hedin_hiervard
Re:Building and Publishing Games to Steam Directly from GitHub Actions
on Monday March 24, 2025 @03:27AM (#43458386)
How do you deal with Steam Guard code?
I solved the task with Claude 3.7 and got rejected by an AI startup
I was interviewing for a senior software engineering role at a startup. They assigned a take-home algorithmic problem with a presentation, estimating about half a day of work.For clarity: no restrictions were placed on tools, only on the deliverables. In previous technical interviews with other companies, I'd openly used AI—even running ChatGPT during live calls with engineers. Everyone seemed...
Re:When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition
on Saturday January 18, 2025 @04:36AM (#42747091)
I was once asked a very similar problem during a job interview for a position of a software engineer. I was offered to solve it on a piece of paper or orally. We ran out of time and they offered me to take it home. I did and I spent a few hours thinking about it. Google and ChatGPT were not able to produce better results than the intuitive answer, so I built a test program that confirmed the weird behaviour. After meditating for a few hours I was able to find the correct answer and I was indeed fascinated by this.
Do you also think it's too much for a usual interview?
Re:The resting places of giants (2014)
on Friday May 14, 2021 @07:06AM (#27152950)
What I find especially exciting here is the fact that the Geeeks were okay with the idea that Ahilles, Ajax and other guys from Trojan war stories were actually 4m high. You could never imagine that reading The Iliad.