darrenkopp

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by darrenkopp 1y ago
I interview people regularly. These are easy to detect… not in a direct way but i can tell when you are being assisted by AI. 3 so far this month out of 12, for those who were going to ask how frequently.
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
i am the same except i use music (lyrics and all) to drown everything else out. i don’t. price the lyrics at all, but my brain is processing them because every now and then i suddenly break out of focus and am like “wait, what the hell did
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
> Interviewing should be more about avoiding bad candidates than finding the best candidate. > This guy fails coding interviews. Then he gives coding interviews, but the people he selects based on these interviews are a mixed bag. Bec
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
Actually there's another job before that, I just don't list my full employment history. Before that was VP of Engineering. That's just my final title, however. I started that as a normal engineer. And then as a senior enginee
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
> Can we stop calling it "failing" when a company decides you're not a good fit? If you go on a date and don't get asked for a 2nd, did you fail the date? You're not just what they're looking for right now;
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
Yep, that was my same approach as well.
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
I don't think it's wildly optimistic, but perhaps we are thinking about it in different ways. I don't think I could teach someone how to implement each data structure in an hour, but I could easily go over maps/queues&#x
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
This is pretty interesting, I hadn't heard of this approach before. I'll have to give it a try some time.
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
Adding another comment here, because this is part of the reason why I wrote this article. > These kind of articles make me sad because I (and many other interviewers I've worked with) try to make it clear that this isn't a test
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
If I'm not cut out to work in your environment, that's fine. I do disagree with your other conclusions, however. I'm not bad at communication, I'm bad at verbal communication while simultaneously trying to solve a proble
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
I, personally, cannot _think_ and _talk_ at the same time. It's just a stream of half-sentences, many of which my brain has already moved on from because what I originally thought won't work. After writing this article it became v
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
The data itself is ordered (which is why the task is to print them in order), but the order you receive the values is can happen in any order (ie the processing was split into multiple threads and each thread is posting back the results fro
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
Yeah interview before Joel was base -2 conversion. Joel's interview was mostly a chat and we mostly talked about my dog (and other things I'm sure but I only remember talking about dogs).
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
Sorry, I was paraphrasing the question and not giving every detail that I received. They also stated that there are no gaps, the values increment by one, and start at zero.
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by darrenkopp 2y ago
it's not impossible to solve, but there are situations like that which make any solution not work, which was a follow up question
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Coding interviews are stupid (ish)(darrenkopp.com)
260 points by darrenkopp 2y ago|650 comments
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Coding interviews are stupid (ish)(darrenkopp.com)
3 points by darrenkopp 2y ago|1 comments
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
They likely make it better. I rarely use my brakes unless I have to brake suddenly.
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
> The ChatGPT maker is developing tools with the US Defense Department on open-source cybersecurity software, and has had initial talks with the US government about methods to assist with preventing veteran suicide, Anna Makanju, the com
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
I believe that the title is expecting the reader to infer that the measurement is about plastic waste, not water quantity, which commonly is measured in distance.
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
Anecdotal, but I'm sure this is related to everyone adopting Tesla's charging standard, not just because the connector is superior. I have a L2 charger installed in my home, so my life is pretty easy, but even if I didn't the
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
To me, that reads more like Figma is using OpenAI for functionality (which inevitably means they have to provide information for prompting) more than it reads they are letting OpenAI use Figma data to make their products better.
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
haha no problem 1. 18 years total, 3 jobs (9 years, 4 years, 5 years). 2. I did choose to relocate for my 3rd job. I was specifically looking for companies in new locations where I wanted to live. I will specify that my job's locations
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
yes, it makes reference to this allegation.
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
Since everyone else is replying yes, I'll give the single non-useful response I guess. 1. No 2. N/A 3. N/A
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
#3 lessons with time I think. I can slip them on basically as fast unless my foot is damp after the shower. #1 and #2 were on my list of cons too, it's a universal problem. For laundry, I try to pull mine off toes first before I put th
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
Having worn toe socks for 5+ years now, it's one of the greatest decisions I've made. I mostly only wear Injinji now, but I have tried other brands in the past. Here's my pro's and cons list from my experience. 1. Pro: t
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
post your public key to github, the rest takes care of itself.
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
I'm 100% in for this purely for the fact that it looks like it will actually tell you / provide a button to perform the action. I am a Windows fan and use it as my primary operating system, but I cannot tell you how irrationally a
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by darrenkopp 3y ago
I can confirm this as well. I started seeing 500 errors intermittently when trying to view pages, so I checked status page and saw everything was green. Status page started showing the incident within about 3 minutes of when I started seein

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