of small company. And the startups I d
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by solarmist 2y ago
No, it means having a security clearance. It has a very specific meaning. Having been thoroughly investigated by the FBI to not be an enemy or a threat to the United States.
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by solarmist 2y ago
The only reason we don't eat dogs or cats is because they don't taste good. Predators don't make for good eating. They have to work too hard physically for their food. It makes their meat tough. That said there are places whe
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by solarmist 2y ago
The only reason we don't eat dogs or cats is because they don't taste good. Predators don't make for good eating. That said there are places where dog is eaten usually as a stew because that makes it more tender.
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by solarmist 2y ago
We can't compare against the ideal though we can only compare against the world we have. So the comparison against dirt is pretty apt.
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by solarmist 2y ago
Does anyone remember his username on hacker news?
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by solarmist 2y ago
It appears that the stories shared are being posted to his Facebook account. https://www.facebook.com/share/1K49KzbZN7/
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by solarmist 2y ago
This is great. I just started learning piano this year. I'm going to ask for this for Christmas.
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by solarmist 2y ago
If you've done a fair amount of leetcode problems you can recognize them and feel their levels. Then afterwards you can search and confirm your expectations. It is not uncommon to have either verbatim or lightly modified leetcode probl
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by solarmist 2y ago
I would agree with you if there was a way to ensure feedback isn't interpreted as a personal attack or a shortcoming. So, this assumes you can separate feedback from motivation too. Authentic praise (as opposed to generic praise) is mo
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by solarmist 2y ago
Unconditional positivity destroys moral, but I think the effect on psychological safety is more nuanced. Your example is certainly a lack of psychological safety, but only you can speak to the causes of that. A common reason would be a lack
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by solarmist 2y ago
There are more jobs, but also a lot more weird stuff is thrown in. Overall, the industry treats it like hiring a single bad engineer will singlehandedly and inevitably sink your entire company. And the "boring" jobs copy their rec
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by solarmist 2y ago
Dang. This is definitely a SPAM account.
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by solarmist 2y ago
Dang this looks like SPAM. Edit: Nope. Definitely SPAM.
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by solarmist 2y ago
What's X86S? I'm not familiar with it.
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by solarmist 2y ago
I agree, but I think it'll take far longer to happen than people expect. Kids are making it all the way through college (at state or regional universities) without needing to adjust this approach at all. These kids are going to be conv
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by solarmist 2y ago
Sadly (for me) this now needs an annotated version for younger reader to fully understand. I'm starting to feel old on a more and more frequent cadence.
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by solarmist 2y ago
It could (and ultimately I agree it's probably what they should), but that's not what people are seeing juniors do. They're seeing them blindly trust the AI tools and think they don't have to learn what they're doin

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