first, we use ai to apply to jobs. then, we use ai to screen candidates. next thing we know we’re being assigned jobs at birth.

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Hustle Bros: “Video games are a waste of time! You should be grinding 24/7!”

Levels: *Sets up a Minecraft server*

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Pilot Threatened with Arrest Over Hurricane Rescues https://youtu.be/yjda3xkZ4cc?si=3IFazzUd_suiHsVA… via @YouTube

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Do anyone ever remember anything about Shrek 2 lol?

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Watching this reality show and a girl asks a dude “what movie do i remind you of?” And he says: Shrek 2. The girl shrugs, he spends the next 30 min rationalizing it, it did not cook.

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Amazing!!!!

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I'll get to it Monday, need to quiz some TC39 folks and gauge where the wind is blowing.

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IME, when a manager labels a team " dysfunctional," it's usually the manager who's dysfunctional, not the team.

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Here’s the uncomfortable truth: it doesn’t matter that whiteboard coding tests / LC don’t measure a lot of things a dev needs to do day to day.

They are the currently known most economical filter to hire *at scale*. I’m talking when you hire 100+ devs per year (or 1,000+)

Hiring is done by people who are devs themselves and you want to keep a similar bar between different parts of the org.

Yes, tasks that simulate day-to-day work give better signal. But they require far larger investment and it’s problematic when the question leaks. (When you do more than 20-30 interviews with the same question, expect it to leak and be googleable when people search for what your hiring process is). With algorithmic questions it makes no difference if it leaks, given companies have a question bank in the hundreds!

A nice side effect for large companies is they self select for people who are willing to put up with BS things: aka spend considerable amount of time to do something mostly pointless (prepare for these algo interviews), just because it’s how things work and what it takes to get the job. Those who refuse to do this would likely not be a fit for these environments where these interviews are not the first or last things that are process you follow… just because.

And make no mistake: these places screen for soft skills, teamwork etc. Those are done via recruiter screen, hiring manager interviews, to some extent architecture and bar raiser. The coding / algorithm interview is usually 1 or 2 out of 5-6 interviews. And the coding part is usually the most trivial to pass (for anyone putting in the effort to prep - see the point on putting up with mostly pointless stuff the job asks for)

The problem is not that Big Tech uses these hiring processes (it makes perfect sense for them!) It’s when small companies hiring 5-10 ppl per year copy it, without thinking.

More on how to build a sensible hiring process without blindly copying this: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/hiring-software-engineers…

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It’s nearly impossible to hire a 10x engineer if you’re not at least 5x yourself.

It’s nearly impossible to hire a 10x marketer if you’re not at least 5x yourself.

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"There has to be a responsibility that is placed upon these social media sites that they understand their power. They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation; and that has to stop." -- Kamala Harris.

Oh no! Directly speaking? We can't have that! What the people hear must be regulated and overseen by...by...

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You may have missed it, in the VP debate, but Walz used the phrase "You can't shout fire in a crowded theater." while trying to parry Vance's criticism of Harris' position on free speech.

The irony is, of course, delicious. The sheer ignorance that our politicians have for our history is tragic.

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everything is an illusion, your personality is a pre-determined illusion, there is nothing to solve but your own self, there is nothing to build but yourself

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everyone is pissed off at apple for being bullies the past two decades so they will make absolutely certain they do not control the next substrate of consumer technology

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There's a fascinating, once-in-a-generation proposal knocking around to fundamentally change JS.

Sadly I can't post about it cause I'm moving, sorryyyy

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Who can relate?

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Everybody hates those ridiculous whiteboard-coding tests that people are forced to take in interviews, and for good reason. The main problem is that they tell you absolutely nothing useful. When I'm hiring, I want to hire people who will integrate well with the teams, who have demonstrated their ability to _learn_, who are creative and show some initiative, who can communicate effectively (both in code and in English—I'm in the US). I'm looking for a contributor, not a code monkey. I don't really care if they can pull code out of their heads like a rabbit out of a hat. That's a learnable skill. Software development is primarily a social activity nowadays, so I'm also screening for "soft" skills. The whiteboard tests are telling me that you're hiring somebody to work alone in a cave where you'll throw a slab of meat to them when they get hungry. That's the least effective way to build software and not a skill set worth filtering for.

The best way I know to assess all of that is to put the candidate into a mob/ensemble for a day and have them do real work with a real team (and PAY them to do that—they're out of work; they can use the money). Dump those Mickey Mouse code-writing games into the trash, where they belong.

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About to be benihana in my house. Send me your fav things to make

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