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ah yes, hackclub, the club where I offered to provide personal mentorship in Harvard CS50 and they rejected it.

don't interview with them, I had an onsite a few years ago with them and they cancelled it after I booked the hotel room and refused to reimburse me, what a joke of a company.

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I decided not to move forward with Cortx because Alex was late for a call and gave me some bs about it.

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Interview with Sandra (Sandra Robles <[email protected]>) was a joke, she didn't know I was a triplebyte candidate and the languages I was familiar with were Python and JavaScript even though she said she read my resume then said that I wasn't a fit since coinbase is a very mission driven company and I don't seem to be exhibiting that. The other thing that was odd that she took down the posting for the data role during my call since 2 people were in the pipeline for onsites. She also said she could recommend me for backend as they were heavily hiring but later decided not to. This isn't so much a problem with coinbase as it is with the very common problem of recruiters not being able to identify talent well even though the engineering managers and engineers can.

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when posting please answer these questions:

    * Is this a full-time position, if not, what type of position is it?
    * What technologies/languages would I be using during the role?
    * What would my average day look like?
    * What is the vision for the company/role over the next year?
    * What will the technical/onsite interviews consist of and how long will it be?
    * What is the timeline for this role and what are the stages from the current to the offer?
    * How long will I get to decide on an offer?
    * Do you offer reimbursement for travel and food expenses during the onsite process? How will I be reimbursed?
    * What is the start date of the position?
    * Who is your competition?
    * What is the compensation range (broken down by category such as equity, salary, signon bonus, etc)?

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had a datetime, confirmed the day prior, to speak with Ian. He didnt send a hangout link even though I requested it the day prior to our time tp speak. I requested a hangout link right before the agreed time, didnt get it. He wrote that his schedule was messed up and needed to reschedule to 1 week later. I asked him to answer the following questions in the meantime:

    * Is this a full-time position, if not, what type of position is it?
    * What position(s)/team(s) am I being considered for?
    * What technologies/languages would I be using during the role?
    * What would my average day look like?
    * What is the vision for the company/role over the next year?
    * What will the technical/onsite interviews consist of and how long will it be?
    * What is the timeline for this role and what are the stages from the current to the offer?
    * How long will I get to decide on an offer?
    * Do you offer reimbursement for travel and food expenses during the onsite process? How will I be reimbursed?
    * What is the start date of the position?
    * Who is your competition?
    * What is the compensation range (broken down by category such as equity, salary, signon bonus, etc)?

Here was Ian's response: "If you don't think you can commit to a phone call before getting answers to these questions, then that is probably a sign that this is not a great fit for either of us. Let's just save us both the time and move on."

Very ironic Ian, especially since I wanted to do both the senior software engineering and data scientists roles due to my relevant background.

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web: $130k-$150k salary Deep Learning Computer Vision: $130k-$170k(PhD).

kinda funny they are claiming to pay the web people nearly the same salary as the PhD level ML people.

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awesome, right on!!!

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1.) its the usual euphemism used to make you feel bad for the company's fuck ups, it goes along with "not enough experience". If your company is focused on years of experience, instead of skills/talent/potential, your setting yourself up for disaster. Those companies don't become the google's of the world because of their shortsightedness and inability to plan properly for the future by treating their employee's well. 2.) Some questions are valid such as tell me a time when you weren't able to deliver to the customer (Amazon), others are BS such as "why do you want to work here," (the proper response is, it doesn't matter now since I don't want to anymore). 3.) Many are evaluating you on valid HR nightmares such as inability to filter out your personal life from the business life but many I've seen are just seeing if your going to try to move up faster in the corporate ladder compared to them. B managers hire C teams, A managers hire A+ teams.

Ironically many people doing the interviews don't like the competition, so they don't pass the candidate, who can call them out on it? Nobody really.

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