IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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TJT
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A recruiter reached out to me about a position at this company. I did the first interview out of curiosity.
The recruiter had this laundry list of things to do in advance. Read this white paper, watch this video, have all this stuff prepared to ask him. I watched the video and read about the product on the site. An "AI sleep system for biohackers" yeah okay. I did not read the paper and did not take it very seriously.
Get on the call and say hi the dude immediately starts grilling me with these really strange questions. Just radiated Bay Area Startup vibes. Then had me grill him about the company because he honestly thought I would have read a 10 page white paper on their bed system before a 30 minute call just to see what was up with the position.
But their product really? A $4000 fucking bed that you have to pay a Netflix type subscription on? Puke. That product seems like a crock of shit for a startup if I ever saw one.
The recruiter had this laundry list of things to do in advance. Read this white paper, watch this video, have all this stuff prepared to ask him. I watched the video and read about the product on the site. An "AI sleep system for biohackers" yeah okay. I did not read the paper and did not take it very seriously.
Get on the call and say hi the dude immediately starts grilling me with these really strange questions. Just radiated Bay Area Startup vibes. Then had me grill him about the company because he honestly thought I would have read a 10 page white paper on their bed system before a 30 minute call just to see what was up with the position.
But their product really? A $4000 fucking bed that you have to pay a Netflix type subscription on? Puke. That product seems like a crock of shit for a startup if I ever saw one.
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ToeMissile
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Haus
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So , interesting quasi-update on my possible job changing offers.
The internal role at my current company which would move me into a "Mentor and develop young engineering talent" role that I'm interviewing for... I check in with the guy I would be reporting to to see if there are any next steps we need to get moving and he says they're working on the next round of people I need to talk to. And he lets me know he also needs to input all the AI analytics of the previous interviews into an AI which is guiding the hiring committee...
I'm so screwed.... If that AI is decent it's going to go over me and spit this back out....
The internal role at my current company which would move me into a "Mentor and develop young engineering talent" role that I'm interviewing for... I check in with the guy I would be reporting to to see if there are any next steps we need to get moving and he says they're working on the next round of people I need to talk to. And he lets me know he also needs to input all the AI analytics of the previous interviews into an AI which is guiding the hiring committee...
I'm so screwed.... If that AI is decent it's going to go over me and spit this back out....
Noodleface
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I've been complaining that I need more engineers for a couple years now. The fact I've launched some products has always come down to last minute crunch and literally barely getting it out in time. Well... Friday was our code freeze for our biggest launch in years... And we missed it
Just completely burnt out, overworked, way overstressed and there was no way it was happening. I dunno what they're gonna do but come Monday it ain't gonna be good
Just completely burnt out, overworked, way overstressed and there was no way it was happening. I dunno what they're gonna do but come Monday it ain't gonna be good
Kithani
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Noodleface
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What's even funny is the main reason we didn't launch is because of a ticket I opened 260 days ago. I am so glad that paper trail exists for my sakeJust show up and answer every question like this IMO
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Koushirou
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Took some good ol' nepotism, but finally had a job interview today with the company my brother moved to after our old one shit the bed (I got laid off there, he jumped ship shortly after since it turned into a train wreck). Moving to the next phase, so hoping it went well. Did a small assessment before this and next step is going to be a refactor test. Haven't done one of these before, but seems pretty straight forward and I guess is just a way to see your thought process on improving code. Hopefully I don't bomb it somehow.
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Good luck. Refactoring seems on the more reasonable side of measuring someone's aptitude than the typical tests. To some degree, it's why I'm complacent in my job and fear having to look for a new one. I did a path eliding question in perl, didn't finish, yet somehow got hired...
Noodleface
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Me too, that's why was asking. I actually found that VSCode's remote extension supports WSL very similarly to how it does ssh, so I'm using that. Got my snappy ctrl e and ctrl shift f back.
Koushirou
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Yeah, this is what I’ve been using for my home setup so far.
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Once you go Mac you don't go back man. I fucking hate the WSL.
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Their "AI" biometric monitoring and profiling of your sleep patterns or some retard shit.
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Depends on what you do, but the Mac is basically a Mach microkernel with a BSD-based, POSIX-compatible personality that is called Darwin. In fact, Apple hired a FreeBSD leader for that project.
You can basically compile the same code for OSX and Linux (except low level stuff, of course), and Apple even gives you an X11 server. So unless you develop device drivers or need things like direct GPU access ...
Windows on the other hand is ... total fuckshit, in my opinion, and their API and coding conventions are relics of the past, and are only bearable with copious amounts of abstraction or alcohol. Or both. Hungarian Notation for variable names is the stupidest shit ever: Bitch, you use a statically typed language like C and the compiler should know what type the variable is ... unless your code sucks. No need to force everyone name their Variables like "m_pszMyString" (stands for: a member of a class that is a pointer to a zero terminated string) and type that shit forever and ever. That shit was invented before IDE autocompletion was even a thing.
Also, whoever thought to name the function to open an (existing) file for reading "CreateFile()" should stub their little toe at least twice a day.
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