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Oh sure, their stuff only kinda works -- like the products of a great many tech companies. But at the end of the day -- well enough to have people lining outside the door. And they…

In what non-small part? Their business is built on the deployment of custom (if not particularly sexy) office technology and quite simply could not exist without it. There's also a…

two willing parties Please, this is a very old topic. The way society is currently configured, at some point, for all practical purposes, you are effectively forced to take some ki…

WeWork is, in no small part, a tech company.

And yet, "does violence to the rule of law" seems quite dubious in both the case referred to in the original article, and in the above-cited context.

You may well need to spot a deadlock or a race condition in code. The thing is - if your production system really ends up going haywire and losing $10 million every second or whate…

I came up with the wrong answer and told the interviewer that I wasn't sure if that was correct, and to let me know if it was incorrect. He blankly stared at me and said he wouldn'…

He told me finally "We expect Google engineers to be able to solve problems. What if you were a Google engineer, and you had to solve this problem, what would you do?" At that poin…

People who don't think of Comp Sci knowledge as a set of substantive first principles, just as meaningless tokens they need to memorize and regurgitate to get the job -- those are …

If you are stressing over an interview, what will you do when you lose $1 million in 10 seconds? Beats me - but the "skills" demonstrated in the interview process you're defending …

Over time, almost everyone in the team looked for opportunities to transfer to other teams (and sometimes companies) that looked like they were having more fun. You know, the actua…

Interesting, that instinct to Google for the answer is actually one of the 'culture fits' that we look for. Interesting, because many candidates would (rightly and safely) assume t…