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Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by mystraline »

aidenn0 wrote: post #301
mystraline wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Some people want others to freely use their software and choose MIT precisely because it's more free than GPL. MIT license is absolutely not 'more free' than the GPL. In fact, MIT means you give up effective ownership and control. You lose control and contributions. And what do you get for that loss of control? Exposure. Or, in this and many other cases similar, you get diddly shit. Some company paracitizes your co…

> And until I'm independently wealthy, I too will license AGPL. If you're making money on my stuff, I want a cut. Simple as that. A. So much for "Not everybody has to be chasing money..." as missing the point B. What hubris to claim that just because you wrote something it is now "yours" in any meaningful way. The copyright lobby has infected everywhere.

So, what is your net-worth, in that you fight for freebies to corporations? What net worth should I strive towards so I can be nonchalant and passe about money?

I'm certainly not there.

Also more curious, is the AGPL doesn't affect humans doing stuff. It affects companies when they grab, modify, and host and not share contributions. Read about anti-TIVOization. That's why the AGPL. I'm guessing you know this, and why you're attacking my viewpoints as 'missing the point'.

And yes, copyright is everywhere. And the GPL has some of the sanest terms to reuse, as long as you follow the requirement. And the GPL also further grows the ecosystem, due to virality.

But Anthropic wasn't exactly submitting code either, were they? In my world, parasites get antiparasitic drugs.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by ako »

zdragnar wrote: post #296
bootsmann wrote: post #57

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Tbf, I'd rather get a "we didn't review your CV" response than a template "we are continuing with other candidates :)" response. It softens the blow considerably and helps me as an applicant better keep track on which variation of the CV is working best because I can just remove this datapoint.

Unfortunately, "we didn't review your CV" is a great way to get sued in the US if the name of the applicant is in any way potentially indicative of the applicant's gender, race, religion, or any other protected status.

And we now see a lot of proof that that is warranted: lots of people in the US are now openly racist and/or have other prejudices. It is fair to assume many people don’t get a fair chance because of this.

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #235
cnst wrote: post #232

> Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo. I wrote a cover letter and sent out my application. An automatic reply informed me that they might take some time to respond and that they only notify applicants if they made it to the next round. After a few weeks without an answer, I had assumed they…

>The only exception has been JaneStreet Huh. I guess if you decide to make OCaml your company's primary programming language, you have to take what you can when it comes to devs.

Not accurate. They pay very well, and their interview process is supposedly quite challenging.

A thing to consider, though, is ethical: they seem to have been involved in market manipulation. [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0zgrevl1o

Re: I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

lan321 wrote: post #141
SJC_Hacker wrote: post #108

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Yeah, no. You have to pass tech interviews and generally know your shit

Not too often tbh. You either get dogshit LeetCode or, more often, just a general chat about what you've done and know. There, social skills play a massive role. Make simple projects sound like state-of-the-art, present everything cool that happened as something you were directly involved in, present the 2 most obscure bugs in the project as something you fixed every other Tuesday when you get bored...

Social skills are not a substitute for technical skills, but they are still important. You have to work with people.

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Post by senko »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #278
senko wrote: post #64

The author should have just asked the friend of a friend for a warm intro instead of trying to go through the main gate. Sucks, but that's the reality of hiring (and getting hired) in tech in general.

My experience with Anthropic and OpenAI is they’re not super interested in experience and don’t take internal references very seriously. Most of who I know that was hired were fairly junior folks and they have an early weed out that’s a fairly rudimentary but very specific Python programming quiz typically administered by very junior (like 1-2 years out of school) - even when interviewing extremely senior and experie…

Yikes this sounds awful.

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Post by 1attice »

lawlessone wrote: post #307
zdragnar wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, "we didn't review your CV" is a great way to get sued in the US if the name of the applicant is in any way potentially indicative of the applicant's gender, race, religion, or any other protected status.

I remember applying for a German company for something and they wanted me to submit a professional photo. For an IT role...

For good or ill -- probably the latter -- headshots are expected with CVs in most of Europe. It's a local custom.

Source: I worked in Germany and had to deal with this. (In fact, one of the ways I made my application stand out from other North Americans was to learn this ahead of time and include a headshot in my original application)

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Post by robpanico333 »

null_deref wrote: post #109
siva7 wrote: post #47

There is some dirty secret i learned in my time as a eng. manager: Working in open source / Being the maintainer of a popular library / Blogging about software: All this things won't give you necessarily a competitive edge but can work against you. It's counterintuitive but sometimes teams are looking for a more low-profile hire.

I agree with the other comments on this thread, but I have a question of my own, why not work as consultant at that point and not as team member?

That's often works and is a good idea, in my personal experience. It would be so much better, however, if we had a functional and affordable health care system for independent consultants. Consultants working from outside the US may actually have an advantage in this regard, depending on where they are exactly.

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Post by brabel »

ironman1478 wrote: post #262

I don't know if this is a good opinion, but I don't think it's a good idea for independent individuals to use highly permissive licenses on their open source software. Companies will just suck it up and might not contribute back. It distorts the market because if the software didn't exist, they'd have to hire people, contract it out, etc. somebody would get paid. you've saved a huge company from having to hire people…

Excellent point. If you really want to make your project open out of the goodness of your heart, then use GPL. Otherwise you are explicitly giving any business, no matter how big or wealthy, permission to use it with no expectation of giving anything back. The license says that quite clearly. It says nothing about rewarding the author.

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