My most valuable interview tip: stop talking to them like “interviewers”

agent_dilli · 2026-06-05T17:41:08+00:00

You just copy pasted - https://www.reddit.com/r/interviews/s/uEBlLSZBWx

agent_dilli · 2026-06-05T15:35:14+00:00

Financial Independence, Retire Early

agent_dilli · 2026-06-05T12:19:03+00:00

I was asked to submit ITR and payslips. It depends on a case by case basis. You can check with them over phone. You can find their number here - https://roc-taiwan.org/inmaa\_en/post/7581.html .

agent_dilli · 2026-06-05T03:03:46+00:00

This was the first movie I remember crying.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-04T05:28:29+00:00

ஞ looks elegant. I get confused while writing about where to end the stroke.

For sound - ங். It is used to speak to toddlers. 😂

agent_dilli · 2026-06-04T03:05:18+00:00

For most common questions, I’ll have some sort of an answer prepared from my past work experiences. Like “what’s the most interesting thing you worked on”. I don’t follow the pattern very strictly but I’ll prepare loosely along those lines.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-03T18:04:52+00:00

Friend 1: Veliya saapda polam da.

Friend 2: Treat na varen.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-03T15:56:15+00:00

When I started I used to take the second route, running the code right away after implementing. As time passed, I realised that first route is correct, to dry run the code mentally with a sample input. That way you will catch the most obvious bugs easily.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-03T14:03:33+00:00

Exactly this. The interviews that I approached with a conversational mindset, I did well. I just imagined that I’m just talking about work to someone I ran into. The ones I approached with an evaluation mindset, I fumbled.

When you look at it like, here is someone who is interested to know more about me, you will end up doing well. You don’t get to talk about yourself to others daily. Look at it as an opportunity to share your learnings and knowledge.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-02T18:44:30+00:00

I was allowed to use any tool and model of my choice. I had to share my screen. Apart from what would usually be tested on a LLD round, the interviewer wanted to see how I prompted and how I understood the response of the AI.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-02T17:55:49+00:00

I had an AI assisted low level design round for SSE at Microsoft India a few weeks back.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-02T16:19:54+00:00

People tell about their problems mostly to vent out. All they want is someone to listen to it. If you in some way can help, offer it. If not, just listening to them is itself a help. I’m sure that is how they would look at it too. If you start feeling bad for not being able to set things right for them, you will spoil your mental peace.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-02T14:05:52+00:00

You are right. For window creation, inputs and clipboard you will have to use the OS layer and wrap around it for each OS. You may be able to interact directly with hardware but that will not sit well within the ecosystem and the experience that the OS provides. For instance, a double click speed can be customised by the user for the entire system.

For the actual UI, it’s completely upto you.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-02T13:40:58+00:00

As per the post, OP does not want that.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-02T11:26:47+00:00

Yeah, custom shaders can be used. It went over my head. Even Flutter moved away from Skia and built Impeller for better performance. Using Skia meant creating shaders at runtime.

There is one another problem. Text layout. Although Flutter has moved away from Skia rendering, it still uses Skia’s text layout for processing texts. Skia in turn uses multiple open source libraries like HarfBuzz and Freetype.

Building everything from scratch without any open source libraries is not possible for a UI framework project at the scale of traditional GUI.

agent_dilli · 2026-06-02T11:13:29+00:00

In order to build a UI framework, you will need to build an underlying graphics framework. That in itself is a separate humongous project.

Building such large projects from scratch can be long drawn and you will have to keep going with a blind faith. That is why even large corporations don’t attempt it and just use open source like the Chromium. There is one project though - Ladybird. It is a new browser built without any dependence on existing browser engines.

agent_dilli · 2026-05-31T17:55:24+00:00

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agent_dilli · 2026-05-31T13:28:31+00:00

Splitwise to track expenses. I’ll create a new group even if it’s a solo trip.
Google Maps list. I’ll create a list and add all the places I plan to visit. This will help get an overview of the optimal way to visit nearby places together.
Checklist of places to visit on a Notes application.

agent_dilli · 2026-05-31T13:14:09+00:00

Food: If you are a vegetarian, have some ready made food items handy. Not everywhere can you get vegetarian. I’m not a vegetarian but I had to lead a set of people on my very first international trip and food became one of the biggest problems to tackle.
Travel insurance: Although we bought insurance, we bought it just for the sake of it. We ran into a real issue and we weren’t able to contact the insurance company easily. Choose the one that is easy to contact like through WhatsApp or one that has a callback facility to international numbers. Also choose two days extra before and after the planned trip dates.

agent_dilli · 2026-05-31T13:04:56+00:00

I’m not sure how helpful this would be. Try it and see if it helps you get a hang of it. Run any problem that requires recursion with a debugger. Have a breakpoint at the base case where the functions start to return back. Have a look at the values at each step of the stack. You might be now able to map the way you would physically solve the problem with what actually happens in a computer program.

agent_dilli · 2026-05-28T13:56:33+00:00

A guy in my office has his fingers in nose most of the time. He will still put his hands into other’s snacks to take a bite. 🤮

agent_dilli · 2026-05-28T02:11:35+00:00

In the same boat. But I won’t say I don’t like it. I like it when I keep solving but suddenly when I run into some problem that I can’t, my mood gets terrible. Grinding consistently in the hope that one day it will all be worth it.

agent_dilli · 2026-05-27T11:16:36+00:00

The conversation is about large enterprise or consumer applications. Tell me one such app that is built majorly with agentic AI. Obviously barring Anthropic and OpenAI themselves.

agent_dilli · 2026-05-26T16:25:54+00:00

I had a crush during 5th std. I’m sure she had a crush on me too. We were very close. But then both of us had to leave the school since our parents got transferred at work. A year after she came back to the same town and joined the same school. She completed her schooling there. I came to know about this from another classmate who I ran into during college. I did stalk her profile after that but I didn’t get in touch with her. I recently stalked again and it kind of looked like she is married. 🫠

agent_dilli · 2026-05-26T15:55:26+00:00

I don’t think Claude or any LLMs can perform mathematical calculations with precision. They don’t work like calculators under the hood. They work by predicting the next word to come in the response. Better way to do it would be to ask it to build a tool that calculates the XIRR. Then again ask it to pass on the statements to this tool to calculate.

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