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It's hard for us to tell since this was the first time we were doing an "official" interview for hiring.

We did allow concessions for people who were not able to find time to do the exercise. We merged it with the pair programming exercise and asked them to build it with us in office.…

The exercise itself is a simple note-taking app with a couple of screens. We don't impose a time limit on candidates interviewing to complete this stage. > For a new project there …

We ( https://obvious.in ) documented our entire hiring process on our Playbook ( https://playbook.obvious.in/hiring/hiring-process/engineerin... ). Took us about a week to write ev…

We were sending email via SMTP from our Android apps for a while until we ran into quite a few cases where SMTP was blocked at the router level. We had to move to HTTP mailing to l…

People who buy Fiio don't buy them for the UI. The audio quality that comes out of a Fiio player is phenomenal.

I don't like how Star Citizen is being handled. Luckily, I never backed it and it's clear that the project is going to be undergoing massive delays and is going to be a huge mess s…

All! Mac OS X + Linux!

This is bullcrap. Some of the most talented devs I know work at pure Indian startups(Flipkart, for example, has an extremely good tech team) and there are a huge number of startups…