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Mostly yes. But there were also some take home assignments, some culture fit loops, and many ML rounds, since I was applying for an ML role.

My last job search 2 years ago took me 9 months of grinding while working full time at Big Tech and +15 years of experience. After loops with ~30 companies I ended up with about 6 …

I got a Bachelor, Master, and PhD in Computer Science, with a total of 11 years of education. It's the biggest waste of time of my entire life. As I progress in my professional car…

> This exact thing is what software developers have been begging for since the beginning of the profession: Receiving a detailed outline of the problem and what the end result shou…

This sounds like surface level wisdom if you are in your earlier career. I see several problems with this advice, but here is the most obvious one: this only works if you want to b…

As a european living in the US, the idea there is a market at all is laughable. I tried to get price quotes for treatments several time just to get a "well, it's hard to say" or "i…

I love the concept of luck surface area. Worth a read https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...

I'm hispanic and my two last names are Garcia Garcia. That is two last names that just happen to be the same. When I moved to the US I could have dropped one or hyphenate them. I d…

I left my home country over 10 years ago, and ever since I've travelled back once every 1 or 2 years. Since 4-5 years ago I started to notice these betting houses cropping up where…

The argument that the article uses to critique AI coding is that coding is not the bottleneck, instead the testing and validation of ideas is. This is a first-degree smart argument…

We drove from Seattle to SF and back on a Model 3, and I would say there were only a couple of situations where I wish we could keep driving instead of recharging. Otherwise almost…

I also thought this was a pretty silly way of bringing up range anxiety. It's like a dealership selling you a gas car with an empty tank. Obviously the very first thing you would d…

This isn't discussed enough. One argument I've heard is that "this only applies to people who break the law". One thing to consider is how easy is to make minor mistakes that techn…

It's worse than that, it assumes that where you want to be in 5 years won't change during that time. My experience is that our needs and wants change over time, and they are shaped…

I live in the pacific northwest and have 1 week of PTO coming up. I wanted to maybe rent a cabin and chill with my family for a few days. Browsing Airbnb the cheapest options avail…

> In technology, AI is currently the new big hype. Before AI, it was "The Cloud", which unfortunately has still not settled, but are now also being interwoven with AI. Cloud comput…

So I joined this company as a lead of a team of 4 developers. I found a medium size Java codebase with not a single test. Instead of unit tests, we had a list of scenarios, and at …

> Don’t get a job. All advice is circumstantial, and this one seems particularly painted by OP circumstances. When I got my first job, I was living paycheck to paycheck and partial…

> the color coding program was completely misguided because it assumed that we didn’t know what healthy food was. I challenged the nutritionist to an experiment: Make two plates of…

People keep evaluating LLMs on essentially zero-shotting a perfect solution to a coding problem. Once we use tools to easily iterate on code (e.g. generate, compile, test, use outc…

I've met a breed of career min-maxers adjacent to Julius that I have a hard time describing. Picture this: you join a new team with a senior engineer, call him Pete. Pete wrote the…

This is what happens when you make your work most of your identity. At the end of the day work won't love you back. Managers will come and go. Projects will start and end. Colleagu…

> Remember, these technologies already have a track record. The world can and should evaluate them, and the people building them, based on their results and their effects, not sole…

Hard disagree. The system I'm talking about is the largest scale system I've worked with (millions of QPS, thousands of servers). We built it in such a way that we were able to rew…

> even further toward infrastructure, the slower and more thoughtfully you should move. These things often have far less rapidly changing requirements I used to think that, until I…