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by tchaffee 6y ago
It was great and I enjoyed working with them. That's why even though interviewing is broken at most companies I enter the process assuming the best and with an open mind. I'm disappointed 90% of the time, but you don't want t
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by tchaffee 6y ago
There was no interview. Not even a phone call. After I submitted the 3 hour paid assignment they hired me by giving me access to Slack and we just started working together. One of the smoothest and easiest "interviews" I've e
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I'm curious what makes you think we are relaxing barriers to entry? The senior engineers I've hired are highly productive. And diverse. My process does not have a low barrier to entry. The goal is to use more accurate signals. Ins
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Safe? Air pollution has been estimated to kill about 200,000 Americans per year. With the recent VW scandal of modifying software to cheat at pollution tests we can eliminate safe in for that company. Anyone remember when Ford accountants c
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It's not mental gymnastics. The point is to challenge yourself as an interviewer to reveal a diamond in the rough. Some people suck at interviews and are great at coding. I've hired a lot of them and we've made a lot of money
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Its mission to sell advertising? People on both sides are lying when this question gets asked and answered.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I recently did one of these where I was paid at half the hourly rate of the job offer. There was an initial unpaid assignment that was difficult but totally related to most engineers' day to day work. That took less than 30 minutes. An
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by tchaffee 6y ago
You've just slightly improved upon a very broken way of interviewing engineering candidates. I've been paid by clients happy with the results to do everything from cryptography to writing a compiler / interpreter. Very comput
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by tchaffee 6y ago
The best advice I ever got about interviews is to figure out ways to prove yourself wrong about what you think about the candidate. Although it's good advice for a candidate who seems too perfect, this advice really shines when someone
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Due to a lack of imagination and people who don't host interviews on a regular basis so they never put in the effort to get good at it. When I conduct a technical interview we are going to end up doing some stuff you do in your 9-5. An
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I agree you have to be careful. However the takehomes I have had were a few hours of work paid at 50% of the hiring rate and that was where it ended. Great experience. There are companies out there doing this to make a great interview proce
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> (where would the users come from?) I'm an engineer and I use loads of software. I bet you do too.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
What is an IC? > isn't giving presentations to explain your ideas - sometimes to people you don't really know - actually a significant part of the job? For many engineering positions it is not. There are loads of shops where th
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It sounds like you're trying which is encouraging. I'll give you a few tips that I hope help. > I adapted the traditional whiteboarding exercise Lots of engineer types freeze when they have to make a presentation. I remember a
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It's not a veiled insult. It's just an accurate description of what HN is. Outrage can be conducive to discussion if you're willing to listen to what some people's lives are actually like. I've had many great discus
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by tchaffee 6y ago
This article is an excellent example of why most companies should never ask about algorithms in an interview. The author has worked for elite companies and yet even there he rarely had to reach something advanced. I've worked on some c
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by tchaffee 6y ago
False negatives is right. You're skipping over a lot of good engineers with this approach and you'd have to interview fewer people if you could avoid that. How many times even without the pressure of an interview have I been stuck
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by tchaffee 6y ago
In my decades of programming I've never had to seriously consider these issues. I have used recursion and have written some pretty deep stuff like cryptography and writing my own interpreter (for a business - not a school project). I&#
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I already don't want the job because of the interview process. Talking to someone about code they have written and the decisions and thinking around their own code is so much more respectful and gives better signal. You should be doing
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> I think you understand why citing a list tangentially related statements with entirely different intent And yet you cited an article on divorce which had little to do with the topic. When I challenged that, you dug in harder and quoted
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> I genuinely do not understand how someone could possibly claim that simply acknowledging that a victim has influence on their situation is already victim blaming. The dangerous neighborhood example is such a classic that it's easy
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> It is simply a fact that an individual often has influence on the situation where they have been the victim. That's victim blaming. And definitely not appropriate when we are talking about society oppressing someone. No one person
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Agreed that nothing is urgent here. It's intentionally an ivory tower. Which is great if society already treats you well.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> Speaking as a minority Thank you for speaking up. I often think of HN as ivory tower. It feels great for people who have zero urgency to address social issues because those social issues don't affect them in any way. In fact, thos
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> If they actually believe in what they say, you have just further radicalized them. That's classic victim blaming and no one should take these threats seriously. Any further radicalization of a viewpoint is entirely the responsibil
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Some things are urgent and demand outrage. While the Declaration of Independence might at first glance appear to be an example of decoram, it was not. What it said is that we are done entertaining your ideas and will now start to kill those
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I'm not sure how you have a civil discussion about inhumane acts that are supported by an oppressive system. Sometimes the only appropriate reaction is outrage. Just as an example I wouldn't engage in a civil conversation about wh
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by tchaffee 6y ago
So they did slow down old phones and they lied about it and they had to settle a huge lawsuit as a result? And you were expecting that to change my mind?
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Google's main income comes from its adverts business and that heavily relies on data collected from its users. Mail, translate, maps, and search are monetized. It's just not you paying for them. If you all of a sudden start using
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Why are you so confident Google Translate is not monetized? "We collect information to provide better services to all our users — from figuring out basic stuff like which language you speak, to more complex things like which ads you’ll

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