Hysterisis

You pretty obviously can’t do whatever you want. From a legal perspective you’ll be arrested and prosecuted if you commit a crime. From a philosophical perspective you have a moral duty to do good, by virtue of the intrinsic definition of good (whatever that may be in your ethical framework). Even if your ethical system says you should only do what makes you happy, you still have a duty to fulfill that goal as it is internally equivalent to the concept of good.

Maintaining your level of aggression and resentment can’t be healthy.

You’re purposefully misrepresenting what I said to satisfy your preconceptions.

You generally aren’t asked to implement a specific algorithm. You’re asked to solve a broad open ended question.

You get 45 minutes, sometimes more if the interviewers can see that you’re close.

These days Google offers the option of a chromebook instead of a whiteboard.

I enjoyed my interview at Google. They asked some generic questions, but also some stuff specific to my niche.

No one is expecting perfect code. I ended up saying something along the lines of “let’s just pretend the method is called isPresent() because I forget” to every interviewer.

A few years ago I was working for a QA department and trying to apply my programming skills wherever I could. There was a weekly report that someone in upper management produced to send to their peers, which was basically two filtered and cross referenced CSV dumps. I briefly took over that task while the manager was away, and was able to automate it pretty easily. I even produced a small GUI that made it easy for the manager to use later. Ultimately the manager chose to keep doing it by hand for 40 hours per week. I left that organisation a few months later.

Terms like “groundbreaking” and “game changer” get thrown around so much now that they’ve lost all meaning.

For some reason I get a Hyperion vibe from these tweets.

Even as someone who hates typical definitions of professionalism, sitting in a kindergarten like room and having DNMs with my colleagues sounds like one of the least professional things I can think of.

Seems like it would be really annoying to service if something breaks and needs to be replaced.

That’s pretty sweet. I’m tempted to build some kind of Android UI wrapper for it.