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I had an interesting experience with triplebyte which wasn't as objectively bad as yours, but it also makes me skeptical of the company. First round was multiple choice questions, relatively str…

This is actually something I did one time, and I'm glad I did. I was enduring a scala phone-screen and the interviewer kept asking questions of the form "What's the #1 reason people use…

I'm downvoting this not because of the point it makes but because of the nature of the language. I think even though it's your legal right to express us-vs-them mentality "down-voting g…

I consider the notion that everyone has equal potential to be absurd. And I consider the notion that managers have much influence over an engineer's productivity to be absurd as well, other than …

This seems like linkbait to me. My understanding after looking at the document is that the heart of the issue is whether organizers of protests that lead to destruction of property should be liable fo…

Well I'm not defending Uber, nor the status quo of doing a political facade of investigation to cover your ass but I think you're making it out to be a little too simple. Uber has over 6,000…

Emotional self-control and consistency within a narrative adds huge credibility

It's not so much a number of heads, but what I reject is the common notion that somebody can be so many levels above a problem that they are absolved of responsibility. Let me ask you this: How m…

One of the most fundamental purposes of HR is to hear employee complaints, particularly legal ones and to get them solved to both moral and legal satisfaction. It sounds like this HR department did ev…

Am I the only one who thinks NYTimes should be a little more explicit in marking editorials? I'm sure among those of us familiar with newspapers it should be clear within a sentence that this is …

I think one senior person isn't enough in a case like this. What is described here is an entire malfunctioning department, which in my opinion, couldn't be attributed to anywhere below the C…

Have you read the article though? Often hearing one-side isn't enough to render a verdict, but in this case it's incredibly hard to hear Susan's side and witness the poise with which sh…

I think the problem is, and all the comments here seem to pretty much infer this, is that if the institution is corrupt, then the process of it cleansing itself will also be corrupt (Who's the sc…

This piece touches on a few different ideas: 1. Many workers are frustrated with their job, and the common thread is how they treated by other people 2. Investigates whether an organized upheaval of t…

>>> Nation-states have a duty to their citizens to be able to conduct offensive & defensive cyber operations; a necessary condition of doing so is the ability to stockpile & exploit v…

I think you lack imagination. Right now computer security may not seem like an essential scenario but consider a few of these cases: 1. Self driving cars getting hacked (and killing passengers?) 2. St…

No. It is a counter argument. When the US can destroy Uranium centrifuges in Iran [1] with a virus that got distributed through several 0 days in thumbdrives, that is extreme coordination that means t…

No, you work to get great stuff done. Whether or not your teammates are a worthwhile investment (or whether they even belong at the company at all) is a complicated calculation. In this case the autho…

Well, let's look at it from the "the jerk"'s perspective. How would feel if other people accomplished 1/10th what you did? What if they got paid 80% of what you got paid too? …

Well there are a lot of other forces. For one, I take pride in building great things. I code for work, and when on vacation I build side projects, because I enjoy it. Another is if I see a team trying…

Well, though I believe in the right for people to sue, I think people shouldn't just assume "company is smeared and guilty by association," until evidence is presented.

I vaguely agree with the premise of this post, which I would summarize is "The fear that paying individuals too much is empowering them to leave your organization is unfounded." My perspecti…

A worthy topic, especially given the known typical contentions between engineers and management (see Dilbert). However, the exact answer to how an manager can measure ones progress (if only internally…

Uh, I really disagree with this article's premise. The author identifies a page he added that was deleted, and his contribution was lost (on more than one occasion), and cites this as evidence of…

One thing I'd like to hear the official policy on is message privacy (i.e. is management reading your stuff?). That's a personal concern I have with slack.

Link to journal article: http://www.europeanneuropsychopharmacology.com/article/S0924... "What’s lacking is long-term data—important because study of other promising enhance…

Maybe you're unclear on exactly what a whistleblower means. Definition (by google): "a person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity." So by definition, …

There is no reliable method yet. But who is to say there won't eventually be one? You point out there numerous different dimensions of good coding. Consider an IQ test, it has many different cate…