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Except CEOs such as Google's are incentivized to maximize their own payouts. It just happens that during their tenure, this happens to be aligned with shareholder value.
Right. If these productivity gains actually scaled, then why not add more people?
Why would other industries need version control with tools like Gitlab, Github, or Jira. These tools exist to solve complexity problems that arise in software. They aren't making the tech industry more productive then others. If anything, it's a huge red flag if a company is a little too obsessed with Jira.
This question is better for r/cscareerquestions where there are more junior engineers and college grads. Gauge the situation with recent CS grads, and if they have trouble getting a job, you’ll have it way worst as a boot camp grad.
That’s going to be biased. Social media users are probably more likely to post about hermit crab with human made shells.
and they’d credible if they hosted Joe Biden?
Doesn’t seem people care about what’s going in Africa. People care here because this is a war of religion. And by that, I mean whether Western countries remain increasingly supreme (in terms of the world order).
Technologically advanced, sure. Mighty? They have a pretty small population compared to most countries in Asia.
That's not true. YC startup Tailor, the first (and only?) Japan startup that YC funded, left me on read on LinkedIn. They ignored my application without a response, too. Pretty confident this company discriminates against non-Japanese.
To be fair, the whole American tech culture of inclusitivity is not really a thing in Japan or most Asian countries. My freind works as a designer at a bank's tech arm, and told me wild stories of coworkers parading their sex videos around the office. Her boss straight up told her she was hired because she pretty, and that he was proud of forming a team of models (both male and female). I talked to other people who worked in East Asia, and they found these stories to be unsurprising.
> to access public data
Keyword is access. Hosting on AWS is an implementation detail that doesn't block the end consumer from accessing the data.
Either don’t send your kids to college or don’t expect society to pay for them then
Sure, people can rote memorize "public static void main(String[] args)", but there's way you can test them their understanding on each of these magic keywords. This would achieve the goal of understanding programming language constructs without unrealistic algorithmic questions.
The issue at hand is that the "unrealistic" algorithm questions aren't fizzbuzz.
For many decades, Floyd's Cycle Detection algorithm was unknown in academic circles as the most efficient method of cycle detection.
It is not uncommon to encounter this problem in an interview. There's nothing revealing about the unconscious mind and process, other than that the candidate remembered the solution to this problem.
If it was so readily obvious to derive and arrive at a solution, you would have expected the army of PhDs and academics to have done so.
Companies have not found a process at scale where they can train their employees to systematically gauge candidates.
Small and startup companies where leadership is still involved in the interview process can gauge candidates based on their own technical intuition. So it's false to say NOBODY has a proxy for good software engineering skills. The founders can also look at the candidate's public code contributions.
The problem is that this method does not scale. If you trusted employees to hire based on feel and intuition, you open up the door for people to bring in incompetent friends.
The real problem here is incentives. Founders have a financial incentive to not hire bad candidates. Employees don't, and that's why a standardized process is needed.
Dedicated is a nice way of putting it.
The school system was funded by industrialists who needed well behaved and obedient workers. Academic and Leetcode problems which exist in a vacuum select for those who follows the rules. Tech companies don't actualy want people with a mind of their own.
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