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TypeScripting the technical interview

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Re: TypeScripting the technical interview

#61

Post by forgotusername6 »

ex3xu wrote: post #52

Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke: Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours: Never read Hacker News But Hacker News has read of you, in their snicker-slithing susurrential warrens, and word…

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Re: TypeScripting the technical interview

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Post by [deleted] »

forgotusername6 wrote: post #61
ex3xu wrote: post #52

Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke: Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours: Never read Hacker News But Hacker News has read of you, in their snicker-slithing susurrential warrens, and word…

The word "susurrential" returns only two Google results. One is for this post. Does anyone know what this word is supposed to mean?

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Re: TypeScripting the technical interview

#63

Post by antonyt »

forgotusername6 wrote: post #61
ex3xu wrote: post #52

Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke: Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours: Never read Hacker News But Hacker News has read of you, in their snicker-slithing susurrential warrens, and word…

The word "susurrential" returns only two Google results. One is for this post. Does anyone know what this word is supposed to mean?

Most likely a corruption of susurrant. From susurrus, meaning a murmuring or whispering sound.

Re: TypeScripting the technical interview

#64

Post by stevula »

forgotusername6 wrote: post #61
ex3xu wrote: post #52

Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke: Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours: Never read Hacker News But Hacker News has read of you, in their snicker-slithing susurrential warrens, and word…

The word "susurrential" returns only two Google results. One is for this post. Does anyone know what this word is supposed to mean?

susurrus or susurration is a very literary word for a whisper/whispering. The usual adjective would be susurrous or susurrant, rather than susurrential, but in any case it would mean “full of whispering sounds”.

Re: TypeScripting the technical interview

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Post by irrational »

lozenge wrote: post #43
irrational wrote: post #41

Is this really what technical interviews are like in Silicon Valley? I’ve never seen anything like it in the “real” world.

Only if you want to get hired.

I’ve been hiring developers for decades at a Fortune 100 company and have never engaged in such nonsense. Unless you are hiring people to program chess sets, the question in the article is foolish. If you want to test their problem solving or coding skills, give them a problem from the actual work they will be doing at your company.

Re: TypeScripting the technical interview

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forgotusername6 wrote: post #61
ex3xu wrote: post #52

Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke: Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours: Never read Hacker News But Hacker News has read of you, in their snicker-slithing susurrential warrens, and word…

The word "susurrential" returns only two Google results. One is for this post. Does anyone know what this word is supposed to mean?

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Re: TypeScripting the technical interview

#68

Post by irrational »

tantalor wrote: post #42
irrational wrote: post #41

Is this really what technical interviews are like in Silicon Valley? I’ve never seen anything like it in the “real” world.

Um, which part?

Asking about setting a Queen on a chess board. Unless I’m being hired at a company that programs chess sets, it is a nonsense question. If you want to test someone’s problem solving skills, test them with a problem that actually reflects the real work they will be doing at your company.

Re: TypeScripting the technical interview

#69

Post by tantalor »

irrational wrote: post #68
tantalor wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Um, which part?

Asking about setting a Queen on a chess board. Unless I’m being hired at a company that programs chess sets, it is a nonsense question. If you want to test someone’s problem solving skills, test them with a problem that actually reflects the real work they will be doing at your company.

> N-Queens is a classic backtracking problem that gets asked a lot during interviews.

https://fizzbuzzed.com/top-interview-questions-3/

Re: TypeScripting the technical interview

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Post by ex3xu »

stevula wrote: post #64
forgotusername6 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The word "susurrential" returns only two Google results. One is for this post. Does anyone know what this word is supposed to mean?

susurrus or susurration is a very literary word for a whisper/whispering. The usual adjective would be susurrous or susurrant, rather than susurrential, but in any case it would mean “full of whispering sounds”.

I think it's a portmanteau of susurrus and torrential, which serves to invoke the force and volume of a torrential downpour to the description.
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