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Ultimately, these events are entered either for the money or for the fame - the submitter finding a way to get a bit of both. Since Google didn't give out a large amount, they could rely mainly on fame, and that requires more than a post in a single reddit community (and a post removed by the moderators!).
Keep that in mind when asking developers to estimate how long it will take. Could be next month, could be tomorrow.
Unfortunately, the more of the later you have, the more people seem to get frustrated at the former.
It was a fun read, thank you! Your submission is the real-world example of "work smart, not hard"
Umm, yeah. But if I found this while doing background research on a job candidate I'd have to think twice about if this guy was really someone I wanted on my team... be careful what you brag about cheating on, lest you let people see the real you.
This has to be a record for the most number of times someone plugged their startup in an article supposedly having nothing to do with their startup.
Joking cynicism aside, I think it was well done. I read the post to the end even though they gave the answer up front (good practice despite what’s”growth hackers” will tell you) and their mentions of the company seem authentic (i.e. they don’t tell you what they do, just that it was his main focus and made some legitimizing progress).
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Umm, yeah. But if I found this while doing background research on a job candidate I'd have to think twice about if this guy was really someone I wanted on my team... be careful what you brag about cheating on, lest you let people see the real you.
What cheating? All he did was a really low-effort submission.
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Umm, yeah. But if I found this while doing background research on a job candidate I'd have to think twice about if this guy was really someone I wanted on my team... be careful what you brag about cheating on, lest you let people see the real you.
Not sure I would consider this cheating. At most if I was reviewing a resume from the person I'd think "coder reused old code, built on it to fulfill a new set of requirement. okay"
I'd call it more taking advantage of the situation (he did too), which I like in my sales colleagues, and less in my engineering colleagues.
I'd hire him for sales.
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Not sure I would consider this cheating. At most if I was reviewing a resume from the person I'd think "coder reused old code, built on it to fulfill a new set of requirement. okay"
He called it cheating, not me. I'd call it more taking advantage of the situation (he did too), which I like in my sales colleagues, and less in my engineering colleagues. I'd hire him for sales.
I wouldn't want that comment associated with my name.
Not to mention the endless amount of false expectations and customer complaints that causes, wasting engineers or devs & post-sales support staff endless hours dealing with the fallout. And nothing good happens to a company's culture when cheating in one area is fully embraced.
Keep it in mind for next hackathons!