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I haven't said anything about use of AI during the interview. However, the difference between using an AI tool like Claude or Cursor to help you reason about and develop a solution…

I only end up with absurd questions if I am nearly positive the candidate is using one of these tools. I was proven right too - I asked a candidate if he'd ever chopped down a tree…

Just to clarify - i should have said this originally - it's not about the use of Cursor or Claude at all. I mean that they were using something that was listening to the conversati…

To be clear, I have started asking absurd questions, and seeing what the reaction is. Those using AI assistants never balk at these.

I've been interviewing for technical candidates in my current role, and I'm seeing what I believe is a relatively high rate of AI assistants/overlays during interviews. The role I'…

DNS seems broken

"everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" -mike tyson If you're not doing some work to understand how your software works in real life, you're just a theoretician, …

1. Being informed about what the top level company goals are as well as department context and goals. If you can't draw a straight-ish line between what you're working on and those…

How many hours a week do you spend working?

Not fizzling yet...more than 1 year in... /me NEEDS MORE FIZZLE

Thanks for the reply! How do you communicate your state across the various groups? What routines/rituals do you use religiously?

I have tried this with limited success. Sometimes people respect the time you have blocked, most times not. So I end up feeling double booked and frustrated that my attempts to get…

Hi HN - curious to understand how much time engineering leaders spend in meetings. Thinking engineering managers, directors and VP's... Extra credit: What's the longest duration me…

I'm looking to get some perspective on my own schedule from this diverse group of folks. I routinely find my schedule dominated by 6+ hours of meetings every single day of the work…

Does anyone use a standalone SQL proxy that supports MSSQL? I'm looking for something that can do throttling, load balancing, query filtering, etc. Thus far I have found only one t…

Several times. The first two times were in the span of two years - 2001 and 2003, in the last gasps of the dot-com bust in the Bay Area. Both were due to the companies either going…

Anyone work in an org that has a combined product and engineering team? That's to say that there is no discrete product and engineering leadership, and that they all roll up into t…

Could be I'm wrong. I look at this across all locations (including where I am, in the middle of the country) and the majority of people I worked with that were putting in crazy hou…

The expectations vary mostly depending on a few things, IMO: 1. Life stage of the company (startup vs. mature) 2. Role (rank-and-file engineer vs. leadership) 3. Your management Lo…

Diving in on GTD and have thus far really been converted. Having a system - _any_ system, is critical. It became clear pretty quickly that my "system" was just me using my head and…

Huge value here - great to see another tech->mgr telling their story about how they got better.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to add something to this thread. Lots of valuable stuff in here, and I've got some rearranging to do with my perspective, and how I think about…

Agreed - my situation is currently a team of 20, but previously up to 75 in my org. I work for a mid-sized company that's ~2500 people in total.

Over the course of my career I've been fortunate to have able to develop as an engineer and sysadmin, and did very well at tackling the projects and tasks that came with those role…