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by throwawayosiu1 9y ago
I would really like to know what is unethical (or even illegal) about this (just so I can understand this correctly). Uber * created multiple fake accounts on lyft to know about it's drivers * figured out that it's drivers were as
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
> First off, very few very early stage startups expect you to work for free until you get funded. Exceptions being that you're a co-founder or an unpaid intern that never touches code. Obviously this is not something I have a lot of
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
> That's pretty bad though I wonder if it's actually illegal. In the USA most employment is "at will" so companies can fire you for anything or nothing. I'm not sure where taking vacation/sick days counts fr
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
A lot of Canadians have this attitude too. A very close friend of mine works for OPG (via a contractor). OPG and his contractor both have agreed to give him 2 weeks paid time off, and ~ 1 week of sick time off. However, taking time off ensu
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
They all do. the first ones offer anywhere between 30% (if you are a co-founder), 15% - 1% (if you are in the first 10 to get hired). The 2nd type offer equity (generally less than 1%) and in all honesty it's pointless - chances are th
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
Everything from: 1. how you'd handle customers for various problems? (which seems fair enough). 2. some coding questions (my friend did this in matlab but they wanted him to do it in python). 3. some IQ questions 4. some questions abou
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
Shopify seems interesting. There really are not that many tech companies in Toronto (and that are hiring unless you have 5+ yrs of experience). Either 1. you have very very early stage startups (that expect you to work for free till they ge
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
A friend of mine was selected for a Support Role (that too, a temp one). They had him and a bunch of other come in on the same day, and write a 16 page exam. From what I understand, my friend didn't like the atmosphere and was already
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
Something that annoys me the most about top hat is not the product but the company: 1. almost every month they enter their info for the HN Who's Hiring thread. 2. BUT they don't seem to ever respond apart from something automated
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
I did go through the entire process (3 tests in total, the first 2 were as he mentioned and the final test was a couple of coding questions - pretty basic stuff tbh) However, I was disqualified for being out of the frame for less than a sec
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
1. How exactly are the sysadmins graded? (because in the end, let's be real...this tool will most probably be used by HR folks to filter out candidates and they'd not care too much if you send over a screencast/replay of what
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
Throwaway from my main account. I am a recent grad and I was looking for a job since May to Sept. I applied to a lot of places from the HN Who's hiring threads. I thought I'd post my stats below: Remote: I applied to around 25 of
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
Throwaway so as to not associate with my main account. 1. They always copy paste their comment every month (been noticing since May) 2. They never reply to emails sent (neither confirmations nor updates) 3. A friend interviewed there for a
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
Very recently, a close friend was looking for a job (as a junior dev - focused on web). After applying and getting rejected, we decided to try a different approach - he basically gave up and decided to the following: 1) added buzz keywords
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
While I was interested in computers since I was young (at about 3) - my interests started with gaming and "hacking". Over time, I wanted to be a "hacker" and I started to look into actual software development. But till a
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
all 3 startups were bootstrapped. One of them is in the process of finding investors, the other 2 are still in their early stages (with no new hires).
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
I'm in the process of applying for Canadian Citizenship so I can't leave the country at the moment - but I am open to moving to BC if I have to.
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
I'm just graduated and living in Toronto. I have gone to over 100 interviews at various companies - startups, major corps, banks (no I'm not kidding...in fact, once I do get a job, I'll do a massive write-up on what it's
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
Most decent companies there, generally don't do that. However, there are always exceptions. Furthermore, this issue generally plagues the contractor companies (those that provide workers to bigger govt companies - who don't really
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
I'm not too sure about iMessage (I was a kid when it first debuted in UAE). But I do remember them having an outright ban on BBM (for about 3 days) till Blackberry had a local datacenter (and I believe provided the govt access to the m
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
that was a bad choice of words from my end. Sorry. By "have fun", I meant - go around, visit places, hang out with friends, shop etc. While I am personally not aware of premarital sex, alcohol consumption is fine (as long as you
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by throwawayosiu1 10y ago
I lived in UAE for 10 years. All I can say is...it's not a "bad" place if: 1) you are working as a direct hire for any of the govt companies (Adnoc, Etisalat, etc.). 2) if not, you are contracted directly by those companies 3