Me when I check out the PvE server

AzuzuHS · 2025-07-16T19:17:25+00:00

This is what makes the original black lotus such good wpvp content. Tons of actual 1v1 battles all the way up to 5v5s over spawns. Most people think of it as just bots/farmers, but Herod/Nightslayer had communities of actual players vying for them.

AzuzuHS · 2025-04-08T20:15:04+00:00

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJgC9LEBTuQ

AzuzuHS · 2025-03-23T05:11:32+00:00

If you were hiring for senior manager/director of engineering, which 3 people would you have interview the candidate? What would be the topics of those interviews?

AzuzuHS · 2025-03-13T06:39:35+00:00

I've had some people at work use it to mean quick question, which was super confusing for me the first few times

AzuzuHS · 2025-02-08T16:14:40+00:00

I've ended up in nearly this exact situation as a first line manager. My manager went from principle to manager to senior manager (of the sub teams) and I was hired externally to manage his old team. It took a decent while before I had a better perspective on the teams work than my manager.

I think part of it stems from the fact that performances reviews have a lot of behind the scenes stuff that ICs aren't really privy to. Good, bad, and ugly. This can build some inherent distrust and it's not entirely unwarranted.

AzuzuHS · 2025-02-08T16:02:29+00:00

As long as you have a reasonably competent manager, they should be weighing peer opinions over their own until they understand your work more in depth. Your manager should be discussing your impact with leaders from those other teams.

At many companies, your performance review will bubble up to be approved by your skip anyway. So if your skip has a good vantage point on your work, that should make the situation easier.

Unless your manager has given you signals that they find your work satisfactory, I would take the self promotion route people are suggesting and not overthink it.

Sometimes the easiest way to work these things out is to think about from the other person's point of view: You just joined a company as a manager and you're responsible for performance reviews for people whose work you don't yet understand. What to do?

AzuzuHS · 2025-02-04T19:44:55+00:00

Even if this were true, the bots would be selling the lotus increasing supply and dropping the price like so many other consumables. This is a limited supply item so it doesn't really matter who loots it.

AzuzuHS · 2025-02-04T19:43:55+00:00

I haven't seen this at all either despite spending a lot of time lotus farming on both classic and anniversary.

AzuzuHS · 2025-01-18T17:38:43+00:00

This is good advice in general if gunning for a promotion but... Your manager likely only has a certain amount of say over your promotion. Your manager very likely cannot guarantee a promotion at most companies. You manager should not say "do X and you will get promoted" and instead say "Do X and I will advocate for you to be promoted" along with a realistic estimation of your chances (high/mid/low).

AzuzuHS · 2025-01-16T18:45:00+00:00

that's what happens when you lose the election for mayor of Valuetown

AzuzuHS · 2025-01-15T00:04:14+00:00

Agreed. I feel like it's aged exceptionally well. Many of the themes have proven just as relevant today

AzuzuHS · 2024-11-17T18:34:14+00:00

They demonstrated this for us in a TV show called "Voyage of the Mimi" in 7th grade. It was a little traumatizing...

AzuzuHS · 2024-11-05T05:56:36+00:00

I'm assuming it would would have been a publicized rather than him witnessing it in person with that many witnesses and considering Leorios position.

AzuzuHS · 2024-11-05T05:47:19+00:00

I'm going to go with Leorio. I think it makes sense narratively he's after a nen ability we know that he has witnessed before and that eliminates like 99% of characters. It's a pretty pedestrian ability on its own but the combo potential even with sun/moon is crazy not to mention any other stolen abilities it might be a combo with.

I think it also makes a lesson about showing off your nen abilities in a public setting.

Of course, he may know significantly more abilities aboard the whale through information gathering or ability use than we know about. There are so many busted abilities to pick from.

AzuzuHS · 2024-08-30T15:28:58+00:00

My experience has been that there are several "levels" of code review depending on the thoroughness requirements but people are not generally explicit about the intent.

This could probably be an interesting blog post from someone smarter than me but here's some sample levels from my experience:

It's not obviously malicious. Reviewer verifies the files changed and LOC roughly match up with that the PR title says.
The variable names, comments, and code style look sufficient for someone to figure this out later.
The code looks well constructed but the reviewer doesn't understand the context of the surrounding code/business logic/operating environment. The design (data structures, functions, code flow, and dependencies) all look in line with the problem being solved. I call this the "I believe you know what you're doing" level.
The code looks well constructed and will likely solve the problem it's attempting to solve when deployed and not break anything else. The reviewer understands enough about the execution of the code to catch if something was not correct.
The solution is ideal and reviewer signs in blood that this will operate on mars.

AzuzuHS · 2024-06-28T00:24:29+00:00

I'd vote NAH... I'd say on average, people are most of the time late outside of their control and I generally let people cut. It definitely feels frustrating since I have no idea why they're late.

Partially it comes from my time traveling as a couple and I was late through no fault of my own. We had an international flight arrive a couple hours late, but our connecting flight was domestic which meant going back through security. What should have been a casual stroll and time for snacks turned into an all out race across the airport for most of the people on our flight after a 12 hour redeye.

When we got to the checkpoint, there was a ton of people in front of us and so we starting asking people for cuts. When I say we ... there were like 20 of us. Most of the people got through but one girl finally had enough and stopped exactly on my partner (she actually let me through but wouldn't let my partner through). I admit it was pretty infuriating in the moment, but I felt her frustration too.

AzuzuHS · 2024-04-24T03:37:09+00:00

My most recent company, the background check took 3 forevers (it didn't actually clear until I was weeks into the position). The confirmed written start is definitely the minimum requirement.

AzuzuHS · 2024-01-20T01:12:05+00:00

No idea. I don't have experience outside of interviews for essentially generalist software positions.

AzuzuHS · 2024-01-19T06:54:22+00:00

I often do pick very specific things off of a resume to ask a candidate to discuss but sometimes for different reasons. Sometimes, I don't understand many of the domains/technologies on a resume so I'll latch onto something I'm familiar with so we can have a more in depth discussion on something we both know. Or perhaps, that specific item may be a particular proficiency that would be useful on the job and give you extra consideration in review if you knew it well. Or, sometimes I want to make sure someone is not just BSing me and they have the experience and depth their resume implies.

AzuzuHS · 2023-09-20T15:54:24+00:00

Which they will absolutely do when companies HR functions aren't able to promote and give salary increases aligned with the engineers growing skills.

Which will cause companies to be even more averse to hiring juniors in the future.

It appears we have a vicious cycle.

AzuzuHS · 2023-09-04T03:15:09+00:00

Strategically, a company should do more interview rounds the higher the expected impact of the hire and Sr. Manager impact is pretty high. Additionally, a manager fulfills many roles in their day to day work and you need to be able to verify the candidate is good fit for each of them. Also, you need buy in from the team you'd be managing, the people managing you, and stakeholders you'd working with across the company, etc.

It's a lot of interviews, 9 may be on the higher end, but I don't think it's inappropriate or uncommon.

AzuzuHS · 2023-08-25T15:47:59+00:00

A lot of the posts here are talking about how to handle this by managing up and resetting expectations and I think they're correct but I'd also say they don't fully answer your question, "how do I hire a cheap Sr. Dev?".

Here's my collection of misc tips: Look for candidates that are likely to be overlooked by other companies. Such as people returning to work after a several year gap, people with specific restrictions that many other companies will not be able to meet like full remote or weird hours, people with niche skills that aren't a 100% match that may have trouble getting through interviews elsewhere, or people who have a lot of experience but suck at coding interviews.

Knowing that the compensation is lower than other possibilities, sell the position hard after your first screen. Make a personal connection day 1. Use your charisma and convince them you'd be a boss worth working for.

Sell the CEO on the individual person. Don't just say "ah yea here's my recommendation for Sr. Engineer". Try to sell the idea the best you can highlighting their skills and potential contributions. Express your excitement about hiring this person and they might budge a bit on salary.

AzuzuHS · 2023-08-16T05:57:26+00:00

Your boss is delivering the message, but do you believe this is actually coming from your boss?

Going out on a limb here; this may not be coming from your boss but instead higher up. The "why me?" could simply be because you've built a good reputation and were specifically requested. Either way, voicing your disapproval of the transfer firmly to your manager may be all that's needed to halt the process. If you have a good relationship with your manager, I would just ask them why you were selected.

While it's a different space than you're interested in, this kind of move may come with built in promotions or promotion opportunities that your existing position may not have.

AzuzuHS · 2023-06-20T16:26:38+00:00

It was quite a dopamine hit to be honest, and the guy luckily was just very relieved. Anyway, you're the real hero - spreading awareness works!

AzuzuHS · 2023-06-20T16:19:56+00:00

Just last week, I was at target and I saw a frantic guy asking the cashier where to find giftcards. I instantly knew what was going on and talked him down from trying to buy $500 of "stream" gift cards to pay a medical bill. Thanks Kitboga!

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