Bahamut

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by Bahamut 3y ago
Interestingly enough, I believe while Kamelot was founded in the US, most of the members are from Europe currently. One thing I learned ~15 years ago was that Nightwish commissioned lyrics from lyricists (one such commissioned person told m
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by Bahamut 3y ago
The trademark dispute was with the Rhapsody streaming service - I don't think it was ever announced, but I suspect the streaming service paid them money to change their name since the band definitely came first.
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by Bahamut 4y ago
This is a kind of interesting change to see FB make to me (I had heard about this a couple of weeks ago from my brother, who was one of the ICs affected by the layoffs), as recently while I've been promoted into management at a differe
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by Bahamut 4y ago
Love most of the advice I see here, but there's a few quibbles I have here. > You’re going to have to grind Leetcode. Yes, even the dynamic programming problems. One trend I've been seeing is the MANGAs have been moving away fr
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by Bahamut 4y ago
One of the paths to financial success in the Bay Area is dual income households - the high pay for those families make it financially a no brainer to live in the area. The compensation though makes take home pay far better than anywhere els
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by Bahamut 4y ago
Where do you get that she is a staunch liberal? I see in Wikipedia this mention > Writing in The Guardian, Moira Donegan called Weiss a "professional rightwing attention seeker" and disputed her claim that social media's i
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by Bahamut 4y ago
I work at a non-Google FAANG - from what I've seen in my org, "CS fundamentals" (which I assume is some proxy statement of sorts for leetcode-style interviews with emphasis on data structure/algo questions & knowledg
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by Bahamut 4y ago
I've heard of airline companies doing similar when interviewing flight attendants - United will fly you to Newark to interview, but often there will be people shadowing candidates to see how they behave during their travels and that fe
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by Bahamut 4y ago
This sounds very shortsighted. My own grad school happens to have a top 4 CS program (UIUC), but I went there for math (was top 15 at the time, not sure how it has done since). Some of the stories of people I met in my grad program were fas
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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results(apple.com)
94 points by Bahamut 4y ago|158 comments
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by Bahamut 4y ago
My org is generally anti-leetcode so I can’t speak for your experiences - the only data structure/algorithm questions you may encounter in an interview with my org is likely practical questions (i.e. problems we have had to solve on th
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by Bahamut 4y ago
I'm a senior engineer at a FAANG who is close to reaching staff by promotion - I've conducted enough interviews over the past 5 years at my current company to at least understand how my org operates. How the process for us works i
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by Bahamut 4y ago
My coding question I give (in the occasion I am called upon to ask one to candidates) typically is not particularly unique, but practical - if someone wants to study for it, it doesn't really give them a notable edge given all the poss
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by Bahamut 4y ago
I can definitely tell you that our recruiters do not tell candidates to do that.
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by Bahamut 4y ago
But significant interview prep hurts the primary job of the interviewer, which is to evaluate whether candidates would work well within the team/org - I don't mind if candidates do preparation or not, but the point isn't to t
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by Bahamut 4y ago
Talk with your manager, and see if you can come up with a plan to take a long vacation (I'd recommend at least 2-3 weeks, if not longer depending on how you handle burnout historically & what the nature of the burnout is) - at wors
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by Bahamut 4y ago
Unless you view it as not worth the effort. I've done two onsites with Google in the past essentially YOLOing it (I only study my interview failures because I view otherwise as an inefficient use of my time) - first time did terrible,
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by Bahamut 4y ago
As someone who has done a lot of interviewing from the interviewer side at my current FAANG, it's usually obvious when someone has seen the question before - in the debriefs, the candidates who were honest have it noted out loud to the
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by Bahamut 4y ago
In the Marine Corps you never do a sir sandwich - that gets corrected in boot camp or beforehand for the few that do do that.
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by Bahamut 4y ago
As an American born Asian myself, the "unofficial" quota system process colleges use is painful to me - I was an extremely academic high performing student before college, netting national level recognition in some areas with a lo
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by Bahamut 5y ago
I know virt and Shnabubula from the video game music rearrangement scene - both are crazy talented artists. I'm still holding my physical copy of this album from the kickstarter - pretty cool to see it go free & surface here.
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Apple Reports First Quarter Results(apple.com)
97 points by Bahamut 5y ago|206 comments
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by Bahamut 5y ago
I am currently at one of the FAANGs for almost 5 years, and even got promoted from mid level to senior in that time - I did not ever do any leetcode grinding, nor was it a major focus during my onsite with the team I joined. I also do not a
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by Bahamut 5y ago
Their numbers seem kinda low looking at levels.fyi
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by Bahamut 5y ago
> The real answer is because manhole covers are mass produced and manufacturing circular ones is usually easier and cheaper than the alternatives. My understanding is the primary reason is because circular covers cannot fall into the hol
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by Bahamut 5y ago
Samsung (and Korean companies in general) isn't exactly known for work-life balance either (source: uncle was an exec and a sibling was a senior engineer there).
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by Bahamut 5y ago
I don't recall needing to take that long. I'm someone who was pretty embedded in the AngularJS/Angular ecosystem for 5 years before (I was a major contributor to the open source ecosystem & was an early pioneer/advoc
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results(apple.com)
85 points by Bahamut 5y ago|135 comments
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by Bahamut 5y ago
I found Google Maps worse than Apple Maps in both Japan and South Korea, it's kind of crazy that's the case given that Google has had such a lead. It makes me wonder whether Google is investing much into these products anymore.
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by Bahamut 5y ago
Cher is a real employee, but anything more I'll leave unsaid out of respect for her privacy. Apple employees can easily look up other employees, and there are easy ways to tell whether someone is an Apple employee should they choose to

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