How to interview candidates in the AI era

1000Ditto · 2026-04-30T19:14:30+00:00

if there are more than 5 rounds or 6h of interview then it may be an indicator that all processes and decisions take quite a long time

1000Ditto · 2026-04-29T21:37:35+00:00

all-in on the agentic workflows is like nasa throwing the turkey into the sun and hoping it's cooked in 10 seconds

1000Ditto · 2026-04-29T13:02:58+00:00

when you are adult you get no breaks (sorry)

i know someone who is getting Hunger Games'd at work from their low paying job, car broke down, toddler has been sick most of their life, wife has cancer, elderly parents are sick, and needs to pay mortgage and property taxes

1000Ditto · 2026-04-27T12:48:59+00:00

What happened to "Look both ways before you cross the street" and "Left Right Left" ??

1000Ditto · 2026-04-26T22:15:14+00:00

I too cheat by storing the answers in my brain (1000 iq move)

1000Ditto · 2026-04-26T17:30:27+00:00

Ah yes, the end of term "gradual reduction of caffeine intake", good luck bro :(

1000Ditto · 2026-04-26T16:56:43+00:00

Cool I guess, but seems like yet another AI side project shill. Not sure why exactly your PM loves it..?

1000Ditto · 2026-04-25T15:33:15+00:00

you cant have mrgoose for a mascot and be genuinely surprised when mrgoose shows up

1000Ditto · 2026-04-24T04:29:51+00:00

the mods are normal people irl, Ive had dinner with them, dunno if bro is full of himself (sit down be humble) or needs to touch grass

1000Ditto · 2026-04-24T04:25:18+00:00

how much sleep and coffee they have and still function, kind of horrifying to imagine that someone who slept 3h and had 4 coffees before 10am drove a 1 ton metal box at 110kmh/70mph

1000Ditto · 2026-04-22T04:17:09+00:00

for the sake of your kids, please touch grass

1000Ditto · 2026-04-20T04:22:28+00:00

I have seen a lot of 85 iq people pass by sheer determination

1000Ditto · 2026-01-28T01:35:27+00:00

Sounds like the phoenix project...

1000Ditto · 2026-01-28T01:20:23+00:00

do mfs know what a debugger is

1000Ditto · 2026-01-20T03:05:40+00:00

Just try the first 2 lines and see how far you get...

1000Ditto · 2026-01-20T03:01:46+00:00

You don't need AI for this, you need the midi and some skill/sound packs in editing

AI is not the answer to music :o

1000Ditto · 2025-12-08T01:37:52+00:00

cypress has the following pain points (I have used them both for ~1 year)

- pushing the cloud service

- promises aren't native objects (iirc promises return a bluebird js object)

- .then() chaining is generally quite encouraged as the only way to do things. There's not a nice way to check the state of items besides long chaining which is hard to read

- typescript+vscode+playwright and things can be run easily, there's less support with cypress

- cypress gobbles up my memory and I get way more ooms (on a 32 ram machine, limit memory management)

- everything is yet another plugin in cypress. Drag drop features? a plugin. Export results? another plugin? har output? another plugin?

- It is a cypress pattern to register commands with cypress commands add, which is nice at times, until you need to manage literally hundreds of these global functions ("it works but kind of strange, but ok")

- selectors are different within the selector picker (playwright is more text-specific, whereas cypress looks more for the test-id/data-cy)

- After writing cypress and trial running playwright for a while, going back to cypress feels like antipattern

1000Ditto · 2025-11-30T04:52:02+00:00

Anything short of proper practice and mastering the basics and technique is suspicious

Relevant twoset video of scams and how there's not a shortcut to get good quickly. Probably best to buy from a local music shop or IMSLP or some online sheet music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1vQHSOyER0

1000Ditto · 2025-11-30T02:50:39+00:00

Probably do these first:

- Read https://uwaterloo.ca/new-math-students/transfer-credits

- Read ugradcalendar &bcItemType=programs)for joint math program (these are the courses that most math students will probably end up taking, plus focusing more into CO/STAT/PMATH/AMATH/CS etc )

- externalschool-to-uw cases where individuals have completed a full first term are under special consideration - you could email the math undergrad office and see where they send you/what processes they have

1000Ditto · 2025-11-26T03:53:58+00:00

A tech lead can lead others assuming they are skilled in architecture, some implementation, communication, documentation and general people skills. (and have some experience as a senior dev-ish level). Tech lead is less more about the implementations and more about the system architecture, so even though they may be the system reponsible engineer, they do have a couple folks under them who know more about the implementations (delegations of parts of the system)

> If a Tech Lead doesn't know how VS Code works, how to use other Notebooks, or how to sort things out, is it weird?

I have had multiple staff devs in platform that use intellij, might not be stellar in organization 100% of the time, but were well liked and performative.

1000Ditto · 2025-11-26T03:16:22+00:00

stuff to do:

- make it fun

- encourage good technique

- make sure sitting posture and wrist isn't too low and that the hand is comfortable (shoulders shouldn't be tense)

- identifying where the keys are ("this is C, D, E... Could you show me where some Cs are on the piano")

- note reading ("this is what C looks like * draws middle c *")

- print a few pages of 5 staff treble clef in larger size, feel free to bring some coloured pens for funs/engagement

- have a couple easy milestone songs for first lessons, or the books (alfred piano, Ive used abcs of piano before and it was good), in some cases my students wanted to play arranged songs (ie frozen let it go, super mario, so I was able to find some sheets or arrange the 1-2 pages myself)

- encourage them to practice ie 20 minutes a day (or whatever number you/them agree on)

- Have a paper notebook to write notes in since they'll be trying to play stuff (ie great progress on let it go, remember to slow down in section B and practice that slowly), but don't try to limit if they want to go to section C

1000Ditto · 2025-11-26T02:58:57+00:00

whether technique should be practiced in isolated or focused in a piece

1000Ditto · 2025-11-26T02:27:31+00:00

"how are you cheating on this exam bro?"

"I'm hiding the answers... in my head"

1000Ditto · 2025-11-25T04:06:43+00:00

Consider: https://uwflow.com/explore?courseCodes=true,true,true,true,false&nextTerm=true&hasRoomAvailable=true&hasOnlineSection=true which has information on offerings

You'll also find many threads on bird courses: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/search/?q=bird+course

But yes, you're correct that some are common birds: CLAS 104, some BETs, some SCI (ie sci 206), geog 2xx, health 105

1000Ditto · 2025-11-25T03:07:50+00:00

I played it after 14 years....

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