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How did you get into this field to begin with? Would definitely be interested in switching into a field like this

Any recommendations for companies?

Can't wait for the day when I can have my gaming PC be on a Linux based OS, thats really the only reason I have it at all

Same thing happened to me at Zipline, they give you a basic problem to solve in a take home assignment and then ask you to do something you’re “proud of” or to really show off your…

I would firstly make sure you are recovering from your condition during your medical leave my friend. My strongest advice to you would be to not burn the candle at both ends during…

A lot of times the actual business emerges from something that started out as an idea that wasn't working. If you are still enjoying working on things in this space and it seems li…

Sure as long as you realize you are really betting big, if you’re lucky and after dilution you own 0.1% of the company, posthog needs to sell to someone for a billion dollars for y…

Sure but the burden is on the company to understand what skills they need to hire for well enough to hire for the role, not on the candidate to just prepare for everything and roll…

Does Google not offer RSU’s to employees outside of the US? You won’t ever get rich off of salary alone, salary and RSU’s of a growing publicly traded company is a different story …

No I didn’t bother to read their documentation after seeing their website was apparently made on Myspace. As someone who has gone through the roughly 9 hour interview process in th…

If I’m going to sit through 9 hours of interviews to maybe get an offer, then yes absolutely. I’m not going to work my rear end off for 4 years to get 0.5% of potentially nothing a…

Ya I have yet to meet anyone who is passionate about analytics plumbing surprisingly, I’m glad posthog has found the 4 people in the world who truly are. What this really translate…

I personally think there are more efficient ways to get a high signal to noise ratio on if you are going to be a good hire or not without having the candidate invest almost 9 hours…

Ah ok my mistake, so that’s 8 hours including the review and discussion portion for the super day, then let’s say 45 minutes for the technical interview so 8 hours and 45 minutes o…

Wow. 900 applications down to 10 "SuperDay" participants down to 4 hires. All to work at.... posthog. What a depressing statistic. This felt like a humble brag to help make their p…

No disrespect, it's important to have people paying attention to these things or they would just never get fixed, but that's my take away from once being excited about going potent…

I wouldn't pivot to security completely, it honestly seems like that field has been boiled down to moving data from automated security jobs into Jira and chasing down engineers to …

Looks awesome, congrats on your success 200k sales is a huge achievement! What factors led you to seeking out a publisher, was it mostly getting art for the game or did the publish…

Don't start with web development if your kid is just interested in learning more about how computers work or writing some code. As others have said there are a lot of beginner frie…

I've worked on a few growth related teams at SaaS companies and have always noticed they seem to fizzle out after some time. Usually they are created to enhance in product educatio…

Unfortunately I used to think this was the main purpose of the interview as well, but have been proven wrong time and time again. The only thing that matters in most places is gett…

How did you get into game programming, if you don't mind me asking? I've always thought it would be such an interesting career but have heard horror stories about what the industry…

They used to give out a calendar every year filled with pictures of their executives (mainly CEO) living a lavish lifestyle. Posing with Ferrari's, ribbon cutting ceremonies, stepp…

Stop diverting the question, tell me where my assumption is wrong of needing to make 2 API calls to an LLM provider to do this or prove me wrong. If you're going to be firmly on th…

What is it that you think is so complex about this?