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Some people say that things might start changing soon due to layoffs. I personally very much doubt it.

An interviewer that doesn't show up is really bad. Not matter where you work, you'd probably end up having a chat with HR if you did that twice. Sorry about that buddy!

My understanding of the situation is the exact same as yours. Which I find funny now, but obviously not that much back then. The interview was in person, and she only used her lapt…

Not really, it was technical support through tickets. I don't exactly remember the specs, but French and SQL were the main requirements. Actually, more French than SQL.

As we're all sharing some bizarre experiences we've had, I feel I have to chip in. I had 2 very weird interviews with the same FAANG company, before actually joining the company in…

The creator of ZSNES did a very interesting interview a couple of months with Zophar from Zophar's Domain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-oqvj4Tqk

A lot of very nice websites have been shared so far. Here's my modest contribution: https://blanchardjulien.com/ https://javascriptfordatascience.com Your feedback is more than wel…

Adding some new features to my static site generator: https://github.com/julien-blanchard/Loulou Glad I ditched Hugo a few months ago.

I really like your website, it's both very clear / easy to navigate and yet unusual. Great work!

Exactly the same journey here. I started with Hugo and ended up building my own static site generator ( https://github.com/julien-blanchard/Loulou ). It's been nothing but fun all …

I personally blog for the same reason some people play the guitar: I don't care whether what I produce is good or not, or whether people like the articles I write or not. It's just…

If anything, I have found my own disability to be a huge plus when looking for a new job. I'm one of these job hoppers and it's been almost 10 years since I have stayed over 3 year…

My workmates and I got laid off by our employer (a FAANG company) last summer and I spent 4 months looking for a job (in Ireland). I started using a simple spreadsheet to keep trac…

Thanks for getting back to me, I'll go through the examples you shared.

Hi Simon, slightly unrelated question. I'm a big fan of your work, and as I've learnt a lot from reading your blog posts over the years, I'd be curious to know a bit more about typ…

I second to this. There's often a huge difference between the languages and tools we'd love to be using, and those that we are allowed / forced to use on the workplace. I for insta…

Fantastic article, thanks for sharing.

Merry Christmas buddy. You'll find a ton of public datasets on GitHub [1]. Maven Analytics offers a monthly data analytics challenge [2] that you can enter for free. See their past…

Apologies for not responding quicker. For context, my team wrote scripts to automate catching spam at scale. Long story short, there are non spam-related reasons why one would want…

Not sure about now, but I worked in the T&S Webspam team (in Dublin, Ireland) until 2021, and we were very much enforcing cloaking. It was, however, one of the most difficult types…

I quite liked the article on Metal Gear!

https://blanchardjulien.com/ Hey everyone! I started this site during the pandemic, mainly to improve my written English. It's mainly around data science (mostly NLP) / analytics. …

As a Meta employee as well, and working in the data analytics / engineering space, I'm finding tooling to be pretty high standards actually. Though we arguably rely on a lot of Apa…

Some of the Triangulation podcasts feature interviews with: Bob Frankston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BAV69CPXzA Dan Bricklin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh0KBkC_21s I'm…