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Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by spoils19 »

Vendan wrote: post #120
lnxg33k1 wrote: post #94

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While one point of view is subjective, truth isn't, but I'll play the game and ask you if i and others news source are just having a collective visions https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+10+ads+start&t=fpas&ia=web

I also run windows 10 and have never seen a single ad, anywhere in it. Definitely worth noting that this is on a homebuilt computer, and I paid for a windows 10 pro license. Definitely seen ads on my wife's store-bought windows 10 home laptop.

While one point of view is subjective, truth isn't, but I'll play the game and ask you if i and others news source are just having a collective visions https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+10+ads+start&t=fpas&ia=web

Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by Osiris »

denysvitali wrote: post #6
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #3

I would add Am I allowed to have side projects that I own? Am I allowed to contribute to open source from work? ie bugfixes for libraries we use. How many meetings are there in an average month? Does your insurance cover my preferred doctors? (obviously more of an email question) How strict are the requirements in whatever tracking software we use (jira,rally, etc) How many required programs are there? Outlook? Slack…

My go-to question is: Am I able to use Linux? This tells you a lot about the company. I avoided some Windows-only jobs in the past :)

Is it common for jobs to restrict your choice in development environment? In 15 years I've never been required to use any particular operating system.

Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by Osiris »

tragictrash wrote: post #51
ygjb wrote: post #50

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Oh please. Tell me you are a Linux zealot without telling me you are a Linux zealot. Its a tool in the toolbox. I use Linux everyday on servers at work, two desktops at home, and servers for my partners businesses. My main personal notebook is a windows device w/WSL and my main work notebook is a MacOS device, because at the end of the day, I need my computer's to just work, painlessly. WSL is great for alot of Linux…

I think you misunderstood that remark intended to be humorous. Its too bad you took offense. Your right about it being a tool. A tool which has better alternatives. A virtual machine running in virtual box or some other vendor's VM has literally none of the limitations that wsl2 does. WSL 2 Doesn't fully support all userspace stuff, I bump into that all the time. You can ssh into other boxes using PowerShell. It is o…

"better"? Every tool has pros and cons and tradeoffs. I run Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Each one has it's pros and cons. Each is the "better" tool depending on the need.

The same goes for programming languages and engineering problems. I train my team to identify multiple possible solutions to a problem then identify pros and cons and then pick the solution that optimizes for the most important goal. There is rarely a "right" solution.

Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by Osiris »

tragictrash wrote: post #123
8note wrote: post #110

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X servers suck though. Vscode renders sharply without having to do extra work. Both wsls are reasonably enjoyable. Much better than ssh-ing to a Linux host

You realize your using an x server to do that, right? It's just one thats bundled in with windows, and you don't have to configure.

I thought vs code ran natively as a Windows app and just used a remote connection to wsl to do file management and run cli commands ?

I don't think vs code is running inside the wsl environment directly.

Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by Osiris »

tragictrash wrote: post #77
jbluepolarbear wrote: post #69

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Tell me you don’t use WSL without telling me you don’t use WSL. I use WSL everyday and it’s no different than using native Linux. What’s so terrible? It’s easy to setup and easy to add to windows terminal.

File system performance sucks. No fuse support. No direct hardware access. I've experienced stability issues with it. Don't get me started on the networking or custom init put in by Microsoft. Systemctl calls don't work. It is most definitely not just like regular Linux. I actually used it pretty extensively for years before I figured out it was causing more friction than it was worth. It's convenient, I'll give you…

What's the big deal if he likes it? It works for him. It's fine.

Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by tdeck »

Osiris wrote: post #132
denysvitali wrote: post #6

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My go-to question is: Am I able to use Linux? This tells you a lot about the company. I avoided some Windows-only jobs in the past :)

Is it common for jobs to restrict your choice in development environment? In 15 years I've never been required to use any particular operating system.

There are a lot of companies that are absolutely Windows only shops. There are also lots of tech companies where everyone gets a Macbook and that's what you use, although I suppose you could use Linux if you're able to hack up the dev enviroent to work yourself.

Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

kerneloftruth wrote: post #31
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #23

Out of the classical screwed up interview questions that people ask I think "where do you see yourself in 5 years" would be a pretty good one to hear the real answer to from your interviewer.

That's a good question to look for, as it indicates a really stupid and unimaginative interviewer. One should regard it as a possible symptom of a dull management staff. It's also a good one to turn around on the interviewer: "What have you been able to achieve here in the past 5 years?"

on the one hand, yes, but on the other I think that would be the one to get me thrown into the smart-ass pile, probably though I have an intrinsic smart-ass delivery so I have a hard time imagining asking that question and not offending whomever I asked.

Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by anontrot »

I got an interview scheduled with Meta/Facebook, for monday (14th Feb 2022). Their careers portal has a lot of sample leet codes, I'm not even able to do the level 1 puzzles. Sure going to bomb the interview with live codinng session! Sigh... this would have been a life changer for me

Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by utucuro »

user_named wrote: post #118
mabbo wrote: post #52

I recently did a round of interviews with a few companies, and I came up with a list of fun questions for the interviewer, mostly based on my own gripes with my then-employer or things other companies were doing that I didn't like. I caught everyone I asked these to off-guard. > "Every company gets criticized. What's a piece of criticism your company has received that you felt wasn't really accurate? What about the o…

What was the response rate? In my experience companies don't like "critical" questions like these. Not a culture fit.

It is bad to be a cultural fit in a company where critical thinking is discouraged.

Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer

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Post by hlbjhblbljib »

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #83
Buttons840 wrote: post #72

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> "What are the company's non-compete rules? If I wanted to make and sell an app in my spare time, is that allowed? What isn't allowed?" I would not be surprised at all if the people interviewing me gave a nice answer and then on day one I'm asked to sign a contract that doesn't match what they said. Ask if you can see the employment contract before accepting an offer.

Signing means accepting an offer. To sign, one needs to get a copy of a contract. So one always sees a contract before signing, no? Let’s look at it from a different angle. One does not file a resignation before receiving a countersigned copy from the company.

Some companies do things in stupid orders though. I recently got an offer that had a contract that said the whole deal was contingent on me passing vetting and reference checks. Inside the contract.

Like I was going to sign, give notice at my current job, and if they're not happy I simply don't have a job.

I nope'd out of that process. Their HR was a mess.

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