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throwmeawaycs
5y ago
Actually in our problem we wanted you to do it without a wrapper so while this works, 0/100
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throwmeawaycs
5y ago
You have to treat it like a creative field, albeit one which has logical rigors to it. I believe the correct way of hiring in this structure is to hire people for the Apprentice/Journeyman/Master artisan categories used in medieva
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throwmeawaycs
5y ago
bzzzt Wrong! No, you’re filtering for the tolerance of stupidity. When you hire idiots who are complacent to your stupidity then you are guaranteed a progressively more stupid environment.
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throwmeawaycs
5y ago
>A large reason FAANG does the interviews this way is because they can quantise it better and distribute not just the interviewing between interviewers, but also the training of new interviewers. Almost! They do it this way because they
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throwmeawaycs
5y ago
Your mentality is “throw them at a hacker rank problem and rate who had the best American Idol performance.” Which is braindead. You can claim that’s not your process but ultimately you’re trying to get someone to present an output based on
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throwmeawaycs
5y ago
I personally implemented major APIs and libraries that are currently being used in deployment by over 25m+ systems with 99.999% uptime. When I get called into interviews and some guy starts trying to get me to implement or work on some rand
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throwmeawaycs
5y ago
Ah, to me that sounds like you are a good engineer and what they actually are seeking is a good “follower/code-servant”. You see it’s good to filter applicants like you out because you may do nasty things like “question management deci