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In every takehome I've delivered, the interviewer went "Oh wow, you wrote tests for this?", so I wouldn't sweat it too much
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Personally I'd try to do a solid job that does what is asked, and doesn't go too overboard (who knows who's going to evaluate your work, and during what boring meeting, and with what deadlines), and use the solution discussion afterwards to wow them with the extra expertise (here's what I did, what I could have done, but didn't do because etc)
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KidDynamite posted:got one of the 6 hours zoom dealies with apple. lord loving help me. i'm going to schedule it a month out because i need to study my rear end off for algo poo poo and honestly some of the ios frameworks i don't use on the reg. You got this!
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Corla Plankun posted:lol, I volunteered to "help" with a python interview and it turns out im leading it by myself and i need to prepare a whole thing. anyone have any fond memories of coding questions in interviews that gave you room to flex and didn't make you want to die? Don't ask trivia questions, that sucks. It's better to have a discussion over a code challenge or take home assignment.
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I don't think we should include bob dobbs' rear end in a top hat.
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Different strokes for different folks I guess.
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kdrudy posted:Interviewed a guy yesterday that, when we asked why he was looking, felt it was important to tell us one of the reasons is a vaccine mandate at his current job. Sorry, I was just having a real hard time with this one
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Smythe posted:"hysterical" is a gendered slur. mods? Go home Smythe
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Smythe posted:in a bizarre twist of fate, YOSPOS is my home forum. Too hosed up to believe! but true! I knew there was something wrong with you
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cinci zoo sniper posted:i implemented interview problem in 2 ways - o(nlogn) and o(n). they told me o(nlogn) is faster than o(n), and instructed me to further improve the former variant. o(nlogn) is faster than o(n)...... NOT
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cinci zoo sniper posted:other context for that interview: it was the first and hopefully the only time in my life where i had to type python code in a google doc, with interviewer copying it and running it in their interpreter When (not if, because lol) that happens to me I hope I have the fortitude to just hang up on their asses, honestly.
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carry on then posted:what is a bonus? A miserable pile of singles. But enough talk
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That's good poo poo pizza.bat, thanks for poasting
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Waroduce posted:got an offer at a pretty large enterprise healthcare software company. like a billion plus in revenue, pretty cool coming from a start up. This large company purchased a start up that was like 5 or 6 years old, the rest of the small team bailed after their payouts so its the lead technical and the lead product guy who is also the founder. Pays 150K, no stock or anything, 10-20% bonuses based on ~stuff~ , work life balance seems nice and my calculus here is that I'll get exposed to a real company that is large and operating at scale to dovetail with my start up experience. Its a very mature company thats been in business for a long time and has a serious market share. Ime working with offshore devs sucks if you're their peer having to wade through their lovely code. Otherwise, they give product people a deliverable, just like as if the team was local.
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Heavy algo screens are cargo culting nonesense because the big MAANG boys do it, especially for python positions where you won't be writing your own c extensions for cython. Your gut feeling is right and the right people will prefer someone that can identify the real bottlenecks of webshit (architecture and db)
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Steve Jorbs posted:Back in March or whenever I was speaking to a recruiter who asked if I was into crypto as conversation. I just told him, "No, not really," and then he went off anyway about his holdings in DOGE, GME, and AMC. This here is the difference between a recruiter and a crooter
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KidDynamite posted:was asking the dev interviewing me questions at the end of a tech screen "... so how does company x do that?" "i don't know how many other interviews you're on but this is for company y" lol negging your interviewer
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cinci zoo sniper posted:ill likely end up with the american tech job in the end, and with “likely” i mean “unless a giant asteroid destroys north america”. the finance job had higher expected tc, and likely higher tc ramp rate than working for americans without jumping titles or companies, but it ended up being a classical case of executives who can’t let it go and insist on hands-on operations involvement severely loving up the process of closing the contract because they don’t have time to read my emails thoroughly, yet do have the gall to try legalsplaining me my post-soviet civil law environment with eton-oxbridge british offshore plutocrat accent Congratulations comrade, we've fitted your back lower right molar with a cyanide capsule in a case of emergency. Now stack that paper
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You nerds arguing: The person you're arguing about : AnimeIsTrash posted:https://twitter.com/FourFourths/status/1482807455914496002?cxt=HHwWhMCsgczh_pMpAAAA
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Let bear
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:grats. this thread gave me the confidence i needed to not say a number first. signed the papers and gave notice but they are gonna call my references still? to make sure i dont torture small animals or something? Might for the file or process formality. Current job asked me for two references after i had signed the contract
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at my place we have associate eng before eng
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champagne posting posted:anything and everything to pay entry levels less You betcha
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Corla Plankun posted:is there a modern book that can catch me up on the new stuff? https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/tree/1st-ed Specifically, maybe, ES6 and Beyond https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/1st-ed/es6%20&%20beyond/README.md#you-dont-know-js-es6--beyond Armitag3 fucked around with this message at 13:23 on May 14, 2022 |
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Enderzero posted:reposting here bc it got buried in cjs by an hbag meltdown: Grats. A couple of devs are quitting current job where I’m at for presumably higher pay at smaller startups, which would be business as usual any other time, but not sure about how wise that is now with a recession over the tech sector looming
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kalel posted:question: what are actual good responses to the question, "what are some of your weaknesses" I've had success talking about my weaknesses if I've not only identified them but am actively working to improving them. Ultimately I think the question is used to suss out if you're capable of honest self-evaluation and if you think it important to work on your areas of improvement.
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ultravoices posted:how do you a/b test an interview, give them a lobotomy and try agin? Come in again with groucho marx glasses
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PIZZA.BAT posted:exciting pl/sql contracts in akron ohio!! PM shouts every night In Ohio Crooked devops on sight In Ohio Every day is a fight In Ohio, Ohio Got teams to lead In Ohio Main dev on leave In Ohio Pretty sure he got the 'vid In Ohio, Ohio (livin...)
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post hole digger posted:wife had a call with a crooter today and brought up salary completely unprompted why do we fall master bruce
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Kernel Sanders posted:the whole american 0-2 weeks notice is wild to me. over here it’s _at least_ a month, but usually 2-3 months (unless you hosed up and they want to get rid of you, then it’s a 3 month garden leave). That's at-will employment for you. The 2 weeks notice is a courtesy so you don't leave on a bad note. If by "here" you mean Europe, then yeah it's because we have actual employment contracts.
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PIZZA.BAT posted:interview went really well. just one left this friday with the guy who will be my euro counterpart sending figgie vibes, good luck on the dealio
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barkbell posted:So just had the call with the CEO. If my own CEO is anything to go by he says that VCs are very shy right now and that the market for financing startups is about debt (as opposed to moonshot investments). Might be an idiot since I don’t know anything about this, but i survived a round of layoffs at current company and i’m gonna stay put for a while anyway.
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i once set up a custom background of myself looking into the room at myself
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everybody clapped immediately
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echinopsis posted:is it bad to have a linkedin you never look at or keep up to date? would none be better than incomprehensibly obsolete
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echinopsis posted:in my photo I am wearing one of those nerdy pharmacy dispensing coats An image is worth a thousand buzzwords
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theflyingexecutive posted:are there any tech pm roles that are more entry-level than Project Manager? a lot of postings i'm passing up attach a lot of emphasis as having worked specifically in software pm (and specifically in scrum), which i don't really have. is most pming just "coder forced to schedule until they literally can't do both anymore"? Assistant (to the) Project Manager?
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:while the conversational stuff is garbage one of my hopes for a positive social effect gpt models will have is that it will extremely quickly make all humans dismiss any text which doesn't immediately get to a real point as bad (and likely ai). reversing a long trend towards higher word counts as a demonstration of work ethic/schooling/whatever. tldr
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2025 10:01 |
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AWWNAW posted:just got a written offer for major figs and it requires a drug test?!?! can you even leetcode those?
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