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so I finally got confirmation that they intend to make me an offer, but have to wait a week for them to figure out what the offer is. I need to find out if everything in this company is this slow.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:oh that's trivial. black Adidas track jacket and pants with 3 straight white stripes - from belt and collar to cuffs respectively. jacket only with two side pockets, much like pants. a monochrome t-shirt underneath. white sharp-toed leather shoes (moccasin style, with no laces and mediun-height heel, shorter than half-boots. black socks and black leather beanie. 
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The Management posted:so I finally got confirmation that they intend to make me an offer, but have to wait a week for them to figure out what the offer is. I need to find out if everything in this company is this slow. slow is good, as long as they're also slow to fire you for underperformance
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May 13, 2017 00:11
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mishaq posted:slow is good, as long as they're also slow to fire you for underperformance we'll find out!
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May 13, 2017 00:19
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you guys weren't kidding about some of these hackerrank problems having awful descriptions. even when the actual problem is relatively clear, they tend to omit things like expected performance so i write an answer that i know is correct (since i usually go for a naive-but-correct implementation first) and i just get opaque results like "compiler message: time out". then you go into the dicussion and it's like "oh i have calculated that the test machine only has 128mb of memory so your merge sort needs to be in-place" and the like. if the challenge is counting inversions, don't make it a "most optimal merge sort" contest. make a separate problem category for that. as the clock ticks down to this interview i've decided not to try to actually finish problems anymore if i run into poo poo like that because i really just wanted them to remind me what algos id forgotten anyway. reheapify is way less complicated than i remember. i think i had it mixed up with rebalancing a binary search tree.
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May 16, 2017 15:33
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cis autodrag posted:you guys weren't kidding about some of these hackerrank problems having awful descriptions. even when the actual problem is relatively clear, they tend to omit things like expected performance so i write an answer that i know is correct (since i usually go for a naive-but-correct implementation first) and i just get opaque results like "compiler message: time out". then you go into the dicussion and it's like "oh i have calculated that the test machine only has 128mb of memory so your merge sort needs to be in-place" and the like. one of the problems is that a naive solution might work fine in C++ but won't in JavaScript. if the author wrote it originally in C then what they intend may not work in other languages on hackerrank if you're doing language specific stuff though yeah it's just badly documented
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May 16, 2017 15:50
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i'm really sick of how lovely finding jobs is these days and doing jobs and having to dress myself
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May 16, 2017 15:53
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also if every hr person died would anyone really care or miss them? the answer is no btw
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May 16, 2017 15:53
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Berious posted:also if every hr person died would anyone really care or miss them? the answer is no btw this is true for like 90% of all white-collar people tbf including myself
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May 16, 2017 16:05
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Berious posted:also if every hr person died would anyone really care or miss them? the answer is no btw actually i think the people who would be noticed the most if they disappeared are the admin and/or janitorial staff
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May 16, 2017 16:25
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like ive heard good managers described as productivity multipliers but dang, the administrative assistants in my office do that more than anyone else
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May 16, 2017 16:27
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hobbesmaster posted:one of the problems is that a naive solution might work fine in C++ but won't in JavaScript. if the author wrote it originally in C then what they intend may not work in other languages on hackerrank im mostly working in c# because im most familiar with it. i'm pretty aware that many of my solutions eat a gently caress ton of memory, but that shouldn't be a problem. in my mind if your solution is correct it should pass the test cases and bonus points can be had for improving runtime or whatever. Berious posted:also if every hr person died would anyone really care or miss them? the answer is no btw our company only has 2 hr people and it really shows. yesterday at all staff meeting our ceo decided it was a really important grammar tip to tell everyone that the singular "they" is wrong and forbidden and to never use it. i was sitting right next to like 4 nonbinary people who were extremely hurt. that's the kind of poo poo an hr department keeps from happening if it functions at all well.
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May 16, 2017 16:29
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you only have 2 hr people for 9000 employees? lol
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May 16, 2017 16:31
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Good secretaries are work multipliers everyone else creates work and then if you're really lucky helps you do it so at best its neutral.
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May 16, 2017 16:44
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Symbolic Butt posted:this is true for like 90% of all white-collar people tbf
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cis autodrag posted:im mostly working in c# because im most familiar with it. i'm pretty aware that many of my solutions eat a gently caress ton of memory, but that shouldn't be a problem. in my mind if your solution is correct it should pass the test cases and bonus points can be had for improving runtime or whatever. i thought singular they dated to Shakespeare but nope 13th century what's really amazing is how often these people still use singular they in conversation, because it's a valid, natural part of the language as for hackerrank it has to do with the resources they allow for the compile/run instance. it's a free service and CPU/memory time in the cloud is surprisingly expensive
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May 16, 2017 17:15
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cis autodrag posted:im mostly working in c# because im most familiar with it. i'm pretty aware that many of my solutions eat a gently caress ton of memory, but that shouldn't be a problem. in my mind if your solution is correct it should pass the test cases and bonus points can be had for improving runtime or whatever. why do they not like singular they?
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May 16, 2017 17:31
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default singular "he" was considered "more correct" starting in the 19th century. right now it's a right wing anti pc talking point
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May 16, 2017 17:37
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leper khan posted:why do they not like singular they? he or she probably hates sentences that sound natural.
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AnoHito posted:he or she probably hates sentences that sound natural. nice
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hobbesmaster posted:right now it's a right wing anti pc talking point And it's doing as well for them as whining about "Ms." did
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May 16, 2017 18:09
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leper khan posted:why do they not like singular they? because she's septuagenarian math major who is obsessed with being technically correct all the time and her favorite grammar book was written by a prescriptivist. she seriously never thinks before she speaks and our hr is so dysfunctional that nobody ever corrects her when she starts spouting nonsense like this. a year or so back she cracked a joke about men in dresses at staff meeting and when her staffers were told that it was transphobic (since nobody can contact her directly) they p much said "sorry we cant control judy". we have attempted to communicate to her that trans people exist many times (and for gently caress's sake, our companywide initiative this release is to better document and care for trans people) but she just refuses to move out of her safe bubble of black-and-white bullshit.
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May 16, 2017 18:29
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I think a lot of "successful" people refuse to change out of fear that they'll gently caress up whatever it is they did to make it in the first place basically c-level impostor syndrome
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May 16, 2017 18:42
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cis autodrag posted:you guys weren't kidding about some of these hackerrank problems having awful descriptions. even when the actual problem is relatively clear, they tend to omit things like expected performance so i write an answer that i know is correct (since i usually go for a naive-but-correct implementation first) and i just get opaque results like "compiler message: time out". then you go into the dicussion and it's like "oh i have calculated that the test machine only has 128mb of memory so your merge sort needs to be in-place" and the like. jesus christ this I "failed" a hackerrank timed interview because my solutions failed a few edge cases testing performance and I just moved onto the next problem as I didn't want to waste valuable time trying to engineer an optimal solution for a single problem.
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May 16, 2017 21:52
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lot of bad coders outing themselves here. your solutions should not melt down when encountering corner cases, that's part of writing good code.
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May 16, 2017 23:55
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my company has photos of whites dressed up like Mexicans for cinco de mayo on their glassdoor. photos that HR uploaded Lol
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May 16, 2017 23:59
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Flat Daddy posted:my company has photos of whites dressed up like Mexicans for cinco de mayo on their glassdoor. photos that HR uploaded Lol yikes
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May 17, 2017 00:28
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one company did the general interview and the technical interview in a single hour long phone call, I rambled too much in the general interview and then ran out of time on the technical question. Although right after that rejection email I got another email from an internal recruiter from another company so things keep on moving nailed my other phone interview today though, they're gonna fly me out.
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May 17, 2017 00:42
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The Management posted:so I finally got confirmation that they intend to make me an offer, but have to wait a week for them to figure out what the offer is. I need to find out if everything in this company is this slow. the company i just joined a couple months ago was super slow about stuff also, took them a couple weeks to get the offer to me, couple weeks for confirmation the offer was approved by higher level people, etc. turned out fine, ive never worked in finance before (didn't know what a broker/dealer was before i joined up) so maybe finance is just slow. either way, the slowness hasn't seemed to be an indicator of anything
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May 17, 2017 01:08
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yeah I just went through a series of in-person interviews for a place and the general consensus from the recruiter is good but they are dragging their feet responding and the wait is killllllling me 
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May 17, 2017 01:47
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Flat Daddy posted:my company has photos of whites dressed up like Mexicans for cinco de mayo on their glassdoor. photos that HR uploaded Lol mexicans arent a race and can be white, racist 
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Sweeper posted:the company i just joined a couple months ago was super slow about stuff also, took them a couple weeks to get the offer to me, couple weeks for confirmation the offer was approved by higher level people, etc. turned out fine, ive never worked in finance before (didn't know what a broker/dealer was before i joined up) so maybe finance is just slow. either way, the slowness hasn't seemed to be an indicator of anything if it's a big finance company it will probably take several weeks to get all your background checks done, you might have to get fingerprinted too
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qirex posted:if it's a big finance company it will probably take several weeks to get all your background checks done, you might have to get fingerprinted too that was a separate delay, the background check was before the offer, the fingerprinting (gently caress you finra) was after being hired yeah things don't move quick
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The Management posted:lot of bad coders outing themselves here. your solutions should not melt down when encountering corner cases, that's part of writing good code. when you have 5 minutes to write an algorithm, that really shouldn't be a concern Iverron fucked around with this message at 02:24 on May 17, 2017 |
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The Management posted:lot of bad coders outing themselves here. your solutions should not melt down when encountering corner cases, that's part of writing good code. im talking about a problem failing because of an undocumented memory restriction, not due to corner cases. if memory complexity matters it should be documented.
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Iverron posted:when you have 5 minutes to write an algorithm, that really shouldn't be a concern yeah when you're pressed for time, trying to describe your thinking over a crappy phone connection, and way more nervous than you should be, basic stuff can get a lot harder
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aaarg nyc fulltime job wants me to move to the city instead of offering remote, which is just unworkable for the salary they're offering. nice place with a good name but drat if I want to live in the city with a family for 10^5 figgies welp there goes another one. sad too since i know their stuff really well
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PierreTheMime posted:aaarg nyc fulltime job wants me to move to the city instead of offering remote, which is just unworkable for the salary they're offering. nice place with a good name but drat if I want to live in the city with a family for 10^5 figgies poo poo I'd live just about anywhere for 100000 figgies
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Cocoa Crispies posted:poo poo I'd live just about anywhere for 100000 figgies I'd work at Google for 101 figgies.
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Doom Mathematic posted:I'd work at Google for 101 figgies. I'd work for ISIS for 101 figgies
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