Clay Mitchell

Mediocre coder, bad basketball player, worse guitar player.

[Clay Mitchell @clay_mitchell]

competitive with what exactly, @talentifyio ?

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companies who won’t don’t provide feedback on employment application rejections but then send a survey asking for your feedback: 👎

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when did going from recruiter straight to technical interviews become a thing?

can I talk to someone who knows the position please?

[Clay Mitchell @clay_mitchell]

@adamdotdev “it depends”

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Woo buddy, if you're looking for a job and you use InMail, you can pretty much be guaranteed it's not a good fit for you!

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@neetcode1 the linked problem for the insertion sort is no good - you can't use what you just learned to solve the problem because it doesn't mean the O(nlog(n)) requirements.

(loving the course otherwise 👍)

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ok is @LeetCode broken? no way i came up with the fastest approach ever

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well that's nice

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tell me what you do for work using only gifs

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Tell me what you do for work, using only gifs.

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@igorbenic @TheJackForge yeah, I recently was talking to someone looking to pay 80k for a dev.

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@JohnRodkey @deleteman123 this is too nuanced 🤣

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@Jon__Brady I completely expected this.

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@Jon__Brady We appreciate your sacrifice

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@Jon__Brady Can’t be disappointed if you don’t see it

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@Jon__Brady what are the 👀👀👀👀ing?

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@RomSteady So in guess I bombed it, and was trying to describe to my basketball buddy the situation. “It’s like being in a tryout but they want you to shoot free throws - except with your offhand (which you’d never actually do) and the lights are out and you didn’t know if it went in”. Fun!

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Software Engineers - any recommended sites for interview prep and/or or coding tests?

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@RomSteady So I think I got it, used the basic logic that most libs use, even though it’s something nobody would actually ever write. The interviewer (some dude with a photographic memory who did encryption) never gave feedback other than “how would you improve it”, like, come on man. 2/

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@RomSteady I suck at all those algorithm ones, so it might be useful.

I frankly think those sorts of tests are terrible and are not a realistic proxy for testing someone’s absolute to build good software. alas…