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Shaman Linavi posted:the worst interview i ever had was with Blizzard. they opened with "so if you could be any superhero, who would you be?" and i just froze up and mumbled something about not really keeping up on my superheroes and it was all down hill from there. hemo goblin
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The Hemo-Goblin was a vampire created to help a white-supremacy group eliminate non-whites. He is notable mainly for infecting members of the New Guardians with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS
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Jun 19, 2017 03:11
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i would have just shouted INUK CHUCK INUK CHUCK INUK CHUCK and knocked over my chair as I bailed.
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Shaman Linavi posted:the worst interview i ever had was with Blizzard. they opened with "so if you could be any superhero, who would you be?" and i just froze up and mumbled something about not really keeping up on my superheroes and it was all down hill from there.
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Shaman Linavi posted:the worst interview i ever had was with Blizzard. they opened with "so if you could be any superhero, who would you be?" and i just froze up and mumbled something about not really keeping up on my superheroes and it was all down hill from there. "i don't pay attention to dumb nerd poo poo" is a powerful answer deserving of respect
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Jun 19, 2017 03:39
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RISCy Business posted:"i don't pay attention to dumb nerd poo poo" is a powerful answer deserving of respect mega agreedo especially applied to programming questions
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Jun 19, 2017 03:40
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"I would be batman because his parents are dead"
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Jun 19, 2017 03:56
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cool av posted:What's your greatest weakness? that type of thinking is similar to how a salesperson is supposed to be qualifying leads so it makes some sense
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Jun 19, 2017 04:02
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what are the rules on being quoted by stymie can someone fill me in
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Jun 19, 2017 04:21
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the rules are nobody is interested in what stymie has to say so you're probably the only one who noticed
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Jun 19, 2017 04:26
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While conducting an Ops interview I mentioned that we were converting to systemd, and the candidate clenched his teeth and said "I have very strong opinions about systemd". He could barely contain his rage. That's a huge red flag to me; I get that people can get fanboy/anti-fanboy about various tools and languages, but the business needs someone who can deal with whatever is thrown at them. You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want. We don't want someone who'll just whine and complain that they have to use X, or will spend half their time trying to convince everyone that X is good/bad.
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minato posted:While conducting an Ops interview I mentioned that we were converting to systemd, and the candidate clenched his teeth and said "I have very strong opinions about systemd". He could barely contain his rage. Lmfao. Should've probed the poo poo out of him and make him look like an utter tool.
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Jun 19, 2017 06:03
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[after being demolished by an earthshattering own] uhh...uhhhhh.... one sec *discreetly flips out smartphone and loads the forums*
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Jun 19, 2017 06:07
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another good one is letting a candidate react to MacBooks being the standard an interview is a great time to lecture your potential future coworkers on the evils of Apple
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OldAlias posted:The Hemo-Goblin was a vampire created to help a white-supremacy group eliminate non-whites. He is notable mainly for infecting members of the New Guardians with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS that colors some memories I have of a former mod in a weird light also lol if you're not always thinking when writing a parser that every shortcut you take is going to become a support ticket in the form of '<tangentially related thing> is broken pls fix'
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Jun 19, 2017 06:23
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minato posted:While conducting an Ops interview I mentioned that we were converting to systemd, and the candidate clenched his teeth and said "I have very strong opinions about systemd". He could barely contain his rage lol
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qhat posted:It might surprise some but I have actually genuinely interviewed people who have entirely falsified their work experience and qualifications and pre-cooked their answers from glassdoor in an attempt to get an easy paycheck. This is why interviewers ask basic dumb questions and get people to explain themselves. Imagine a fictional gameshow (we'll call it 'Fake Profession Or Not') where there are three contestants: One is a fake [profession], another is a real [profession], (here [profession] can be any profession like programmer, doctor or lawyer). The thrd contestant and the third contestant doesn't know which one is fake and which one is real. The third contestant has to ask questions of the first two and at the end of the round, he has to guess which one is real and which one is fake. The problem is that I can't see this game show making is past the pilot episode because it would be so utterly lopsided because I imagine the contestant guessing correctly nearly 100% of the time making the gameshow boring to watch.
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Iverron posted:another good one is letting a candidate react to MacBooks being the standard i dont like their keyboards thats about all i have to say about that
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Iverron posted:another good one is letting a candidate react to MacBooks being the standard The place I'm interviewing for tomorrow gives macbook pros to employees and apparently you get to use a 27 incher at the office (still vastly inferior to 2x24").
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Jun 19, 2017 07:24
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crafting your interviews to try and weed out candidates with "fake" credentials is essentially tacit admission you weed out indian/pakistani applicants because you don't think their schooling is good enough/are racist
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Jun 19, 2017 07:29
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I wouldn't take a job with any place that wouldn't give me a mac to use because I'm not an animal. I also don't work for companies that use technologies that I hate. but I'm not mad at them for being dumb and bad, I just ask them what they use and if it's not for me I tell them no thanks.
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Jun 19, 2017 07:35
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I don't really care tbh because most of what I'll probably ever be doing is ssh'ing into things anyway
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Jun 19, 2017 07:39
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the only time i cared about what machine i used at work was when i was given an hp laptop with a horrendous screen. this was 2014 but the screen had the viewing angle of a 90s laptop. I rectified that problem immediately.
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Stymie posted:crafting your interviews to try and weed out candidates with "fake" credentials is essentially tacit admission you weed out indian/pakistani applicants because you don't think their schooling is good enough/are racist  please go on
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apseudonym posted:
do not respond to stymie
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Jun 19, 2017 09:12
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qhat posted:do not respond to stymie It's racist to question my credentials as a poo poo poster
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Jun 19, 2017 09:13
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It's actually very easy to only hire white people without having a coding test durimg the hiring process. You just say literally anything other than "they weren't white" when asked why a non-white person wasn't hired.
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Jun 19, 2017 09:46
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Why on earth though would you hire an expensive white man from the bay area when you can just employ Sanjeev from Bangalore for a quarter of the price
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Jun 19, 2017 09:52
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*Nodding Sagely* Yes if it weren't for the technical tests, all these non-white candidates wouldn't have expereinced any racial discrimination at all during the hiring process!
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bad culture fit
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Black man, aces technical test: "sorry but you're not the right culture fit" White man, lies about experience, flubs technical test: "well there's a few issues with your answers but I'm sure we'll be able to fill in the gaps, welcome aboard!" *Really smart guy, thinking hard* After carefully analyzing these two scenarios I've come to the conclusion that the racism was introduced in to the hiring process at the time the technical test was administered.
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School of How posted:Imagine a fictional gameshow (we'll call it 'Fake Profession Or Not') where there are three contestants: One is a fake [profession], another is a real [profession], (here [profession] can be any profession like programmer, doctor or lawyer). The thrd contestant and the third contestant doesn't know which one is fake and which one is real. The third contestant has to ask questions of the first two and at the end of the round, he has to guess which one is real and which one is fake. this exists for chefs on the cooking network IIRC - only difference is that the judges are always the same two or three people
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Iverron posted:another good one is letting a candidate react to MacBooks being the standard
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The Leck posted:on the other hand, i've had coworkers in the past who insisted on macbooks for C# development, since developers use macbooks, PERIOD. they were actually pretty upset when they found out that they'd have to set up a windows vm for their everyday tasks. I've written C# on macs for Unity projects. The intellisene isn't too bad, but debugging is a 🐻. especially multiple threads. Separately, one of my coworkers uses monodevelop on windows because he doesn't like VS.
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qhat posted:The place I'm interviewing for tomorrow gives macbook pros to employees[…] macbooks pro
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minato posted:While conducting an Ops interview I mentioned that we were converting to systemd, and the candidate clenched his teeth and said "I have very strong opinions about systemd". He could barely contain his rage. lol, raging about systemd in an interview is p good, that's like trashing your current job or coworkers a simple trap which can be avoided just by not doing it
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Cocoa Crispies posted:macbooks pro macsbook pro
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The Leck posted:on the other hand, i've had coworkers in the past who insisted on macbooks for C# development, since developers use macbooks, PERIOD. they were actually pretty upset when they found out that they'd have to set up a windows vm for their everyday tasks. That's what I've used daily here for the last four years. It's been just fine for web dev as long as I had the resources for Parallels and has made what little iOS dev I do a lot easier of course. I guess I wouldn't want to do Unity or anything on it.
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The Management posted:macsbook pro is that the hot new chuck tingle book
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i don't object to having to code during an interview, I just think the coding should be vaguely relevant to the job you know how many recursive algorithms I use as an embedded dev? none, because that is the correct amount to use in embedded development. but 2 of 4 phone interviews for embedded developer positions required recursive searching/traversing of some data structure
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