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Exactly, I guess that's because HN has quite software-heavy crowd. Most of them like to see software changing the world.
No, most of them want to make a ton of money. They're hanging out virtue signaling their cleverness on a forum owned by a Silicon Valley startup incubator for a reason.
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> Don't hold on to your winners for too long, the stock price is not entirely a function of the company's financial success In the long term you don’t think the stock price is a function of a company’s success? Surely while a a company does very well financially and the financial outlook is very good, the stock price would be higher than when the fortunes change?
Sure, but there is no guarantee long term stock price is above what you paid for it. Also, the market can be unreasonable, in both directions, for quite a while. Dividends are what you epupd be looking for in long term stock investments.
That’s because there’s no guarantee the company will thrive in the long term, nor that you didn’t overpay to begin with. That does not change the fact that share price is a function of the business’ financial success.
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You're close. Asml doesn't test on one machine only.
Why do you need machines for unit test? Unit test just test code logic.
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I've lived in NL for a while, few years, changed few companies, it's a place where processes are more important than actual code quality, where people stay in the same job for 10-15 years and everything below that is seen as a bad thing, people is hired for the culture primarily, having awareness of software principles is really worthless. I ran away as the last company I interviewed with, after solving a coding puzz…
I'm going to defend this method of hiring a little bit. To me, having at least a bachelor of IT already proves you have software engineering skills. The coding tests are just a quick check if you haven't lied or anything. The first month is trial basis anyway (both ways) so if the candidate is not on-par technically it's a quick goodbye. I don't care about parties either but if I'm going to have to work with you I ne…
Lets assume we are talking about a reasonable candidate with good social skills, and a higher-than-average tech skills (that would be a charitable interpretation of the original comment).
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Sure, but there is no guarantee long term stock price is above what you paid for it. Also, the market can be unreasonable, in both directions, for quite a while. Dividends are what you epupd be looking for in long term stock investments.
> but there is no guarantee long term stock price is above what you paid for it That’s because there’s no guarantee the company will thrive in the long term, nor that you didn’t overpay to begin with. That does not change the fact that share price is a function of the business’ financial success.
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I'm a hiring manager in the Netherlands. I would be happy that you ran away, because you would not have passed the bar. The hiring process I like to have in place is: 1. HR Interview: see if there is a fit with the company 2. Skill check. Do you have the problem solving, hard skills and communication skills needed for the job. 3. Team fit. Do you like to drink a beer (or non alcoholic) with us and we with you. Can yo…
> Do you like to drink a beer (or non alcoholic) with us and we with you. Why is that relevant for work? Are you looking for labor, or for a date/drinking buddy? Social and communication skills are important but I can be professionally communicative for work ralted topics, and still not want to have a beer with you after work, because it's my free time and I have other interests than you and other things to do. Unles…
I'm not suggesting should offer your free time to help cultivate this, but in my experience it does help with building a good work relationship with your colleagues - either outside of work or even at lunch - which then improves the outcome of the labor.