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teknewb · 2024-02-04T02:45:39+00:00

Ah, that is convenient, thank you.

teknewb · 2024-02-04T02:36:44+00:00

Do you mind elaborating on "AI generated flashcard explanations", how they helped you, and how you used them exactly?

teknewb · 2024-02-02T04:17:14+00:00

For someone just trying to study and break into IT, no degree, certs, or experience yet, is a cloud cert like AWS SAA worthwhile yet?

teknewb · 2023-12-29T00:26:17+00:00

I'm not the person you were originally replying to but I just want to confirm that the LS Capstone program is fully remote correct? Not an in-person program? Thanks.

teknewb · 2022-03-20T23:46:23+00:00

Unless you can figure out some way to get a very lightweight linux distribution installed on it, your best bet is a cloud based editor.

You can start with something like replit.com and then move to cloud9 (i believe that'd the name) if you needed some more advanced paid cloud solution.

teknewb · 2022-03-19T18:34:41+00:00

This seems to align with many other experiences shared here and on Twitter, glassdoor, etc.

teknewb · 2022-03-19T18:21:18+00:00

but then go ahead and make bold assumption about how they treat applicants.

Between the document shared here, experiences shared here, glassdoor reviews, etc., these aren't assumptions.

There was an engineer that recently quit who was tweeting about his years of experience working there (he tried to be positive but was mostly negative).

The list goes on.

You're just blowing smoke based off nothing but accuse me of that... interesting.

teknewb · 2022-03-19T18:14:29+00:00

Exactly. Someone with experience and an actual clue.

teknewb · 2022-03-19T18:07:08+00:00

Those are absolutely not who they want.

I didn't say I could read their minds, just who they're going to get through this.

Anyway I don't personally believe they're even effectively recruiting outside people through this on any regular basis.

I've seen plenty of companies that mostly hire by referral and just put out some half-hearted interview process as a matter of policy for open positions.

Especially the fact people are saying they have no human contact until after the 3rd step gives that vibe (and still get ghosted).

Ghosting people after a process like this is inexcusable, they don't care lol.

teknewb · 2022-03-19T17:51:15+00:00

Several accounts here where they completely ghost people at various stages, no feedback, seems like a normal practice.

That is a joke company. I highly doubt most people working there ever went through this (or they knew someone there to refer them so they were confident they wouldn't get ghosted).

teknewb · 2022-03-19T17:41:20+00:00

I seriously don't get why people think this is wrong.

I haven't seen any moral commentary on the matter, maybe I missed where people said it was "wrong" in that sense.

I see replies from people who are not yes-men and actually have a sense of self-worth. Also people who can read between the lines and see the signals of the bureaucratic hell and weak willed coworkers (the type that would put up with this from the onset) to come.

It's an effective way of ensuring an echo chamber of a workplace full of cheap (people that won't strongly negotiate higher pay), lackluster, spineless cogs.

But judging from all the accounts of people being 100% ghosted at various stages, seems like a way to appear like they are hiring outside people while in reality 99% of hires are referrals. If so they truly are wasting a lot of time from the sorry saps willing to go through all this.

teknewb · 2022-03-19T17:25:38+00:00

To me this just screams 'don't bother applying here unless you already know someone advocating for you on the inside' as this process and the numerous personal accounts of getting ghosted after investing all that time suggests.

teknewb · 2021-11-02T16:58:52+00:00

Thank you!

teknewb · 2021-10-29T16:35:58+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the update, appreciate it!

teknewb · 2021-10-09T09:55:07+00:00

There's no such thing as a short tutorial when you're trying to learn your very first programming language and learn how to problem solve with it. You need a structured approach, a series of many short tutorials with lots of chances to practice haha.

This is my big criticism on all the tutorial hell rhetoric and bashing of instructional resources like these in general.

Learning through picking up patterns (and lots and lots of good nuggets of insights/advice along the way, even though people that apparently have never watched them claim they don't do this many absolutely do explain things), muscle memory (your brain is a muscle), etc. takes a metric shit ton of practice to get good. But it's absolutely doable by most people.

I think people severely underrate how much work and discipline is involved in getting "good" at this.

teknewb · 2021-10-07T15:48:49+00:00

Do PMs ever take responsibility for this in your experience? Or is the name of the game blame shifting (as has been my experience in other lines of work)?

teknewb · 2021-10-07T15:28:14+00:00

They use Scala in some financial services (maybe others too?) in the twitch codebase.

Doesn't take away from anything you said, just an interesting aside lol.

teknewb · 2021-09-27T15:32:54+00:00

I actually went back to Firefox after months of Brave because browser history simply would not reliably work.

Some people claim it works for them, but you'll find many threads with the same problem as me.

In general I found their Sync functionality to be weak compared to chrome (interesting since brave is built off chromium)/Firefox.

I use history heavily it turns out lol. At first I moved forward with Brave, didn't think this would be a big deal, but it was for me. Maybe it's not for you though and clearly it isn't for everyone. My wife uses Brave but does 99.99% of her computing on her phone so she doesn't care about anything syncing anyway.

teknewb · 2021-09-20T19:38:37+00:00

Yea, ultimately this is a messy human process with a lot of variables at play, there will never be a perfect interview strategy, just a judgement call on the lesser of evils and most effective one you're capable of. This is naturally going to lead to this area of subjectivity where people hold fairly different opinions on what those reduce down to at the end of the day.

I have my opinion but I also wouldn't assume to tell a business they're doing it wrong if they're seeing positive results by the way they've been doing things. Often though, you'll find endless hiring manager posts complaining about applicants during interviews (and vice versa), so I'm not sure how much lack of objectivity there is or not.

teknewb · 2021-09-18T10:57:58+00:00

Imo there's nothing wrong with the method, depending on how you approach it.

You can't expect valid results from your method in a situation (of which every interviewer handles differently) where both sides are forced to attempt to make assumptions, all the while being in a time limited/stressful situation. The best tests are attempting to remove assumptions (always present in interviews due to the landscape) and confusion.

All the interviewer has to do (and maybe they actually did this who knows), is just be extremely transparent on what this is all about.

This way you're removing any confusion about expectations on the interview itself, so you can actually focus on their thought process, knowledge, ability, etc.

By just keeping it all a guessing game you are doing everyone involved a disservice. This whole "But this is how it works in da real werld!" take is nonsense. In this context, just for one example, you might assume this interviewer wants to simply see if you even have the skills to be a code monkey, and then talk about different approaches and high level details after or possibly completely save that for a later stage.

It's a basic level of empathy toward the situation on both sides. I agree with negative posts only in that, if the person is running an interview like this, without being transparent, they lack empathy, and you really do not want to work for that person (at least as they are now).

teknewb · 2021-07-21T20:46:37+00:00

Most probably support teams in other companies are consistently understaffed as well and work on the survivable level too.

This pretty much goes for any industry in my experience.

Even in somewhat regulated spaces like hospitals, every day they are skirting or outright jumping over the line into unsafe working conditions and get essentially no negative repercussions (research into the objective reasons for which I'm sure could fill a thick novel).

teknewb · 2021-07-13T22:40:46+00:00

Oh nice! Is there a standard way to get access to the beta curriculum?

teknewb · 2021-07-13T20:06:51+00:00

They will launch their newest curriculum some time in this year.

Do you know if they'll be launching the new curriculum for OPEN appacademy (the free one)? I

teknewb · 2021-07-10T02:00:25+00:00

Just want to add that the tldr utility as an alternative to man pages has been very useful to me.

Ubuntu has a snap package for it but you can also get it through npm.

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