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coward123 commented on Triplebyte acquired by Karat karat.com/blog/post/karat... · Posted by u/forbiddenvoid

IshKebab · 2 years ago

Presumably it depends on the interviewer. And tbf it seems like warent is the only person here defending them.

Still I don't know if I would trust hiring to unknown potentially awful interviewers.

coward123 · 2 years ago

Their people pop up in every hiring thread on HN, it isn't just warent and it isn't the first time.

coward123 commented on Triplebyte acquired by Karat karat.com/blog/post/karat... · Posted by u/forbiddenvoid

warent · 2 years ago

This is not the feedback I've received, and I conducted like nearly 1000 interviews with Karat. On average we actually heard from people that Karat was their best experience by far, and that we made them feel like we were treating them as worthy individuals.

Even people who got declined usually still left feeling quite positive, because we would turn the obviously-failed interview into, basically, a free hour coaching / teaching session for them to succeed next time.

coward123 · 2 years ago

My experience was the same as tedvim above - it was utterly dehumanizing and there's no way I want that either for myself or for the people I hire. The interviewers were smug little shits who didn't take feedback to ask questions relevant to the position.

Further - you guys lurk all over HN commenting like this every time there's an interview thread. It's submarining and it's gross.

coward123 commented on Triplebyte acquired by Karat karat.com/blog/post/karat... · Posted by u/forbiddenvoid

coward123 · 2 years ago

Karat embodies everything wrong with the tech industry, and Triplebyte wasn't much better. I've interviewed - and hired - hundreds of people in my career. This robotic approach with a focus on either standardized test type material and/or the leetcode interviews where how we interview doesn't match the work itself - it's just all so broken. I don't know the fix, but I know this isn't it.

coward123 commented on The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession stratechery.com/2023/the-... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer

mywittyname · 3 years ago

You can lookup how much businesses received in PPP "loans." It's staggering.

This is an anecdote, but I feel like it holds true for many small businesses. I personally know a person whose business received $160k in PPP loans and after it became clear that this was not a "loan" but a "cash payout", he went out and bought two new cars and a nice new house. His business was never really at risk due to COVID, since most of his workers work solo in the field where they never have to interact with others (I used to work for him).

The whole PPP process was a shame. There was very little oversight and it's becoming clear now that it was designed up front to be a giveaway to business owners. Businesses should have been forced to pay those loans back.

coward123 · 3 years ago

Lemme share still another perspective that hasn't gotten any media time... my accountant at the time recommended we apply for EIDL instead of PPP, for various reasons. So here we sit now several years later with PPP as free money, having to start paying on our EIDL loans, all because we legit needed the money but chose the wrong option. So yeah - very, very frustrating to see the ways that so many people who clearly didn't need the money got a free government handout while those that did need the money just ended up with debt.

coward123 commented on Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination indiatoday.in/technology/... · Posted by u/gunvantsr

duxup · 3 years ago

I worked at a company where this was an issue at one point (granted this was one situation among a lot of employees). A manager was pretty much dismissive of everything anyone of a lower caste did / wouldn't communicate with them effectively.

HR absolutely struggled with the issue. The HR folks tasked with dealing with discrimination issues largely had spent their time constructing company wide emails and classes that revolved around white folks discriminating against others / concepts of privilege, absolutely froze when faced with a discrimination issue outside that stereotype.

Long story short legal eventually was the brave one and decided that yes it was discrimination and the manager in question was asked to move on. The folks he refused to work with were compensated and their status in the company (pay scale, etc) was corrected.

As one of my Indian college's observed about the manager in question "If he was white this would have been dealt with sooner."

Credit to my Indian coworkers who really pushed this issue with HR and made legal act in the end. They wanted nothing to do with this kind of behavior.

coward123 · 3 years ago

I'm a white dude, and had an incident a number of years ago in which a group of Indian contractors basically didn't want to work with me because I was a white dude. Used a number of slang racist terms in my direction. I didn't make a stink about it because I was a consultant just there on a short-term project, but it was memorable. As another commenter suggested, even the whole "white people" branding that happens in social media is comical, given centuries of one white group looking down on another white group. I'm glad to see this kind of social dialog about racism / classism in all of its forms and think it is very worthwhile to realize that it isn't just about the stereotype of white (males) hating on everyone else as is generally portrayed.

coward123 commented on Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse? backreaction.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

coward123 · 3 years ago

Hobby beekeeper here... I kinda disagree with her final summary... I get her point, but there are benefits to encouraging more people to keep them:

-- Additional pollinators.

-- Awareness. I've witnessed for myself in my own backyard the effects of our unusual weather this spring (ahem: climate change) through observing how my bees are interacting with my garden and trees.

-- Overall benefit: Personally, tending them makes for great therapy and my neighbors love the honey.

-- Advocacy. When you are in-tune with the impact of climate change, pesticides, herbicides, and overall aware of the ecology around you, you are more likely to make political and consumer choices based on those learned / observed experiences.

Perhaps its a coincidence, but I noticed more native bees in my garden now too. I don't think I've done anything net-new in terms of flowers or trees since I started keeping honey bees, but maybe I'm just more aware of the native bees now? Disappointed I've not been able to attract Mason bees, but I've got at least three other varieties buzzing around regularly and I've identified the hive of at least one of those types.

coward123 commented on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade apnews.com/article/aborti... · Posted by u/uptown

rufus_foreman · 3 years ago

>> is that not the same argument being made in interpreting the 2nd amendment as not about militias (IE: a standing army) but the rights of the individual?

Militia does not mean standing army. From the Supreme Court Heller decision https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf, page 2:

"The “militia” comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. The Antifederalists feared that the Federal Government would disarm the people in order to disable this citizens’ militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule. The response was to deny Congress power to abridge the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear arms, so that the ideal of a citizens’ militia would be preserved."

You can read pages 1 and 2 of that decision to see the summary of the Supreme Court's argument for why 2nd Amendment rights are individual rights.

coward123 · 3 years ago

There are many that would say Heller was an activist court making up law and completely overlooked precedent in Miller, in the same way the current court is overturning decades of precedent in another issue.

coward123 commented on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade apnews.com/article/aborti... · Posted by u/uptown

endisneigh · 3 years ago

Is it?

> He emphasized a line the majority opinion that said "[n]othing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion." "We have also explained why that is so: rights regarding contraception and same-sex relationships are inherently different from the right to abortion because the latter (as we have stressed) uniquely involves what Roe and Casey termed 'potential life,'" Alito said.

coward123 · 3 years ago

um... why do you think these conservative judges were named to the court? They know exactly what they are doing and have every intention of ending contraception, sending women's rights back to the dark ages, and screwing over anyone not straight, Christian, and white. That's the job they were nominated to do.

coward123 commented on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade apnews.com/article/aborti... · Posted by u/uptown

unsui · 3 years ago

Reading the various discussions on HN, it is obvious that HN skews male.

The vast majority of threads are either regarding the interpretation of legal frameworks and their implications, or asserting a-priori values on start of life and following the rational implications thereof.

No-where do I see any discussions, or even caring about, how this affects women directly: the ability to govern their own bodies, their reproductive (and civil) rights. Or just the fact that they are de-jure 2nd-class citizens.

coward123 · 3 years ago

Consider this a bit of code switching. Many of us absolutely are concerned about what this means for women, but we also know that this forum skews male and a particular kind of male. So we are making the argument here that resonates with this forum.

You are right though that more people overall - even those who skew conservative and pro-individual rights, should realize that if you take away rights from women, and then homosexuals, and then people who want to be married to someone of a different race... where does it end in terms of stripping away individual rights? I'd argue that if you view women's health care as a matter of individual freedom and rights, then is that not the same argument being made in interpreting the 2nd amendment as not about militias (IE: a standing army) but the rights of the individual? If I can tell women they can't have a set of health care services, what's stopping the government from telling men that they can't have a different set of health care services?

coward123 commented on Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it? · Posted by u/lawgimenez

gaws · 3 years ago

> The editorial / opinion pages of both NYT and WaPo ruined them for me. Thinking people want to read provocative, thoughtful perspectives that may challenge them, but the people and the positions in those pages are by and large, utter trash.

It sounds like you're emo-quitting over published perspectives that might be too challenging for you.

coward123 · 3 years ago

Oh for Pete's sake go back to your mom's basement you troll. Have you looked through your comments on this thread and others? You aren't adding to the dialog here, you are just being a jerk. No, I don't find the opinions of these writers challenging rather I get tired of having to go find sources that show just how munch bunk gets published. My beef is that I expect better from what are supposed to be journalistic leaders.