foobazzy (u/foobazzy)

foobazzy commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

stirredo · a year ago

> There are no any open jobs at the moment

Are you sure the job posting is live?

foobazzy · a year ago

I think this is the correct link: https://apply.workable.com/hellotext/j/F1A027FBC9/

foobazzy commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

ben-net · 2 years ago

Costa Security | Lead / Senior Engineer | Chicago / Bay Area Preference (Open to Remote) | Full Time

Hi everyone. We are Costa, and we are building the next generation of network security.

>> who we are

At Costa, we believe in a world where it is easy to share information with good actors, and easy to protect it from bad ones. And we need help from great people to get there.

Our founding team has gone from garage to IPO before. We have experience at big companies (Amazon/Meta) and small. We are remote today, but have a preference for people near us (Bay Area/Chicago). We may not be fully remote in the future. We are early in our journey. We are backed by some great VCs. Now is an exciting time to join.

>> what we do

We are building an infrastructure as code network security platform that runs everywhere. We help our customers easily move their compute between clouds, data centers, the edge by making networking and security understandable, repeatable and seamless.

Our first product gives network and security teams a single, seamless interface to deploy, configure and manage complex hybrid overlay networks and security services running within those networks.

>> seeking great people

We are hiring our first product engineers. We are built on a modern stack: Ruby/Rails + StimulusJS, Golang, Python, Docker, Terraform, Packer and Wireguard. We are looking for backend, frontend and SRE/Devops engineers. Ideally people are familiar with networking and security concepts. Help build our engineering culture, one that embraces mutual respect, shared responsibility and continuous curiosity, and prizes an intellectual honesty that fosters both confidence and humility.

- Lead Platform Engineer - Design and build the Costa Platform Control Plane (Rails+). The Control Plane is responsible for deploying, scaling and managing a distributed mesh of software defined networking (SDN) controllers

- Product Engineer - focus on dev & client tools - build out our CLI in Golang, API SDKs etc.

- Devops Engineer - Build out our infra deployment automation and work with the lead platform engineer for the deployment functionality of our control plane

If you are interested in protecting information and want to be part of a dynamic team that enjoys working together to build something great, we invite you to apply.

Careers Link: https://careers.costa.security

foobazzy · 2 years ago

Looks like there's something wrong with "Gem" or the notion site. I keep getting the following message when I click "Apply and Save"

> There was a problem submitting your application. Please try again later.

foobazzy commented on I made a website to share rejection letters rejectedagain.lol... · Posted by u/jeron

mvdtnz · 2 years ago

I have a doozy but I'm not comfortable sharing it without blanking the name of the company. The short version is I went through a ridiculous 7-stage interview process only to be told at the end (the night before my 8th and final interview) that they really liked me, got excellent feedback but were no longer hiring for that position.

foobazzy · 2 years ago

That happened to me, but slightly different:

The 8th guy looked at my resume and, without talking to me, decided I'm under-qualified. He cancelled the call 1 hour before it was scheduled. Qualifying 7 rounds before that, and getting positive reviews from 7 of his peers wasn't enough to instill confidence over my resume.

Now I thank my lucky stars. Because that's a representation of the minuscule level of trust and team cohesion that these people have in their peers. Good riddance.

foobazzy commented on I made a website to share rejection letters rejectedagain.lol... · Posted by u/jeron

foobazzy · 2 years ago

After 1 round of technical interview for a Manager position:

> "Sorry, we're on a hiring freeze"

I pressed my contact to reach out to the guy who interviewed me. He said, 'Yeah. I like the guy. I gave a positive feedback' (I would've been his manager, actually).

So, what really happened?

> Sorry, we're only looking for women candidates for this position.

(My name can apply to both genders. The recruiter called and heard my voice before scheduling the interview.)

foobazzy commented on Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about? · Posted by u/aredirect

ggregoire · 2 years ago

Turn your Postgres database into a REST API: https://postgrest.org

Previous discussions on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=postgrest

foobazzy · 2 years ago

At one point, I really thought it was used in Supabase. But I guess they only wrote the js wrapper for it. https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-js

Came here to mention Hasura as well (not sure of it's popularity though) https://hasura.io/graphql/database/postgresql

foobazzy commented on Microsoft Azure CTO Headhunted for SDE II Position at Amazon twitter.com/markrussinovi... · Posted by u/johntiger1

foobazzy · 2 years ago

I worked for Tapchief about 4 years ago and we had an army of recruiters just scouring through LinkedIn and Upwork who look for interesting profiles and try to convert them to this platform.

What I learnt there was that there exists a market for chrome extensions that will help you send template messages and even blanket responses to all and every person in a certain search criteria. You can scrape the pages from search results and even extract contact details like email etc, if present in your profile. Before chatGPT, the quality of these messages were abysmal. But they've gotten better recently.

I think Amazon hires smart enough engineers to build bots that can authenticate on your behalf and do this for you. Your job as a recruiter then becomes to only filter through the responses.

I would also like to take this opportunity and blame LinkedIn search for giving absurd results. Because this whole process is dependent on finding profiles on their platform.

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kortex · 2 years ago

That definitely sounds like a loose connection, not an ECU problem. Usually it's a bad clamp on the battery terminal. Often it's the ground clamp in particular.

The easiest diagnosis is to rotate the cables on the terminal several times to rub off oxide build up, then leave them in an orientation so that the natural tension of the cable forces the clamp into good contact.

A "dead" (low voltage) battery will still cause some indicators/lights to come on when you crank, while a bad connection usually acts like zero volts.

foobazzy · 2 years ago

I was about to say the same thing. My car (nowhere near as nice as a Merc) had the same issue. There would be oxide deposit on the contact points and the minuscule amount of rust and crack on the clamp would render it useless on a bumpy road randomly (1 in 10 times approx). It was scary the first few times but when I figured out the symptoms, it took me less than a minute to get it to start.

foobazzy commented on Ask HN: What are some life optimization tricks you have discovered? · Posted by u/behnamoh

foobazzy · 3 years ago

Try everything, don't get addicted to anything.

If you're counting the number of days since you last had it, you haven't truly moved on.

Return everything slightly better than you found it.

If you want something done properly, do it yourself.

Everything has a place. And everything in it's place.

- Most of these are about avoiding mental overhead. So that you have more brain capacity left for the people around you and the task at hand.

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411111111111111 · 3 years ago

What do you think is cheaper, a touch display with a a chip that can render graphics etc or a speaker playing an audio stream from a webservice?

foobazzy · 3 years ago

Why would you need a touch screen? An 8-segment display with 2 clicker buttons for looping through history, and a little bit of memory (like in a calculator) would be enough.