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They called me eventually were kind on the call. But the whole communication issues leading up to that really ruined it for me. I was initially quite excited too. I have no idea if this is common or if my recruiter was especially bad. Reading the parent comment made me think of the similarity.

Sounds like my experience with their recruiting.

Nov 2019 - interviews

Dec 2019 - passed hiring committee

Dec to June 2020 - emailed recruiter every two weeks never heard back

June 2020 - cold email from recruiter “here is your offer letter to join Google! Let's talk team match.”

Needless to say I did not accept that job. This was for a software engineer role.

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This is a great point. It’s a conversation about the place these companies should hold in our lives, in democracy and their ability to control information. I wish people would admit that directly and focus on that discussion.

Instead I see unproductive and backward conversations saying that google should pay publishers when in fact google brings more value to publishers via clicks than publishers bring to google. This line of thinking is missing the primary implications in my opinion.

This is cool. There’s a few National Scenic Trails missing from the US. You may also consider the Great Western Loop as a thru-hike although it’s technically a loop. There are some popular trails not included in the national scenic trail list such as Arizona Trail, Colorado Trail and Pinhoti Trail to name a few.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Loop

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationaltrailssystem/national-s...

I was also ghosted after passing hiring committee. The least they could have said was “sorry no updates right now”

Kinda pathetic on Apple that the thing we want the most is like 7+ years old design

That won’t work in all cases. For instance, if you get messages from devices which can be reimaged they may have clock skew in a period of time before they’re synchronized again.

I learned in 2020 that if you want to do something, you should do it. I’ve had a lot of lost opportunities in different categories. Saving money is important to me. But so is doing fun things and a lot of times those two are opposed. Like many things it’s about the trade offs.

Facebook can remove news and it will minimally effect engagement. I wonder what happens to the publishers when they lose 2.3BN clicks.

I don’t like FB as a company. However I have to admit, they are correct that news organizations benefit the most from this relationship. Why doesn’t google do the same thing? Don’t index news sites. Googles response seemed less effective than FB’s.

I agree. But this would reduce engagement and therefore profits. Do you see FB opting in to reducing profits?

This is happening a bit in Seattle too. I was able to negotiate a _decrease_ in rent after several years of 9% increases. 10% is the max allowed increase in Seattle if I understand the rules correctly.

Autopilot is still used today by first party Microsoft teams. Even some azure teams are using AP now.

“Defense in depth”. If you can protect an attack vector you should. Makes everything more difficult for attackers.

So is bing

My team wrote an analyzer to prevent use of DateTime.Now and enforce DateTime.UtcNow instead. Helps us prevent weird time bugs. Neat stuff. The code for it took me a while to get used to, lots of strange looking syntax and types.

Total catch 22. I’ve told recruiters something I’m excited about with my current role before and they’ve said “seems like you really like your team are you even serious about switching jobs”.....

I interviewed recently and didn’t get the job. I thought I did well enough so I wasn’t sure what went wrong. The recruiter told me exact detailed results for each interview including the hire / no hire outcome and why no hire for the no hire ones.

While I was disappointed to not get the job, it really gave me a sense of peace to know what went wrong and what I can do to improve.

I wish this was more common.

I work on azure compute on a core infrastructure team. I can say for certain that yes a cloud background check is required once you start on the team and this does not require citizenship. I know co-workers on many types of visas. This is a compliance measure. Azure is very into compliance.

For some of the other US gov stuff, Secret or Top Secret clearance is required. This does require citizenship and a lengthy clearance process. You will know if you’re doing this though as clearance is difficult to get so I’ve seen them hire a lot of people who already have clearance. These projects are for the most part separate from regular azure although they use the same technologies. Outside of PM these roles are mostly live site roles where access to control plane machines may be required to ensure proper operation of the platform.

ThinkPad T470P, Dell P4317Q (purchased myself, default company stuff is 2 2k 27" displays), HP z440 (6 cores, 64gb ram, 2x 1TB NVM e drives), hp z840 (12 cores, 128gb ram, 2x 1TB nvme drives). Code mechanical keyboard, logitech mx master 3. I have my own office too (for now)!

I used to do yoga in my office (have a private office with no windows) for a bit. I loved it but occasionally when someone knocked on the door things were awkward. If you can pull it off in a way where you won’t be interrupted I’d say go for it.

Microsoft tried to buy slack but they wouldn’t sell.

Couldn’t one say that sticking it out to study and practice for interviews is itself gritty?

Wow this is disappointing. I still use wunderlist for collaborative sharing of todos. It has not received major updates in forever but honestly it doesn’t need it. Still fully functional. It will be a sad day when it’s shut down.

I’m from PGH but live in Seattle now. I plan to move back in the next few years based on the favorability with cost of living differences. Especially when you consider life with a single income family. It’s not as cool as Seattle but it’s not that bad either so I think it’s a good compromise.

They discuss the fact that we are seeing linear gains from exponential investment in several fields (healthcare, semiconductors to name a few). This is a fascinating problem.

What’s the difference between SE and CS? At some schools with “computer engineering” that covers EE material related to Computers (circuits, CPU design, etc) as well as CS.

Probably happy. Stock is up 3% in after hours trading.

True. Underlying tech is the same though.

I have a gen 3 carbon x1 that is four years old and I still use it every day. Never replaced the battery and I still get 4-5 hours. It’s not powerful enough for dev work but perfect for web stuff and office.