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I see that you are only targeting the big companies. This is really smart, since those companies tend to pay better and their employees will have a bunch more cash to throw at thei…

One reason is that this site only seems to have listings for the "top companies." These companies are very hard to get a job and and tend to pay well, so the home listings are prob…

It's hard to wade through the normal who's hiring if you're only looking for internships. I think it would be helpful to have a dedicated thread for internships and short-term empl…

I've had a similar experience. A company I was trying to intern at asked me to write a rails app for them before they would think about giving me an interview. I wrote the app (whi…

Yep. Flexbox is maybe the best development to happen to CSS in a decade. Makes layouts that were once impossible without JS into trivial three-lines-of-css solutions.

That's a pretty common thing. I don't see the problem.

Maybe. I've always thought it would be interesting to make applicants pay an application fee. This would cut down on people "spraying and praying" with their application, and would…

It sounds like your process went ok. But one hour tests are one thing. Projects that may take 10 or more hours are totally different. It really is amazing what some of these compan…

Oh God.

The point is that they pay you the $100k for the time you give them as an employee. They don't pay you a cent for the interview project, so you shouldn't give them a single second …

Exact same thing here. I've made it a personal policy not to tolerate these types of take-home tests. My time is way too valuable to spend hours on a project only to have it ignore…

Also keep in mind that applying to jobs is frequently throwing your application into a black hole and just praying. Sending a resume into the black hole is one thing. Sending a lar…

There's a lot of grade inflation, especially at the top level. I took 9 APs in high school, and they were, generally speaking, the easiest classes. Part of that is that, when you c…

There's a lot of grade inflation, especially at the top level. I took 9 APs in high school, and they were, generally speaking, the easiest classes. Part of that is that, when you c…

As if people who interview for Google don't just look up the most common interview questions and memorize answers before the interview...

He applied for an iOS developer role.

Typing "how to reverse a binary search tree" into google is not the same thing as solving a problem. If these problems were so reliant on individual problem solving ability, there …

Yep. I'm a current student and the thought of a professor doing some of the things listed here is comical.

Very true. I live in a a city where there are quite a few places to charge, but I imagine that there are millions of people who would be interested in an EV but don't have access t…

This is exactly what I thought when I read this. It's incredibly pretentious and doesn't come off well. That said, electric cars are more accessible than ever. The leaf starts at o…

It's not a totally unreasonable complaint given that Apple has a history when it comes to security breaches. My biggest complain is that they are keeping the old 5GB iCloud limit. …

Programs like General Assembly and Flatiron School are touted as effective ways to mint new developers very quickly, and a bunch of them boast hiring rates over 90% and average sta…

I don't think that's true. In my experience, development experience is relatively easy for students to obtain while in school. Internships are abundant (obviously not everyone is g…