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b20000

2 года назадdiscuss

Yeah, I shouldn't have written that. The comment comes from a place of frustration with the interview process and my perceived cultural differences with how people who grew up in the US interview candidates and test whether they are a fraud or a bullshitter VS how people from other backgrounds interview. Too late to remove the comment now. My mistake.

b20000

2 года назадdiscuss

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b20000

2 года назадdiscuss

"Rejections usually aren't personalized because that can't scale"

that says it all.

b20000

2 года назадdiscuss

i applied several times and never got feedback which doesn’t help

b20000

3 года назадdiscuss

how about a low tech HN

get a mailbox people hand write letters to it

they get copied and redistributed

people can write to each other

or a paper version of HN printed like a newspaper

b20000

3 года назадdiscuss

pen and paper

b20000

4 года назадdiscuss

i don’t know what you are talking about. audio interfaces never went away. they became external due to USB and firewire. and creative stopped making them. pro audio companies primarily make and sell them now as they did back then. RME and MOTU are some examples.

b20000

4 года назадdiscuss

you can get a 4 year degree in europe for $500. but, you only have a 0.5% chance of getting through your first year. that is the flip side.

b20000

5 лет назадdiscuss

rent is nearly the same as the bay area

b20000

5 лет назадdiscuss

so is he paying CA salaries in TX?

b20000

5 лет назадdiscuss

zero fucks given

b20000

5 лет назадdiscuss

exactly, and that is the problem

b20000

5 лет назадdiscuss

in my 25 years of software development, 90% of the time, you don't need to optimize the code and the worst solution in time complexity is totally fine. then there is another 8% of situations where trading in space for time complexity is the solution, i.e. using lookup tables. the remaining 1-2% of the cases you might need a combination of some data structures or containers from the STL or boost (in the case of C++). I've never had to roll some special version of a data structure or container or algorithm myself from scratch, and I work on some really complicated real time software.

b20000

5 лет назадdiscuss

which is why leetcode makes no sense, as it focuses on premature optimization and writing the most advanced code possible which no freshman will be able to understand, at least not without dissecting it for a few hours first.

b20000

5 лет назадdiscuss

there is plenty of other software engineering work that is way more complicated than full stack web dev, and there are a lot of web devs.

b20000

6 лет назадdiscuss

negotiating top compensation and demanding respect for your work, and learning to say no.

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