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Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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Re: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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There's a lot of age discrimination in tech industry. But, for the record, progressive efforts in companies aren't about age discrimination (though I guess they might be abused for that at some places). I'm over 40, have been working since I was a teen, and I have understanding and empathy for things like preferred pronouns. Genuine appreciation for this can come from seeing how things were for people before we impro…
I know I'm being an asshole but that's quite thoughtful. Thanks.
> I'm over 40, have been working since I was a teen, and I have understanding and empathy for things like preferred pronouns. Genuine appreciation for this can come from seeing how things were for people before we improved awareness and sensitivity.
Same, actually. I made more of an effort two decades ago. My patience has been exhausted with the number of "victims" who prove to be cruelly antagonistic when you look under their sympathy narrative. In 20 years my good will has been twisted into: trust nobody, and if I'm feeling sorry for ___, it's a grift.
(As a minor case in point, look at the expectations surrounding charity these days. If you give anything at all, you're shamed and berated for not giving more. wtf?)
Israel's current antics are unsurprising; every subculture has quietly adopted the Nazi lebensraum playbook of crying oppression and attacking civilians to make gains for themselves. Tolerance and forgiveness is never advocated by progressives (feminists will, occasionally). "Lie, cheat, shame and kill/cancel" are their only moves.
It makes for a world that is crueler than it needs to be. You and I are just the cobblestones paving the road for someone else to advance their idea of progress. I don't consent to that.
Re: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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You really need two in physically different locations (ideally ASes) with some form of failover, assuming you want a reasonable guaranteed uptime
Does 99.995% [1] of hackernews sound reasonable enough to you? The reality is a lot of systems (especially simple ones) run perfectly fine on a single server with next to no downtime and all the additional redundancies we introduce also add additional points of failures and without the scale that makes these necessary you might actually end up reducing your availability. [1] https://hn.hund.io/
I can't see how hackernews is 99.995% if I get at least 30-40 "Can't serve your request" error pages a year.
Re: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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Re: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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That selects for people who aren’t holding productive jobs currently. It’s a reasonable filter for junior positions, but seems counterproductive if you’re looking to fill a position where experience would be valuable.
No, it selects for people who want the job.
i. e., people who don't have other good options. I don't know why you would want to select for that
Re: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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I doubt it? My willingness to practice leetcode isn't correlated with my interest in new work or the work any given job post describes. It's also not correlated with my willingness to invest time in exploring the position. 6 hours of leetcode practice teach me nothing about a position, the work it entails, the problems the company is grappling with, and the people I'd be in the trenches with. 6 hours in conversation…
> My willingness to practice leetcode isn't correlated with my interest in new work or the work any given job post describes. The job requires you to practice leetcode in order to get the job. If you don’t want to practice leetcode then you don’t want the job.
Since you're apparently here to play semantics games: if you aren't willing to pay your employer for the opportunity to solve their problems, you don't want the job.
Re: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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My favorite interview experience was a short take-home that required me to write a toy version of something the company actually did on a day-to-day basis, followed by an in-person pairing session to extend that toy to handle more functionality and cover certain edge cases. Of course, the downside is that it required me to spend four hours working on this at home, and then another several hours at the interview - but…
What hourly rate did you charge? I have bills, and free labor doesn't pay them. If an employer spends 1-2 hours talking tech, the role, experience, culture fit, and maybe a quick "yes, I can code" toy PoC -- fine, I'll volunteer. But if one interview process requires a day+ of investment...I'll pass, thanks. Ditto for whiteboard hazing rituals, whose prerequisites include memorizing algo' arcana and cute puzzles. I h…
I mean, sure, that's fine. But if you discount the take-home portion - four hours - everything else would still have taken time, because I had to spend time on the phone with HR for the initial screen, and I had to go in for an interview afterwards anyway, and ain't nobody going to pay you for the privilege of interviewing. And if I'm going to spend time displaying my abilities, doing it quietly at home on my own time is vastly better than in a shitty meeting room with two people breathing down my fucking neck.
Do take-homes suck, and unfairly privilege people with more free time? Yes. Are they slightly better than the other asinine bullshit interviewers love to throw at candidates? Fucking absolutely.
Re: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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> The daycare center aesthetic and all this weird pronoun crap achieves the same ends. If everyone around you is an androgynous alien speaking a novel language and communications mishaps will get you fired, you won't feel comfortable working there. I'd argue that if you can remember people's names, you can remember their preferred pronouns - and that if you can't, or refuse to because you think it's "weird crap", the…
I'm terrible with names, but that's my own problem. I don't do voicemail or pronouns either. The rest of it is being ostracized for refusing to acknowledge the black floor tiles are lava. Redefining the reality of others is literal brainwashing. In fostering this sort of environment you're running a cult, not a company.
Sorry, who doesn't do pronouns?
Re: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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I'm terrible with names, but that's my own problem. I don't do voicemail or pronouns either. The rest of it is being ostracized for refusing to acknowledge the black floor tiles are lava. Redefining the reality of others is literal brainwashing. In fostering this sort of environment you're running a cult, not a company.
> I don't do voicemail or pronouns either. You don’t use any pronouns?
She says she doesn't, but I is clearly a pronoun.
Re: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
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> was willing to submit to it for the approval of this company I abstain, myself. I have too much real work that I'd like to push forward to be able justify spending weeks of free time on fake work.
Great! Isn’t that the point? That some people who really don’t want the job won’t invest a bit of their time and people who do really want the job will?
> Isn’t that the point? That some people who really don’t want the job won’t invest a bit of their time and people who do really want the job will?
Would you rather have an employee who wants the job, or an employee who is good at the job?