I think this blog post was the best way to get into Anthropic, and it was well-deserved. That's the reality of hiring in tech: there are many non-technical people judging whether technical people are competent or not. Escaping that matrix through things like blog posts, cold emails, and Twitter threads can be great ways to break in and get noticed by these companies.
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#202I think this blog post was the best way to get into Anthropic, and it was well-deserved. That's the reality of hiring in tech: there are many non-technical people judging whether technical people are competent or not. Escaping that matrix through things like blog posts, cold emails, and Twitter threads can be great ways to break in and get noticed by these companies.
HR _hates_ hiring anyone, they just want H1-Bs.
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#203We should stop coding for free for billionaire organizations. The romantic era of Open Source is over.
The only projects with a permissive license, I am comfortable sending PRs nowadays are the kind of projects that will hardly enable a big monopolist to extract more rent from society while being covertly funded by the debasing of currency promoted by the FED via Cantillon Effect.
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#204Good findings, the rest not surprising tho.. online recruitment doesn't work at all these days. most likely your app wasn't read by anybody meaningful and did not trigger right flags in the HR system to even be spotted by clueless ladies working there. This post can give you some visibility unless somebody sees it as frustration/negativity then they won't bother either. aside of the core topic, best way to get a job…
I assume your choice to describe average HR reps as “clueless ladies” isn’t meant to suggest that you respect e.g. women software engineers on your team any less. But if the gender of the clueless HR employees isn’t relevant, why mention it? Maybe worth reflecting on whether calling them clueless ladies rhetorically emphasizes their cluelessness
After years hearing justly about bad things perpetrated by males as a class, without any concerns about generalizations, I think we are mature enough to also call for responsibility in the other side of the aisle.
Having a free pass for doing evil stuff is what gave man their bad rep, should we now for equity give women a pass to become the new slave lords?
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
The OP should have left off "ladies" as that was unnecessary -- clueless is a sufficient descriptor for many people in many roles (whether genuine behavior, strategic fiefdoming, or learned helplessness). Here is the US BLS breakout of demographics by occupation category: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
To save everyone the click: HR managers: 76% female, HR workers: 75% female, HR assistants: 84% female.
The distribution in other categories is fascinating, and HN doesn't format tables well.
Though "saving a click" typically refers to spammy clickbait news articles that bury the lede, which a statistical table directly relevant to the conversation does not qualify as.
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#206Just change the license. The company probably won't notice and keep pulling the new changes. Now you have a legal case.
Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
#207We should stop coding for free for billionaire organizations. The romantic era of Open Source is over. The only projects with a permissive license, I am comfortable sending PRs nowadays are the kind of projects that will hardly enable a big monopolist to extract more rent from society while being covertly funded by the debasing of currency promoted by the FED via Cantillon Effect.
People should have realized this long ago. They're working for free for mega corporations. I refuse to contribute to this.
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#208Hey, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for submitting this. If you have any questions feel free to ask and please let me know how the writing was. It's one of my first posts so I'd like to improve
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#209Just change the license. The company probably won't notice and keep pulling the new changes. Now you have a legal case.
> Just change the license. The company probably won't notice and keep pulling the new changes. Now you have a legal case.
I think the world already grew tired of rug pull tactics. If you want your reputation to go down the crapper with a lame attempt to shake down an end user, go right ahead.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
They could literally give him 100k, 1mil or even 10mil which would still be a rounding error in their books.
Are they even profitable?
Profitable schmofitable! But seriously, that is orthogonal to whether those figures are rounding errors at anthropic's financial level.