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I once was interviewing for an internship at a quant firm in Chicago (I was in my Sophomore year I think at UIUC) and my interview went pretty well up to the point of my second-last interview of the day. Then, I sat down with the VP of engineering, and he opened the interview with "so, what do you think it is we do here?" And I naturally stuttered through a canned answer about how they use arbitrage opportunities in…
When I was 19 and naive, I was interviewed for a desperately-needed summer job selling dictionaries door-to-door. The head interviewer wore a three-piece suit, gold watch, and an expensive haircut. He told me that as a demonstration of my independence and maturity, he wanted a commitment from me right then and there that I would accept the job and sign all the paperwork if he made an offer. If I wanted to go home and…
That contract sounds illegal, but I suppose that's another reason to recruit teenagers who don't know about labor rights (tbf IANAL and I could be wrong).
They own all IP I create outside work hours, unrelated to the company. I need permission to work on my side business, which basically got me the job. That business has a community I've built over 5 years.
HR called me early morning, and three times without warning during office hours of my current job. Their first offer was about the same as my public sector position, where the salary is public.
I tried hard to resolve these problems with HR but most of the time I was just gaslit, as if the problems didn't exist. The hiring team and work seemed really great.
I was invited into an in-person interview in downtown San Francisco for a role on a digital marketing team at Adobe. I was interviewed one by one, by three potential colleagues (all women). One of them condescendingly asked me if I voted for Trump, simply because I am originally from a non-blue state. It was very strange, anti-toxic/toxic, and came out of nowhere. It made me consider secretly filming & voice recordin…
"anti-toxic/toxic" --> meant to say "anti-social/toxic"
In retrospect: hiring managers having Ayn Rand books at work.
I worked for a guy who had Atlas Shrugged on his bookshelf. I chuckled and thought okay. I later went on a business trip with him and found out that 1) he was left of center and 2) a prior CEO was very much a Randist and sent the book to every SVP and up in the company.
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Nvidia, like many other tech companies, has many people/teams/departments/division. Is very hard to get a clear view of the world from a single point. Who knows, maybe if you joined you would have hated it too, or loved it ! The story you shared is likely shared by many other companies that went through hyper-growth TLDR: Stuff is hard!
NVidia was truly a spectacular opportunity. So was Microsoft, Databricks, etc. I picked a dud, and didn't realize it until it was too late (just now). Question is .. what are the obvious winners today, and for the next 10 years? Some opportunities I missed but they didn't go anywhere: Docker, Qualcomm. Consumer Devices is a general dud I think. Software and data is where it is at. I dunno?
Answer: "Well, we just open the file on the server and Vim will tell you if someone else has it open too."
Nope, nope, nopity, NOPE.
I went through the full deal with an algorithmic trading firm. I blazed through the interviews and given the history I have in finance was able to finish a large on-site assignment with an hour to spare. I was told that I was the first to ever finish it. Second to last step was submitting an official college transcript as part of their background check process. Last step was talking to the CEO. Now, I flunked out of…
I don't understand why the way you cared manifested in that way My dad was overly sensitive about not having a degree too, I wonder if its a generational thing From what I can tell, this nonstandard question would have no bearing on the work experience and never come up again, but you are acting like it would
This is not one incident but it happens to many times — when the hiring manager or sometimes other interviewers as well start explaining how: - team/company works like a family - we even party together on weekends - then things like: we “love and own” our work we only leave once it’s done Or a place that’s not clear and don’t want to be specific about availability/timing requirements i.e clarity about hours (which is…
This is indeed a red flag. I usually (truthfully) tell applicants the opposite. That despite $company being a startup, founders and senior leadership are all grownups with families and as such we value a healthy work/life balance, don't have any pizza-coding in the evening going on and don't expect overtime.
I will take that any day over those trillion remote work only job boards.
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That's almost worth naming names, just to prevent anyone else from suffering a similar fate. Plus, I'm really curious who it was.
Ha! Sorry. This was decades ago, anyway. Right after the sort-of-botched IPO he drove off in his shiny new Ferrari never to be seen again (like, seriously, that exit is the last mention I can find of him online. He made out much better than the employees, I’ll tell you that much)
They always do.