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It is a requirement of my country's regulators that I ask for my employer's approval before I do any other work for compensation.
Damn, what country is that? Sounds like a very controlled, restrictive environment.
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Do you mind not using multiline code block quotes that split sentences in half? Not only is it obnoxious to read on mobile, as horizontal scrolling is necessary, but it also fundamentally doesn't make sense as you should be able to copy/paste whole sentences. One might expect that as a recruiter/(ex-?)developer you'd realize how painful it is when you use this formatting.
Looks much better to me, including on mobile, and is the first complaint in the 2,020 days my account has been active here, whatever "one might expect". Additionally, it will look entirely natural to any of us who used email before it was mostly HTML.
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Well, let's explain the downvotes from 1 POV. The "copy/paste" comment just willfully misinterprets how StackOverflow is used. I think that we just don't believe you. Did you arrive at every job with perfect knowledge in the areas you'd be working on? Have you not had to learn anything on the job? If that's the case, then you're vastly overqualified. I feel like I'm being utilized as an employee the best when my mana…
I suspect you're right in many ways. I mention it as a copy/paste mechanism as I am surrounded by people who use it for that very purpose. I also did have the knowledge required for the job I applied for, and whilst I have learned a lot (off my own back) over the last 18+ years, very little of it is actually required, as demonstrated by those others who get given similar tasks that they can complete using Stack Overf…
There are good places out there, _even_ if they're low-skilled environment. I think it's totally a cultural attitude, to be willing to take the time to learn, and to have a good attitude and effort about it. You can copy/paste from SO and still be using it as a learning tool.
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'normal conditions' vary widely, normalisation to a lowest common denominator allows for easier comparison. The other extreme end is the young students assumption, "you don't need to know everything, just where you can find it", but the ammount of stuff I have to look up repeatedly increases exponentially with, eg, every wiki-page I read and that just takes too long to the point of impossibility.
For any software development position, normal working conditions probably includes an internet connection.
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It does add to the comment. It hopefully encourages people to actually read the article. People can not contribute to a discussion constructively if they do not read the subject of the discussion.
From the HN Guidelines: > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
This seems like a pretty popular take on the interview process here on HN. However, there's one pretty glaring flaw that I've never seen discussed: if the interviewee can take the problem home, what prevents them setting up a hackathon with their friends at their place, and making the interview problem a team effort? A couple of knowledgeable friends can do wonders, and if you also prep with them a little you can pro…
> if the interviewee can take the problem home, what prevents them setting up a hackathon with their friends at their place, and making the interview problem a team effort? Nothing, and that's fine. In fact we encourage candidates to use all resources on our take home interview test. I would probably be impressed if someone setup a hackathon to solve a rather simple take home problem. A take home problem is simply an…
This is one of those "aha" solutions that people keep mentioning, but completely ignore how it would work in a non-ideal world. • What 2 hour project can you assign that would let the candidate go into enough depth for you to judge their code, design decisions, architecture skills? • If you give them more time (e.g. a weekend like in the article), is it still financially viable to the company, especially at $100/hr??…
> What 2 hour project can you assign that would let the candidate go into enough depth for you to judge their code, design decisions, architecture skills? Write a program that reads a text file, and output each unique word with the number of times it appeared. The program must be done in a programming language among: C, C++, C#, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby.
print wordmap
This is on the level of a pretty simple first phone screen problem.