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I'm sorry, but that doesn't sound like an absolute Chad. That, sir, is a Giga Senior Alpha Chadus Maximus.
LOL! My knee jerk reaction was going to be "dude, it's sarcasm". But you are way ahead of me :)
I have had my fair share of terrible interview as well. The key thing I learnt is that the interview is an opportunity for me to understand the culture of the company and judge my fit there as well. I know that the phrase "dodge a bullet" is used to death in those kind of situation, but if the interviewer is behaving unprofessionally you can safely assume the people in the company will be unprofessional in a lot more…
I'd rather work at a company where the interviewer smokes a cigarette in the conference room than one where they give off rigidly hierarchical "nobody has any agency" vibes. Sure we might go bankrupt but I'll have to put up with a whole lot less dumb "we don't pay you to think" bullshit and morale will be way higher the whole way there.
Name and shame company: Canonical They make us write essays and life stories and reject in 24hrs. Felt the exact same frustration.
Second this. Canonical is currently winning the race to the bottom for tech interviews (I'm speaking with a couple of decades of experience on both sides of the table). They use lots of AI on their side (of course, none allowed on your side). A strange focus on your school years. Dark patterns in technical questions with no opportunity to get clarity. Ghosting afterwards. Interviews always involve some asymmetry but…
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It's also pretty sad that now "ML engineer" means prompting...
On the one hand I understand this fairly deeply. I started doing "ML" ~ 20 years ago building classifiers people would laugh at today and even at the time barely impressed people when they were 95% correct. I moved into NLP and built NERs that missed 2-10% of named entities per document routinely. Best of breed approaches and models rarely fared better. Learned the cornerstones in school for ML; linear regression, AN…
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"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping."
Dude, we got this gig from the app Turtle Flipper .
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> They specifically asked personal questions - parents stuff, relationship, etc. In the US any employer who asks you about personal relationships during an interview is opening themselves up to an illegal discrimination lawsuit.
Which protected characteristic does "personal relationships" fall under? It's vague enough to mean almost anything you want it to be, and I struggle to imagine any sort of successful prosecution.
This… was a mistake on both you and the interviewer. All interview questions - unless it’s impossible to twist your answer to fit this - is scoped to “… at work”. Nobody who asks “tell me about yourself” is asking you to talk about how you met your partner, how many cats you have, or that experience you had, that one time, at band camp. It would be redundant and awkward to literally say “… at work” at the end of ever…
> It would be redundant and awkward to literally say “… at work” at the end of every question. It’s totally 100% the intent of the interviewer. you are stating your opinion as fact, and I don't think there is a basis beyond your opinion, you simply don't know. I agree with you the interviewee could have handled the questions better to not be so revealing about himself, setting boundaries the interviewer was crossing,…
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Keeping in mind the context of the original parent comment, yes it is 100% standard to ask about the "hardest day of your [working] life." I wouldn't ever put it like that, but asking about difficult challenges and how you overcame them is completely normal. The blog post reads to me as someone who is oblivious about the subtext of these questions. When I ask that kind of question, I'm not asking you to share about a…
> yes it is 100% standard to ask about the "hardest day of your [working] life." The comment I was responding to was saying that the question was about your non-working life, and that it’s normal to do so. You’re trying to argue something else. I’m only saying that interviews questions about your personal life are out of scope. It is 100% not standard to ask questions about someone’s personal life.