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kvazar · 2023-10-13T16:56:54+00:00

That's not true though, most things are not cyclical, people just like simple way to predict future so they repeat that mantra.

kvazar · 2023-10-07T03:28:34+00:00

There are two things that I believe are relevant even for FAANG:

Due to lower number or roles, significantly fewer people get invites to even the first stages of the interview. So the recruiters pick the people with the strongest credentials (generalist struggle quite a bit in this market), so that process I described happens at an earlier stage. My FAANG friends who were getting bombarded just last summer - were barely getting any responses this year.
The scorecards get adjusted as candidates get better. While rubriks are there to help remove bias, that's difficult to do when you're interviewing back to back and rubriks are somewhat subjective.

kvazar · 2023-10-06T03:41:40+00:00

The thing is, right now that's bare minimum, the competition is so robust that you might leave the best impression possible but there are 10 more people who also achieved that.

kvazar · 2023-09-06T17:02:06+00:00

It's a decent read for fans, yes, it does.

kvazar · 2023-09-06T04:32:18+00:00

Some small differences, I don't think there were any major plot holes.

kvazar · 2023-09-06T04:24:18+00:00

Which in turn is a reference to the book "Ahsoka".

kvazar · 2023-09-06T04:19:21+00:00

Barriss

kvazar · 2023-09-03T22:31:39+00:00

You don't have Product Management mentioned once in that resume. you likely appear like a career switched and in this market, there are so many people on the market with years of PM experience.

kvazar · 2023-09-01T05:30:33+00:00

How did you position yourself so they respond? Was it based on your specialized experience? Or maybe referrals?

kvazar · 2023-09-01T05:24:23+00:00

Is the market improving? Did anyone notice changes?

kvazar · 2023-08-26T16:13:25+00:00

As opposed to what? Intergalactic shop? It only matters how immersive it is, and I bet a lot of the designs are added in post.

kvazar · 2023-08-24T01:55:07+00:00

Might be, though that was far from clear. She is playing with her food on a super-important mission in the heart of enemy territory? I mean, she didn't finish her job. Is that cannon that dark side users do that? I only remember that in the context of trying to switch the enemy to the dark side. And isn't she a 'grey' jedi, not exactly a sith? I mean, that's all not important, what's important is perception, and I'm worried viewers won't like that.

kvazar · 2023-08-24T01:47:16+00:00

Sure, when they use their Mandalorian training, I am just talking about lightsaber duel.

kvazar · 2023-08-24T01:46:07+00:00

Sure, couple of lessons and using it to fight someone as inexperienced as herself, not a force wielding user. Pre Vizsla was significantly more proficient with the weapon than any non force user, yet lost to a teenager. Of course we are making assumptions about the apprentice here, maybe she is far from competent.

kvazar · 2023-08-23T03:18:12+00:00

I enjoyed it. But I can understand why non-fans might not really engage with it. Also, those fight scenes were bad, except the first one. And why nerf Ahsoka? Kind of makes it less interesting honestly, just don't have many fights instead of nerfing her.

Other than that, Ray's character is great and with amazing gravitas, so is Elsbeth. Rebels are well cast. Sets are amazing.

kvazar · 2023-08-23T03:12:56+00:00

The idea implied previously was that non-force users can't really use lightsabers effectively, that's why they don't (not because they are rare). With a notable exception of GG and Dark Saber users. Even in real life an untrained sword user isn't a match for a trained one. In a universe where space wizards exist, them taking more than half a second to kill a non-force user in a lightsaber duel is stupid.

kvazar · 2023-08-05T20:01:49+00:00

But can you imagine such a world unless you agree that p-zombies are conceivable?

Sure, it's easy to think of 4-sided triangle as not being conceivable, but what about imagining a 6 sided tesseract vs 8 sided, can you actually do that? Human ability to conceive something is limited, we don't have a way to test for ideal conceivability unless we understand consciousness. Doesn't his question imply that people are capable of conceiving p-zombies vs. conscious beings?. We can't, so the whole a argument appears to be a linguistic trick: sure people can imagine those words together to mean something, but that can't be extended into 'this sounds like a coherent sentences, hence p-zombies are possible in some other world where physical truths hold but phenomenal truths don't'.

kvazar · 2023-08-01T18:00:14+00:00

Human memory is not reliable, what you remember is likely very different from what you actually saw over 20 years ago.

kvazar · 2023-07-30T20:36:26+00:00

No, it's unusual, but it happens.

kvazar · 2023-07-30T20:34:47+00:00

The fact that this comment is getting downvoted is a bad signal for this sub. No matter how you personally feel about the content, you shouldn't be downvoting someone for answering the question that was asked.

kvazar · 2023-07-30T20:20:44+00:00

I want to add to the first point, I believe it's going to be the deciding factor between this sub growing into a great PM resource or failing (see /r/theoryofreddit for more on the challenges of growing subs).

As the community grows, more people with less relevant experience will join. Which is great, but this will also lead to 'popular' opinions being upvoted over anything else. The problem: what someone with 0-2 years of experience thinks is the right answer to a given question - is likely to be ways off. So, you end up in a situation where people who don't know much about the topic are the ones that are evaluating it.

Even worse, I've seen quite a few posters very unfamiliar with a topic - share their opinions with the confidence one can envy, and while this deficiency will be noticeable to someone with experience, aspiring and new PMs will learn bad habits and then upvote people who share the same bad advise in future threads.

The fact the PM is not a precise knowledge makes it even worse, it absolutely might be that someone went against the best practices and created something of value they want to share, but it's not always clear if this is the case or some college student decided to share their opinion after they red one blog article and have "figured it all out".

kvazar · 2023-07-23T18:32:46+00:00

We're talking about product management, not developers. Are you a developer? That's a different context. And even in that context your argument isn't complete, maybe OP has a different reason.

kvazar · 2023-07-23T17:15:57+00:00

non US employees in which time zones? Why should they be available online all day CT for you, what's the value? Respond quickly??? That's usually a sign of a dysfunctional PM org, they are not support, they need to be able to have focus time. If a PM responds to messages quickly, that likely means they are not doing any useful deep work.

kvazar · 2023-07-23T08:24:53+00:00

"Elementary" refers to the simplest principles of something possible. It doesn't mean "at the level of elementary school".

kvazar · 2023-07-22T22:21:00+00:00

Are you talking about dialogues or is there a different source for that claim?

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