interviewing: Senior by reference, not by value

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Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

meatpotato posted:

oh, it's jobspring in downtown san jose

Yeah, gently caress those guys too.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2018 03:51

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# ¿ Jan 16, 2025 05:58

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

jesus WEP posted:

if the behavior is clearly specified you�ll probably do a good job coding it no matter how or when you write your tests, tbh

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# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 19:10

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

Fiedler posted:

some people insist that their team doesn't suck, but the general consensus is, "you don't want to work for amazon"

Yeah, a good friend of mine works for them and he has completely drunk the kool-aide. Posted this big old "well, actually..." thing on facebook about warehouse safety and got kind of bent out of shape a little when I 1) pointed out that as a computer toucher, he's coddled in ways that warehouse people never even dreamed of and it's a bit like the difference between being John Travolta and some poor gently caress in the Sea Org 2) pointed out that it's seriously the only real job he's ever had and 3) I repeatedly referred to Jeff Bezos as Jefe Kisses.

There was another one that was even more into taking the "ure" out of "corporate culture", but apparently she did a lot of time at Apple so she's practically to the manner born.

DONT THREAD ON ME posted:

also i completely forget everything i know about programming when i'm in the middle of a coding session.

You are not alone in this.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2018 21:32

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

qhat posted:

Just went to an in person tech screen. Pretty sure I flunked it, they asked me to whiteboard an algorithm to serialise a binary tree structure (not a binary search tree, just any unsorted binary tree) and one to deserialise it into the same structure. I got there in the end but there was a lot of prompting. Also not sure if the company culture is really my thing anyway though, but I would've been interested in seeing the salary they offer.

And what kind of silly poo poo does the company actually do?

# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 05:04

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

jit bull transpile posted:

this is the thread for picking apart interview bs. take your nerd poo poo somewhere else *flexes jock muscles at u*

Really? I fought in the άβ/ λ λ λ wars of 1984. Didn't see you there, when our jockstraps were burning with liquid heat.

I served with Frederick "The Ogre You rear end in a top hat" Palowaksi. I knew Ogre. Ogre was a friend of mine. Jit, you are no Ogre.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 07:01

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

You can always tell when I'm ambienposting because it makes sense and may actually contain useful information.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2018 02:05

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

Rex-Goliath posted:

awfully roundabout way to say you've never taken ambien

I like to take the scenic route. Sue me.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2018 04:40

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

jit bull transpile posted:

dreamhost

They're in L.A., not Seattle. Sounds about right for their interview process, tho. Those guys were dicks.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2018 04:44

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

Always apply directly if they let slip the company name. Always. Because gently caress those clowns.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2018 19:34

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

ADINSX posted:

Wait so what was the incentive to sign?

I would also like to know.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2018 03:54

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

Mostly it's just dick-waving and shibboleths, because if I had a nickel for every conference room grilling over binary trees/hash collisions/linked lists I've slogged through only to find, for one example, a script that was ran every 30 minutes whose runtime started to go over. The problem? It was using a fresh connection to postgres for nearly every goddamn query. After fixing that, runtime was down to about a minute and a half.

So just keep that in mind when you feel lovely about bombing the Stupid Coder Tricks portion of the interview, because the person judging you probably writes incredibly lovely code despite their mastery of toy problems. And they probably write off-putting furry erotica in their spare time.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2018 20:46

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

Fluue posted:

If you get a code "challenge"/takehome assignment that is 99% solvable using a well-regarded 3rd-party package, should you use that library or just slap something together that is a tiny subset of that library but shittier because "should take 2 hours" does not translate into "production quality"

If it's feasible I do both.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2018 05:08

Ellie Crabcakes: Jan 31, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

meatpotato posted:

jeeeeezus the no-whiteboard-coding place gave me an unofficial salary offer about 35% more than I made at my last job

also i would be called se�or software engineer

this poo poo rules, it's my first job offer in five years and i still have about five more companies im in the process of interviewing at and will hopefully have the dilemma of choosing an offer from

ahh, to feel wanted