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andrewducker) wrote2020-06-19 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2020-06-19 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 19-06-2020
- Warren Ellis Accused Of Sexual Coercion
- (tags:WarrenEllis abuse OhForFucksSake comics )
- UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple privacy-centric model
- (tags:apple google pandemic apps uk privacy )
- Trump Facebook Ad Openly Using a Nazi Symbol For "Political Prisoner"
- (tags:republicans nazis Holocaust wtf OhForFucksSake USA viaSwampers )
- NHS coronavirus app to be scrapped after only detecting 4% of contacts on iPhones
- (tags:privacy apple Google pandemic apps )
- Masked arsonist might've gotten away with it if she hadn't left Etsy review
- (tags:police review Etsy wtf )
- This kind of shit is why you can't trust it when people "Just want to ask a few questions"
- (tags:OhForFucksSake communication fraud )
- How are TV subtitles made? Are they done by a human or a machine? (I could not do this job)
- (tags:technology BBC subtitles )
- FizzBuzz: One Simple Computing Interview Question
- You'd be astounded how many people fail this. People going for computer jobs who actually can't program.
(tags:interviews jobs computers ) - Vegetarian? Jewish? Muslim? Government food parcels may not be much use to you
- (tags:food pork UK government )
- Social progress is at the heart of community politics
- (tags:politics community )
- UK health ministry has no records on Turkish PPE fiasco and won't say if files destroyed
- (tags:UK pandemic OhForFucksSake )
Re: You'd be astounded how many people fail this. People going for computer jobs who actually can't
One of my worst hiring mistakes was letting a less-technical (well, still with a math degree) colleague's very positive opinion plus a great-looking resume sway me in agreeing to the hire of a lovely guy who turned out to not easily understand the unremarkable code he was looking at. He didn't make it past the probationary period. On the flip-side the other worst mistake was hiring a guy who was very good but not quite as good as he thought.
Re: You'd be astounded how many people fail this. People going for computer jobs who actually can't
Reminds me of an intern we hired at a job about 20 years ago. *Very* smart guy -- totally aced these algorithmic questions, loved writing the most efficient possible code, and so on.
Problem was, he turned out to be *utterly* self-absorbed, and convinced that efficiency was the only thing that mattered. He couldn't write user-facing systems to save his life, and that super-efficient code turned out to be impenetrable and unmaintainable.
Suffice it to say, we didn't offer him a job at the end of that internship (to his loud dismay). And ever since, I've been a little suspicious of focusing too much on algorithms in interviews: I want to see evidence of code that is *good*, not just clever...