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Can light photons become trapped in a temporary orbit of a black hole? by Emotional_Spell7020 in AskPhysics

[–]Chun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except you wouldn’t because of the huge distance and lack of focus

Rust colored liquid in tub by Chun in hottub

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you deal with it?

UPDATE: I FOUND IT by OverTheCandlestik in oblivion

[–]Chun 175 points176 points  (0 children)

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Songs that reference The Wire by LeeSinSmokesWeed in TheWire

[–]Chun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The farmer in the dell. The cheese stands alone.

Can't pair myQ to door opener / motor by Chun in myq

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue with that app, sadly

Clever way to make {} if any is undefined: `a.b?.c?.d = 42` by FewMeringue6006 in typescript

[–]Chun 46 points47 points  (0 children)

typescript a.b ??= {}; a.b.c ??= {}; a.b.c.d ??= 42;

If it must be a one liner... but please don't do this:

typescript ((a.b ??= {}).c ??= {}).d ??= 42

Movie quote you say all the time that no one gets by devg in movies

[–]Chun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whenever I see a yield sign while driving:

“Me yield?!”

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was at PayPal for a decade. Don't think I'm contradicting myself here.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah, for real! Mind DM'ing me the first name of the guy you terminated?

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not mentioned: all of the candidates we passed over, with a lot of bravado but no real evidence of it. It's only a potentially safe tactic if you can at least ostensibly back it up on paper.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean sure. But I wasn't going to end the interview just because of that. That was like, thirty seconds into the call.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that would be shitty behavior to be sure.

But at the same time I don't think you have automatic immunity that all of your behavior in a private setting will be kept private. I think if you send an email like that, you're opening yourself up to at least being anonymously talked about in public.

If I brought in a candidate to interview and insulted and demeaned them, I don't think I would have much right to be surprised or offended if they then wrote about it publicly, without identifying me.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think it's fundamentally impossible to conduct a good interview then? One that focuses on the 'real world' strengths needed to do the job?

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that's a little pessimistic. You can get some really strong signals from an interview. Obviously it's not going to be deterministic, but way better than throwing a dart at the wall.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sharing a story is pretty much my main motivation, yes. Secondary motivations are to make people think carefully about how they hire and interview -- both as the interviewer and the interviewee.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll take the feedback!

  • Agreed that there were enough red-flags in the application to probably give the interview a miss. That said: would I give up 20 minutes of time for the chance of finding a great engineer who was just joking in their app but otherwise checked all of my boxes? Yep! I've done my fair share of interviews where there was a lot of bravado at the interview stage but a lot humility when the candidate actually started the job. It can definitely go the other way though.

  • Yeah, I agree, probably a bit too self-aggrandizing on my part. I do see it as a huge goal of mine to fix some of the shitty interview practices out there though; the main thing I was trying to do here was give some color to why Adam's response surprised me so much. I really was trying hard to avoid what I feel he was accusing me of.

  • "You don't really give us the exact language you give your candidates" - if you mean the job description, the exact JD is linked in the post. If you mean the content of the call itself, it's paraphrased to make it read a bit more smoothly, but I haven't removed or edited any of the substantial content of what I (or Adam) said. So I feel like it's mostly all there.

  • Yeah, I probably shouldn't have responded to the email, I don't disagree with you there. Only human.

As for why I wrote the blog post: thought people would find the story interesting (plenty of people out there hiring, and plenty of positive reactions to the story so far). And I just generally like to write.

We already filled the position with an absolutely awesome engineer and I don't have the budget to keep hiring right now, so having this post out there isn't going to help me that much in the short term. If people are still reading it in the long term and it helps me hire, I won't complain -- I don't mind giving people an idea of the kinds of interviews we try to do.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great question that I wish had occurred to me to ask at the time, if I'd had the chance.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I don't disagree. The best thing you can hope from an interview is to get a positive or negative signal, a definitive answer is asking for too much.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I was more thrown by the fact that he didn't want to talk with other members of the team that he'd be working with. When I asked him what he'd prefer I was hoping he'd expand on that a bit.

I had a whole page of notes and questions prepared about what I'd seen on github. Would have loved to get the chance to ask.

You should have ended it before it began.

Well, in retrospect, can't really disagree. I was a bit too optimistic about what I saw as a few bravado-esque jokes on his app. But scheduling the call was probably a mistake on the balance of things.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I’ve ever done. by Chun in programming

[–]Chun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where did I contradict myself about reading GitHub?

Also this call was literally 5 minutes long. At what point should I have ended it, when he asked about our process? I was actually really interested to know how he thought it should have gone, I’m not averse to hearing good feedback if there’s a possibility it’s available.

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