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I interview people regularly. These are easy to detect… not in a direct way but i can tell when you are being assisted by AI. 3 so far this month out of 12, for those who were goin…

i am the same except i use music (lyrics and all) to drown everything else out. i don’t. price the lyrics at all, but my brain is processing them because every now and then i sudde…

> Interviewing should be more about avoiding bad candidates than finding the best candidate. > This guy fails coding interviews. Then he gives coding interviews, but the people he …

Actually there's another job before that, I just don't list my full employment history. Before that was VP of Engineering. That's just my final title, however. I started that as a …

> Can we stop calling it "failing" when a company decides you're not a good fit? If you go on a date and don't get asked for a 2nd, did you fail the date? You're not just what they…

Yep, that was my same approach as well.

I don't think it's wildly optimistic, but perhaps we are thinking about it in different ways. I don't think I could teach someone how to implement each data structure in an hour, b…

This is pretty interesting, I hadn't heard of this approach before. I'll have to give it a try some time.

Adding another comment here, because this is part of the reason why I wrote this article. > These kind of articles make me sad because I (and many other interviewers I've worked wi…

If I'm not cut out to work in your environment, that's fine. I do disagree with your other conclusions, however. I'm not bad at communication, I'm bad at verbal communication while…

I, personally, cannot _think_ and _talk_ at the same time. It's just a stream of half-sentences, many of which my brain has already moved on from because what I originally thought …

The data itself is ordered (which is why the task is to print them in order), but the order you receive the values is can happen in any order (ie the processing was split into mult…

Yeah interview before Joel was base -2 conversion. Joel's interview was mostly a chat and we mostly talked about my dog (and other things I'm sure but I only remember talking about…

Sorry, I was paraphrasing the question and not giving every detail that I received. They also stated that there are no gaps, the values increment by one, and start at zero.

it's not impossible to solve, but there are situations like that which make any solution not work, which was a follow up question

They likely make it better. I rarely use my brakes unless I have to brake suddenly.

> The ChatGPT maker is developing tools with the US Defense Department on open-source cybersecurity software, and has had initial talks with the US government about methods to assi…

I believe that the title is expecting the reader to infer that the measurement is about plastic waste, not water quantity, which commonly is measured in distance.

Anecdotal, but I'm sure this is related to everyone adopting Tesla's charging standard, not just because the connector is superior. I have a L2 charger installed in my home, so my …

To me, that reads more like Figma is using OpenAI for functionality (which inevitably means they have to provide information for prompting) more than it reads they are letting Open…

haha no problem 1. 18 years total, 3 jobs (9 years, 4 years, 5 years). 2. I did choose to relocate for my 3rd job. I was specifically looking for companies in new locations where I…

yes, it makes reference to this allegation.

Since everyone else is replying yes, I'll give the single non-useful response I guess. 1. No 2. N/A 3. N/A