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- You never know how it's going to be judged (style, efficiency, error handling, abstraction, thread-safety, type-safety, commenting, etc).
- You're given a very short time-limit, but well-designed, maintainable software is almost never written like that.
- etc., etc.
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That is totally possible, but I recognize this as an interrogation tactic. Your resume is a showcase of your best accomplishments. Short of clearance-level interviews with your family and friends, people in C-level positions ask for transcripts from 20 years ago because it's the only intelligence concerning your failures they can get their hands on (your previous employers won't ever attest on-record that you sucked)…
I like to assume that people have the best (if sometimes misguided) intentions, and I have an alternate theory. This firm clearly put a huge amount of stock in education. They were 4 blocks from a major CS university, and a significant number of staff were recent grads. I suspect the CEO had a masters which only adds credence to their belief in the education system. On top of that, they knew how much I was making ($x…
Canonical. Their desktop experience had already lost its shine (and, effing snaps), but I made the mistake of believing that they might be cool anyway, without doing my research. Intelligence test? Story about high school? Reflex test? The actual red flag for me was their final admission that they require an unpaid internship in the form of "community participation." https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/tkc348/my_…
Debian has already largely caught up with Canonical. Their peak desktop experience is imho 16.04. Unless you need to update every half year, Debian is almost same as LTS Ubuntu, but no snaps.
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Are shorting and longing symmetric? IE, do they influence the market in the same way? They seem much more complicated than straightforward stock purchase and fractional ownership.
In the generic case: Longing == buying a share Shorting == selling a share
I can't remember if it was through a third-party recruiter or direct to the company, but I was fairly desperate for a sysadmin job, and I might have been out on the streets already at that point. I strolled on down to see this place, which was nestled behind a Motel 6 and a future mental health clinic; charming neighborhood.
I met the HM and I swear to god that he was a dead ringer for an old boss I'd had years ago. Once I got over that shock, we had a little chat, and along the way of course, he said "you know that we're the biggest service provider to the pornography industry?" and I said "yeah" and he said "you don't have a problem with that?" "nah... [I NEED THIS JOB NOW]"
I didn't get the job of course, but I really dodged a bullet, and definitely did not need something like that in my past or on my résumé.
Back in 2014, I was an intern at a major tech company doing software testing for $13.25/hr. I was about to finish my CS degree and my internship was ending, so I was applying for software engineering jobs. During a phone screen at one company, they asked my salary expectations, and I said $60K. They asked what I was currently making, and I (naively) answered the $13.25/hr. They said they could do $16/hr, and that I s…
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…
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…