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Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

#91

I'm a Google employee. After looking at this demo I can tell you're spiritually a Googler in ways I can't quite articulate.

Well if people start using it and like it a lot, only for him to then suddenly delete the whole thing without warning... then he'd truly be a Googler.

;)

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

#92

> Unfortunately, they were not impressed and ultimately did not offer me the job :( Sorry to hear that. No recruiting process is perfect. They often get it wrong, as they clearly did here!

Sorry to be the devil's advocate (just call me Beelzebub ... sung like Queen [1])

There may be other factors. Hiring is complex. They could have judged tbis fairly and they may have had a better candidate. Having a project like this should probabilistically increase your chances.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ&pp=ygURYm9oZW1pYW4...

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

#94
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I interviewed a developer once who was super junior on paper but had a side project of a fully featured desktop anime episode to watch/watched tracker with lots of library feature features. Hire. Interviewed another Dev who made arcade sticks as a side project. Hired. You can't teach passion. Hire all that passionate people you can. Tech stacks are irrelevant compared to the love of building things.

Also a great filter from the other side. I was not hired once because I didn't have React experience, despite having years of both Vue and Angular and having led teams building non-trivial apps in both. IME focusing on such a minor detail like that means either a) you're going to be so pressured to get stuff out of the door they can't handle slightly lower productivity for a month while you learn the different syntax…

I actually quite like it when this happens from the candidate side of the table. I don't want to work anywhere that is so short term focused on "you need to have X years of experience with this exact language/framework or we won't even consider you." It saves us both a lot of time by realizing our values are clearly not aligned early on in the process.

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

#95
This made me smile :)

  if (looping.mode === "off") {
    // If you waited for a day, you deserve to see this workaround...
    // Since there is no way to not loop a gif using gifwrap,
    // let's just put a reeeeaaaaallly long delay after the last frame.
    return 8640000;
  }

Re: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator

#99

> Unfortunately, they were not impressed and ultimately did not offer me the job :( Sorry to hear that. No recruiting process is perfect. They often get it wrong, as they clearly did here!

They realized OP would put them all to shame.
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