It's not about the stag show anymore, it's about the midway games that spew out tickets. A literal children's casino.
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I have a couple of favourite ones but one I always think of immediately is a time when I was tasked with fixing some dashboard.
Sometimes students scores would be appearing as zero despite their average score being not zero.
Turns out it was some very simple averaging that didn’t filter out tests with a score of zero. That zero would then basically poison the entire calculation and only produce zero.
I don’t know how interesting that one is though.
The bug is never the interesting part. The follow on questions are where the data is. How did you find it? How did you fix it? What made it memorable? Did it change the way you code?
shemnon42 commented on I'm a developer not a compiler news.radio-t.com/post/i-m... · Posted by u/redbell
my two favorite questions for interviews:
"what's the favorite bug you've ever fixed?"
and
"what's your strongest opinion in tech?"
why? because they are open answers and 99% of the time they bring really interesting discussions to the table, which can lead to understanding the candidate better.
also, they are good filters: if they say "none" and "none", i know what to expect.
> "what's the favorite bug you've ever fixed?"
I use a variant, "What's the most memorable bug you've fixed?" - and I use it as an indicator of maturity to distinguish L3 SwE from a L5+ SwE (google levels).
First, there is the time-in-field aspect. Simply being in the field for a long time increases the amount of time you have to encounter a sleep-depriving bug.
It can show tenacity. How did they find it? What did they have to do to reproduce it? Was it in prod, test, or dev? etc.
It can show maturity. Why did it pass test? What tests were introduced to detect it? Was it a new class of bug that required new testing? Were you able to add lint rules to detect it? Did you ensure it was pushed properly to prod and do proper follow up.
It can show autonomy. Did you update the testing procedures or just post a bug and hope the QA team fixed it? Did you meet with devops and share info on how to detect and mitigate it? Did you update the playbook at least?
So many possible places to dig in to get the "hire" when the default answer is "no hire". And if you cannot find any, then that's confirmation of the default answer.
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Needs a 2019 tag I believe.
The lack of any discussion of NFTs also indicates this is a dated paper.
I don't know if Google needs a new CEO, but from everything I've heard about internal Google, they need to change up how they measure success and who they reward. So many awesome products launched with tremendous hype, left alone to stagnate, and then unceremoniously shut down. At this point, I can't get excited when Google announces something, no matter how amazing it seems.
Your describing the outcomes of the old "perf" performance review system. Cultural issues like that are hard, but not impossible, to change. GRAD changes things, but as long as promotions are tied to shipping new projects and not excellence in maintaining those launches we will continue to see this behavior.
Cosmic rays are a cop out but a good plot device. They're so rare, but one could write a bit flip into a script for a novel or a tv show as the solution to any computer mystery.
Cosmic rays are more common than you think. Google's early infrastructure was impacted by a supernova (because their nodes were so cheap). But something like NOTAM can handle these single bit flips without a problem.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
File this under "early Google's infrastructure was a low grade cosmic ray detector."
Was the file in ASCII when it should have been in EBCDIC?
However things have been quite a bit better in that regard lately... :(