A reasonable interview process is huge - avoid the Leetcode charade.
Leetcode is a form of tribal filtering without the legal implications impact due to pre existing bias
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baner2020 commented on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? · Posted by u/throwaway_43793
Yeah, very likely. It's the new gold rush, and they are commanding wages that make me drool (and also make me want to howl in pain and agony and envy but hey, let's not mention the obvious, shall we?).
I always forget the name of that law but... it's hard to make somebody understand something if their salary depends on them not understanding it.
Conflict of interest perhaps
baner2020 commented on Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US) · Posted by u/askhn234
You got the skills , companthemselves don’t know where the future is and is acting out in panic. The coding and marathon interview is only an indication of how toxic their workspace is. Not that you are suitable or eligible to get that work
Research what you can build, get with others and start a business for others are stuck with their toxic ways and you can reach any goal you want
baner2020 commented on Becoming a dungeon master for an interview propelauth.com/post/inter... · Posted by u/mooreds
Pretty much this. Companies needed software engineers, looked at what Google was doing, and copied. And they call themselves innovative for doing it.
A company whose smart engineers threw their hands up claiming no moat while they were the pioneer of AI
baner2020 commented on Becoming a dungeon master for an interview propelauth.com/post/inter... · Posted by u/mooreds
Part of the problem is people just memorize things for interviews. We interviewed three candidates that were almost exact copies of each other in their responses. Maybe they all read the same interview book?
I also witnessed someone give a completely wrong (algorithm) whiteboard answer to a problem. Obviously they weren't thinking about the problem as they did it.
Algorithm that were solved over decades and centuries are asked during the 15-20 minute demonstration asks it to be memorized
The problem is the sheer dumbness of those who believe it is important in the interview process
baner2020 commented on What it was like working for Gitlab yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/aragilar
From TFA:
> my salary was around €120 000 per year [...] For The Netherlands this is a good salary, and you'll have a hard time finding companies that offer better and let you work from home full time.
For his country, he was well paid and worked from home 100% as well.
> But if I had instead lived in the Bay Area, I would've earned at least twice that amount, possibly even more. Not because I am somehow able to do my job better in the Bay Area, or because of any other valid reason for that matter, but because I would be living in the Bay Area instead of in The Netherlands.
He says it was "not fair" that he wasn't paid the same salary as people in a different country.
There are no Victim Points to be scored here.
The author has a poor understanding of economics.
I feel you have less empathy for a another worker and stressed that others are competing with you
It’s ok for enterprises to pay different prices/salaries in different locations yet individuals don’t get to do the same is a flaw in how we are taught what we can ask for
We are trapped in the matrix , need a red by pill
baner2020 commented on What it was like working for Gitlab yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/aragilar
The flaw in the argument is the assumption that Directors were more adept than Individual contributors. Most dev shops have this problem as folks further away from the IC work , the least they can anticipate the problems
baner2020 commented on He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price ft.com/content/de5fea12-2... · Posted by u/Turukawa
My experience of whistleblowing even here in the west is that usually it goes very very badly. The only real thing open to you is to refuse to do anything unethical, quit and walk away. Many people can't afford to do that. Things ought to be different but we live in corrupt societies where the law is different for the rich and powerful than for everyone else.
Oh yeah… a country where most safety features… seat belts (for example or lead poisoning) are results of whistleblowers, yet the path is paved with retaliatory actions , hr taking it like a personal jihad to prove the conversation wrong …. I can personally relate to what it feels to take punches
If the person has pre existing medical condition like diabetes, doing good will literally cost one’s life . Living the experience, for voicing discrimination at employment situation
Have interviewed 176 attorneys over 2 year period with only 5 confirming that the discrimination is illegal , but they had signed agreements to not represent employees.
Found out that one can buyout judges, apparently a judge can punish a legal practice if they don’t want a whistleblower case be presented
Being rich definitely allows one to be ignorant all these ongoing friction in life