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I've worked at the same company for the past 14 years, I am one of the founders. We do mainly C++ work on Windows and Linux. We're in the financial trading industry. We have grown …

Yes, it is finance! Prop trading more specifically. We could set up milestones such as (1) implement this exchange interface with this latency or (2) implement this trading algo wi…

I work at a firm that has one product that is a very reliable cash cow. It is a small company so lets say the top half of the developers ( 15 out of 30 ) make a market rate salary …

I've tried searching reddit and google for this question on reddit but I can't find it. Do you have a link to that question on reddit?

I meant you might get bumped out of your room and even the hotel if you decide to stay another day for which you don't already have a reservation. If you have a prior reservation y…

Aren't most of these things something that a hotel could charge customers? You want to check in at 1 PM instead of the standard 3 PM, OK, that is more money? You want to be able to…

I did a quick google and found http://www.ahla.com/content.aspx?id=35603 which says that 40% of guests are on business and 60% are leisure travelers. This data is for the the USA f…

It would actually seem like a win for everyone as hotels could charge more for rooms that are better just like airlines do for premium seating. That room away from the elevator tha…

Does anyone know why I can't pick my actual hotel room when I book a room? I want room 807, not 805 or 806. Now you can do it with planes, you can select your actual seat. I want t…

I agree with you on points one and two but how do you figure that out in a interview over a couple of hours? I can figure out how skilled they are technically, I can figure out if …

That is a really great suggestion. I'm going to try that next time I find myself in this situation. Thanks for your time and input on this.

Since you say that code reviews helped him the most can you give some details on how that was done, who was involved, how much time was devoted to it, etc?

Interesting points. I do suck at hiring but I also think I'm better than average at it. Its just a really hard problem where if you are really bad at it in some absolute sense you …

I agree that hiring is random and the focus should be on making a star team. That is what I have done and I'm pretty happy with how it has turned out. Have you ever seen a big chan…

Have you ever hired a developer and after a couple of months thought they were below average and perhaps they should be terminated but you kept them on and a year or two later they…

I have a lot of experience with HFT. Lets clear all of this up. How exchanges work for dummies. All of the modern US stock exchanges work as a limit order book. Orders are filled o…