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Re: My Startup Job Interview

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Post by sgustard »

hackinthebochs wrote: post #75
bliti wrote: post #2

A guy in a shirt, a guy in a polo, and an Asian lady. Why not a lady? Not calling you racist, but it is interesting how the race of non-whites seems to be included in some manner like it is always relevant. Why not mention the race of the two other people? Is it less relevant? You only mention the lady once. What role did she play in the situation? Just curious.

That actually stood out to me as well, but I disagree with the others that the detail was meaningless. Of course, the detail we choose to convey has very specific meaning, sometimes unintentionally. The point of "asian lady" does paint a specific picture, but to me it conjures an image of an older, motherly/grandmotherly image (no one refers to a woman in their age/social/cultural group as 'lady' these days). The poi…

There's not a good term for a female peer. Lady or woman tend to imply someone older. Girl or gal are insulting. What's the equivalent for "guy" that means "just this female dude, you know?"

Re: My Startup Job Interview

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Post by Apocryphon »

mason55 wrote: post #92
girvo wrote: post #81

I know this is satire... But quite literally, at a place I worked at (for two months, I quit) they actually did push code that wrote in the second interview to production.

I was at a talk last week where pushing interview code to production was highlighted as a good lean practice and recruiting tool Someone in the audience asked if they made the interviewees sign anything since the company was using their unpaid labor and the guy giving the talk was seriously dumbfounded as if the idea had literally never even occurred to him.

Sounds like they don't even need to recruit anyone, just continuously hold interviews.

Re: My Startup Job Interview

#103

Post by idProQuo »

mathattack wrote: post #59
soneca wrote: post #54

This is the first post of their "saga": http://blog.galler.io/startup-dialog Maybe it will help everybody understand that this is a satire...

Ahh... The rabbit hole question seemed like a hint too, but this confirms it. Unfortunately this means that the Enders Game line wasn't said in reality. Though perhaps in the future it will be.

Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that. James McNeill Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will.

Re: My Startup Job Interview

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Post by at-fates-hands »

bookface wrote: post #52

Every "bad interview" story that graces the front page of HN has this common theme that the interviewee is an infallible genius who aces every question. I know there's a bias here (better engineers are probably more likely to blog in the first place and most people would rather write about an experience where they're the "victor"), but it would be nice to read an article from someone acknowledging their own failure j…

When I read stories like these, I don' think of it in terms of the interviewee being a genius and "above" the silly questions they ask them. For me, it's a look inside a company who doesn't have their shit together and doesn't know how to properly interview candidates for the position they're hiring.

Re: My Startup Job Interview

#105

Post by at-fates-hands »

corobo wrote: post #31

This is one of those blogs that needs an RSS feed or email subscription. I'm interested in reading more from it, however will have forgotten the domain by the end of the day

One of the reasons HN needs a search function for stories. Don't know how many times I remember a cool story a co-worker would want to read and can't find it for the life of me - even after trying to wrestle the story out of Google.

Also, if there is some decent way to search the links or stories which I don't know of, by all means, tell me.

Re: My Startup Job Interview

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Post by sgustard »

bookface wrote: post #52

Every "bad interview" story that graces the front page of HN has this common theme that the interviewee is an infallible genius who aces every question. I know there's a bias here (better engineers are probably more likely to blog in the first place and most people would rather write about an experience where they're the "victor"), but it would be nice to read an article from someone acknowledging their own failure j…

See the story of the person who broke down crying at an interview, from last week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6389293

Re: My Startup Job Interview

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Post by unimpressive »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #105
corobo wrote: post #31

This is one of those blogs that needs an RSS feed or email subscription. I'm interested in reading more from it, however will have forgotten the domain by the end of the day

One of the reasons HN needs a search function for stories. Don't know how many times I remember a cool story a co-worker would want to read and can't find it for the life of me - even after trying to wrestle the story out of Google. Also, if there is some decent way to search the links or stories which I don't know of, by all means, tell me.

https://www.hnsearch.com/
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