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How is this "dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women." You don't know what misogny is.

There are true misogynists out there doing real damage to women. But conflating real misogyny to what the author said, which is nowhere even close to misogyny, is actually undermining all the work people are doing to make people aware of real misogyny.

Misogyny? I do not think it means what you think it means.

I believe in some states it's a criminal offense to record phone conversations without the person's knowledge. So I would be very careful about doing this.

Thank you! May I ask why you decided to eventually leave? And do you regret leaving?

Thank you for your responses, I appreciate it!

Also, prospective employees don't both reading the details either, and just mass apply to jobs, regardless of whether or not the employer asks for local candidates only, etc.

It is really, really hard to apply for an H1B for a candidate unless they just graduated from college and are on OPT. If they are on OPT they basically have 2 chances to apply for an H1B. If you don't, then the employer would have to apply on your behalf on April 1, with a coin-flip probability of getting one, and even if they got one the employee couldn't start work until October 1. That makes anything except an H1B transfer prohibitively risky and inconvenient.

No but I'm necessarily right because I know how a foreclosure works. You don't lose your house after 2 months of non-payment, it takes months and there is a precise legal procedure that has to be complete. Mine was "fast" and it took 9 months.

Having gone through foreclosure myself, there is zero chance that you would lose your house after 2 missed payments.

It really isn't coming back, and I hope it never does. Becoming a Perl expert is pretty career limiting, because you will need to learn another language at some point, and none of them are perl-like so you gain no advantage being a master with perl.

We gave our kid formula with room temperature water for the entire duration of him being on formula. We never heated it ever, and he was fine with it.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself, and get a full time job. You need to accept that you're not good enough to start your own company. It's okay, there are millions of people like you, like me and most people on HN.

Take a break, go on a vacation, and recharge your batteries. You have the skills to have a well-paid job, and a great life. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth just because you had a failed dream of being a millionaire through some startup. You can still have a great life from your skills, if you just step back and realize how lucky you are.

I would love it if Google spent some time re-interviewing a bunch of their current employees, to see how good their interview process is compared to random chance.

I know their best employees would likely pass the interview with flying colors, but my hunch is that there would be a large percentage of their employees that would fail. If they did a thorough analysis, my hunch is that their hiring process is likely determined by who their interviewers are, rather than who the candidate is.

I'm not bitter because I was rejected twice, but I do believe that their hiring process is a lot more random than what they believe it to be.

I've been through a couple of Google interviews. My last one, I didn't even apply for, they contacted me a couple of months ago, asking if I wanted to interview. Why the heck not. I guess my previous interview was good enough such that they didn't require a phone interview, so I skipped that. Although it's perfectly reasonable to think that they were just trying to hurry the process up for everyone so that's why they had me skip the phone interview, and there was nothing particularly special about me.

I had 5 interviews, and I didn't end up getting the job. I didn't do that great, and I knew it. I spent 2 weeks preparing and covered what I thought were my weak points, and still of the 5 interviews, 1 I nailed, 2 I did pretty good, and 2 I did just okay on, but not horrible.

I can understand why this got me rejected, though. I'm not whining that it's not fair, because obviously they have a particular type of person they want to hire, and I didn't fulfill the qualifications. I think I'm pretty smart with pretty good experience, but nothing entitles me to a job anywhere, especially at Google. The questions were extremely hard, but fair, because as I said, I guess they're trying to hire candidates who can answer them.

The thing I didn't like, however, was how some of the interviews were conducted. One in particular was a guy who asked me a fairly hard question, something that I hadn't seen before, and I was stumped for a bit, so I wanted a couple of minutes to think it through in my head. As I was trying to answer it on the whiteboard, he kept interrupting me, and kept steering me to HIS solution, not my solution. So because it wasn't my solution, I kept on trying to guess at what he was trying to say, and because of that I didn't have the benefit of having thought through it completely. This meant that I had a couple of bugs in my solution, because I spent most of the time trying to figure out where he was steering me to, and I didn't get the benefit of having thought through the process in my own way, where I probably would have caught the bugs.

It was also obvious from his tone that he was annoyed at having to provide me with the answer that he wanted to hear me say. This left a rather bitter taste in my mouth.

I would rather have finished the interview with a completely blank whiteboard because I was totally stumped, rather than play mind-reader and trying to guess at what the interview was pushing me towards. At least a blank whiteboard would have been a more accurate portrayal of my answer, instead of some half-baked solution because the interviewer kept pushing me towards a solution that I didn't get enough time to think through.

Is your price really 50 cents per print plus shipping?

Costco.com will print for 12 cents per print and free shipping, are you guys going to be able to be competitive against them?

Facebook does not care about user privacy. They have gone on record saying this multiple times (and then quickly recanted it). They do not care about user privacy because it goes against everything that Facebook needs in order to grow.

For example, if you tag a photo with a friend's name, all of that friend's friends can see this photo, even if you restrict who can see your photos. You cannot change this, which means you have now lost control of your own privacy. I do not want strangers seeing my photos, but I can't prevent this unless I stop tagging photos, which is what I have done.

More importantly, I'm moving away from Facebook because they don't give a fuck about privacy.

I'm not sure what your point is. Is it to say that it takes minorities to create poverty?

Are you saying there aren't poor white communities in the US? What about around the world, like Eastern Europe, or even Greece?

It's called having some common courtesy. Companies such as yours that think it's beneath them to spend the 10 seconds to respond back to people is a huge redflag that they're filled with arrogant pricks.

I applied to Twitter and the HR person asked me for dates for phone interviews, and then didn't respond for weeks after I gave them the dates. Twitter HR and their recruitment process is amongst the worst I've ever encountered.

Also, if you get rejected by them, they don't have the common courtesy to let you know, even if you try contacting them. Apparently it's beneath them to respond with even 140 characters.

that's funny because if you read the thread a few weeks ago about "how much did you make from your startup's exit", most non-founders got royally screwed, making less than 20k. the tales of VCs screwing people over or founders screwing over employees in SV is legendary

Awesome! Thanks, this is just the kind of things I was hoping to hear!

Thanks. I'm passionate, although maybe not where fruits are exploding out of my mind :) But I do believe I have enough passion to sustain me, so thanks for pointing that as being a need.

Thanks, for the reply!

Working on real problems is definitely my intent. I have background in developing shrinkwrap enterprise applications, which I believe is a dead industry going forward. I need to get experience in the way business is done these days, which is web-scale backends dropped right on the internet, and iphone/web front ends. My current job won't get me that experience, so I figured that now is the best time to strike it on my own, and build the entire infrastructure on my own and/or with my other programming friends. I'm treating this as a real project, not just a hobby, and my milestones involve releasing working, quality products, so I agree that solving a real world problem will get me the best experience.

Thanks again for your reply!

Thanks! My previous work history is stable, but I definitely am not someone who would jump around, but thanks for that insight, it will be something that I keep in mind.

Thanks, this is great advice! I will absolutely do this, not because I want to deceive people, but because I do want to turn this into a real business. If I structure this as a real business, then it puts my head in the right place as well.

Sorry to be so blunt, but for someone who doesn't have any social skills, it's odd you would feel that Dale Carnegie's book is outdated. It doesn't seem like you are qualified to know what is outdated or not, given your lack of expertise.

I suggest you follow that book because it concentrates on the fundamentals. It's very important you internalize this.

When you go to the Hackers and Founders meetup, every 1 hr, walk up to someone and say "Hi, my name is gs7. So what brings you here?" It is awkward and embarrassing, but work through it. You'll get over it. At least it's friendly and people won't think you're a jerk. And then you can engage people on things that are interesting to both of you.

If you do this exactly 100 times over the course of several months, you'll find that it's not a problem anymore. All it takes is practice. You will fail miserably the first 40 times. The next 30 times, you'll do crappy, but you'll be doing better. The next 20 times, you'll be doing okay. And the last 10 times, you'll be good at it.