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I’m agree, design problems are indeed a good way to assess many things about a candidate. It works really well when you have a funnel of relevant and motivated people. Sourcing suc…

I've spent countless hours interviewing prospects and industry pros about hiring engineers and I have a pretty good idea of how it is done at companies across full spectrum of size…

Define a “tech hub” ?

Does anyone know how internet TV services like Katrina.TV obtain their content? Especially for foreign tv channels. Do they make deal with every channel? Or is there a marketplace/…

Dropbox?

Financial independence is important if you have better things to do with your time than work. And if that’s not the case - keep on workin! :)

"optics". when used instead of "perception". As in "Blah Blah created bad optics for our department". "head count" when used by mid-level managers, who want to look cool, instead o…

somebody built shared this a few months ago: https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com/#engineer

These companies have their own often quite robust recruiting pipelines, which are far more effective and predictable than posting an opening on their jobs page. Think about it this…

I realize that there are many types of async tasks, and I am mostly curious how would folks handle not so frequent and not so heavy ones. I.e. up to 2-3 times per sec or less, with…

there is nothing wrong with stock buy-backs. If you don't know what to do with your cash - give back to investors, so they could invest it elsewhere.

React on the front, python Flask on the back (if you need to build a small app quickly), or Java dropwizard if this is going to be something big.