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You think too much of HN.
People think too much of it but also, somehow, far too little at the same time.
Agree. Tough crowd overall. And tougher comment section.
Flunking my Anthropic interview again
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Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again
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On one hand I agree with you, but on the other... I don't really want to live in a world where being oneself (a perfectly fine, good self) is a liability. I know I have privilege in being able to say this, but I'd rather get rejected by potential employers who don't get me, than have to pretend to be someone I'm not.
Being oneself is fine. Being too online may not be.
The phrase “too online” has a connotation that situates it in the 2020s or at worst the late 2010s to an extent that I don’t think really fits a degree of “online” you could have been literally before the invention of the Web.
Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again
#253One great piece of advice an informal mentor gave me long ago is that there is no information in a rejection . That is to say that you cannot draw any conclusions about yourself or your interviewing technique or your skills or anything from the single accept==0 bit that you typically get back. There are so many reasons that a candidate might get rejected that have nothing to do with one's individual performance in th…
I can say that in some of the rejections that I got, it was quite personal. I was old (55, at the time), and that seemed to actually upset the interviewers. I had all the right buzzwords, but as soon as they saw my grey coiffure, the process started going sideways. Somehow, they seemed to think that a 30-year-old could have 30 years of experience. I was treated pretty shabbily, a couple of times. It was clear that I…
I don't know about you but the older I get, the less I take anything in life personal.
I've come to realize that there are so many aspects of life that are not under one's control and shaking your fist gravity doesn't accomplish anything; even more so when it comes to business and professional relationships.
One of my favorite quotes is from "Deuteronomy 18:13", or as the The Coen Brothers aptly put it:
- "Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you"
Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again
#254One great piece of advice an informal mentor gave me long ago is that there is no information in a rejection . That is to say that you cannot draw any conclusions about yourself or your interviewing technique or your skills or anything from the single accept==0 bit that you typically get back. There are so many reasons that a candidate might get rejected that have nothing to do with one's individual performance in th…
> One of the biggest misconceptions I see from job seekers, especially younger ones, is to equate a job interview to a test at school, assuming that there is some objective bar and if you pass it then you must be hired. It's simply not true. Frequently more than one good applicant applies for a single open role, and the hiring team has to choose among them. In that case, you could "pass" and still not get the job and the only reason is that the hiring team liked someone else better.
This hasn't been true for the interviews I've given. For technical interviews I was given a question and rubrik of what they should say and a clear guide on how to grade them and give feed back about performance. Unless they did something truly bizarre there wasn't room for being subjective
Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again
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This is the age of social media. This person has hit the front page of HN twice now. That's a commercially valuable skill. At this point, having proved that can do something commercially valuable a couple times now, I think they should run with it. Start a YouTube channel. Keep racking up views. Then, eventually, do partnerships and sponsorships, in addition to collecting AdSense money. If you like to write or perfor…
You think too much of HN.
I had a post here sit at #1 once for a day, I had 200k views from it. I think an ad would have been $2k? Not to bad I think
Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again
#256One great piece of advice an informal mentor gave me long ago is that there is no information in a rejection . That is to say that you cannot draw any conclusions about yourself or your interviewing technique or your skills or anything from the single accept==0 bit that you typically get back. There are so many reasons that a candidate might get rejected that have nothing to do with one's individual performance in th…
I can say that in some of the rejections that I got, it was quite personal. I was old (55, at the time), and that seemed to actually upset the interviewers. I had all the right buzzwords, but as soon as they saw my grey coiffure, the process started going sideways. Somehow, they seemed to think that a 30-year-old could have 30 years of experience. I was treated pretty shabbily, a couple of times. It was clear that I…
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Doesn’t matter. Simply defending against the claim costs significant money, and you can’t recover those costs. Best to avoid the claim altogether.
Still dubious. I don't think miniscule risk justifies shitty behavior and making life worse for everyone.
I feel you, but there is a big difference between (a) "justification" in the overall cost versus benefit to all parties involved and (b) the narrowly self-interested thing to do.
Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can say that in some of the rejections that I got, it was quite personal. I was old (55, at the time), and that seemed to actually upset the interviewers. I had all the right buzzwords, but as soon as they saw my grey coiffure, the process started going sideways. Somehow, they seemed to think that a 30-year-old could have 30 years of experience. I was treated pretty shabbily, a couple of times. It was clear that I…
I don't know about you but the older I get, the less I take anything in life personal. I've come to realize that there are so many aspects of life that are not under one's control and shaking your fist gravity doesn't accomplish anything; even more so when it comes to business and professional relationships. One of my favorite quotes is from "Deuteronomy 18:13", or as the The Coen Brothers aptly put it: - "Receive wi…
Not that I’m religious but I looked up that verse and don’t see how the Coen Brothers got that message from it.
Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can say that in some of the rejections that I got, it was quite personal. I was old (55, at the time), and that seemed to actually upset the interviewers. I had all the right buzzwords, but as soon as they saw my grey coiffure, the process started going sideways. Somehow, they seemed to think that a 30-year-old could have 30 years of experience. I was treated pretty shabbily, a couple of times. It was clear that I…
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Yeah, probably.
Cheers.
Have a great day!
Re: Flunking my Anthropic interview again
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I'm not convinced they'd prevail in court. Seems like one of those truthisms about American litigiousness that wouldn't bear out in practice.
Doesn’t matter. Simply defending against the claim costs significant money, and you can’t recover those costs. Best to avoid the claim altogether.
Filing such a claim costs money too, and any decent lawyer will tell the claimant that he has no case.