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Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by ehsanu1 »

black_puppydog wrote: post #338
heleninboodler wrote: post #253

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This type of interviewing style is bullshit. It means the interviewer knows a better solution that is "clever" and expects you to either have the same cleverness epiphany on the spot or to have studied this question. Neither is actually very useful as a hiring criterion. Guy Steele gave an incredibly interesting guest talk[1] at google about four different ways to solve this exact problem, and the fact that it's an i…

Thanks for the link, that made for entertaining watching! Curious that he gave that talk about parallelism in the end of 2015, and talked about how we'll engineer more systems to enable parallelism. First question at the end was actually whether we can get this into existing languages because new languages are "notoriously hard to get accepted." I'm currently learning Rust and now I'm wondering how the iterator map()…

Not sure if there's anything in the standard library, but I recall this as the definitive library for data parallelism in Rust: https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by UncleMeat »

alexanderh wrote: post #243
jeroenhd wrote: post #121

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Everybody wins until the tax man comes knocking for all of the dollars owed, or when "Connor Tumbleson" gets flagged as a terrible employee when all those copy-pasted qualifications don't line up with reality and the work is mediocre. As reported elsewhere in these threads, the credentials and interview process are all worked out upfront, the interview no long becomes a valid test of qualifications for the position.…

>I'm not sure if these people are a small step up from the call center scammers because at least they deliver something or a small step down because they're supposedly capable enough to do better. This is what I don't understand.... They have the skills (supposedly).. I mean sure, if they are foreign developers they wont always be getting the best pay or opportunities in their own country... But I have never seen a s…

What do you think the likelihood that they have skills actually is? If this was just "I have poor english language skills" then they could at least point companies at their real portfolio of code. And somebody who has poor enough english skills that they need to hire a fake interviewee is not going to be able to write effective documentation or communicate with the contracting company when requirements change or need to be clarified.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by jodrellblank »

heleninboodler wrote: post #253
bqe wrote: post #160

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I remember being asked this during my interview at Google. It was the first time I heard it and I gave an answer that iterated over the list twice. The interviewer said that it wasn't good enough and I am only allowed to iterate over it once. He didn't let me write my O(2n) solution down so he returned a strong no as feedback.

This type of interviewing style is bullshit. It means the interviewer knows a better solution that is "clever" and expects you to either have the same cleverness epiphany on the spot or to have studied this question. Neither is actually very useful as a hiring criterion. Guy Steele gave an incredibly interesting guest talk[1] at google about four different ways to solve this exact problem, and the fact that it's an i…

Guy Steele's talk came up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30462835 with an APL solution of:

     +/((⌽⌈\⌽a)⌊⌈\a)-a
with comment that it could "be fully parallelizable and run fast on the GPU, as it's based on a couple scan (generalized prefix sum) operations". Some explanation in my reply there.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by throw1234651234 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #316
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #227

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BTW, why are you applying just for internships? I checked out your (non-forked) github repos and you're definitely better than I was as an intern. It's not senior engineer level, but you could definitely go for at least a junior eng position for sure. God knows we hire much worse junior FE engineers than that. Or are you interviewing for FAANG(-like) positions only? edit: small tip though, I would rename the App2.js…

> also: do not use regex for parsing XML HE COMES! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

Is it bad that I know at "SO: HE COMES!"?

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by blastwind »

blastwind wrote: post #125

Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site. This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two po…

Messages are only editable within 2 hrs so I write another message expressing my additional thoughts and thanks:

As important as having integrity is a community that prioritizes and fosters integrity. The HN community skipped the fostering part and went straight to giving me referrals and interviews. I'm grateful, and I'll carry on the spirit when I'm in the position to do so. The opportunities I've derived are nothing but amazing, but the most important thing I've learned is to internalize integrity as one of my greatest strengths: In the face of adversity and unfairness, I'll stand up for myself and others.

Also, thanks for those telling me internship finding is going to get better. I am not pessimistic about it at all, but I was trying to be funny by "impersonating" the previous top comment, it fits the theme. I find myself maniacally focused when practice algorithms, and I enjoy focusing.

This whole time of writing this I have that one scene from Scent of A Woman repeating in my head: "And I have seen boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn't nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit; there is no prosthetic for that."

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by mahathu »

>On September 14, 2022 I got an email from someone that reeked eerily of a scam, but it turned out to be quite real. The full text is below.

[...]

Am I just naive, or does the email that followed below not sound like a scam at all to anyone else? Getting this, my alarm bells would indeed go off, but more in the "this person is probably telling the truth, someone might be impersonating me" department, not in "this person is trying to scam me"

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by sph »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #316
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BTW, why are you applying just for internships? I checked out your (non-forked) github repos and you're definitely better than I was as an intern. It's not senior engineer level, but you could definitely go for at least a junior eng position for sure. God knows we hire much worse junior FE engineers than that. Or are you interviewing for FAANG(-like) positions only? edit: small tip though, I would rename the App2.js…

> also: do not use regex for parsing XML HE COMES! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

I always come back for "One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane"

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by mrspence »

Incredibly, I think a job posting with the same end goal has just been posted on Code Mentor, by a profile made only in June (2022). I could be wrong, but just in case - I took a screengrab to share with you all (find here: https://i.imgur.com/up7sMg3.png). In case I'm wrong, I've blocked out the profile in this screenshot - however if Connor wishes to investigate, I have saved more details.

Re: Someone is pretending to be me

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Post by breck »

blastwind wrote: post #125

Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site. This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two po…

drop me an email if you are still looking for an internship breck@pldb.com. we usually use the rainwater question for our interviews but will have to try something else since you already had it
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