No kidding, two sides of the same coin. Not claiming a sacred cow, but least MS has a viable business model outside of selling user data. Duck Duck Go is a better search engine than Bing or Google, anyway.

In what world do you get better results in ddg than Google search

That's nice and helpful, especially since tech interviews can be taxing. Sounds like they actually liked you and probably would've hired you under different circumstances.

I had terribly frustrating experiences interviewing. Mostly just taking a bunch of tests and interviewing two, three times, and not hearing back for months. What sticks out was a post-interview for a large company that aggressively recruited from my uni. When I asked how I could have improved the answer was, "You ask too many specific questions about the company and software platform. Be more focused on the interviews." "For example?" "It isn't appropriate to discuss how wages are adjusted according to location or salaried overtime policies or the tech stack... in an interview..." I took that one as the, "not gonna drink the Kool Aid." box being checked. Dodged a bullet there, though, seeing as her answers did not exactly inspire faith.

I wonder if there's a corpus labelling comments and posts based on the context of, "/s". Because labelling a comment as sarcastic is a great indicator the poster understands how sarcasm works.

Funny how the figure is ultimately inversely proportional to quality of content. Sites begin wanting great content so they can end by attracting the users who make awful content.

To be fair if you truly understand how to use git with a UI you can probably pick up the console within an hour or two of some cursory googling.

No kidding. I was blown away by the notion there are working web devs who don't understand HTTP or basic networking. I feel like this advice could be summed up in one sentence, "Create at least two good full stack web applications for your portfolio, put them in your git, use different languages for each and a minimal IDE." The best advice to stand out has already been said here, soft skills that complement fundamental technical competence. Once you're in an interview understanding basic human empathy and having a strong and apparent capacity to work with a team has way more persuasion than bullet points on your resume.

Management huh? Sounds like they were training to take credit for others work all along.

It isn't just students that are cheating, it goes all the way up to the top of academia. I know a professor that reviews for a major journal who says he can't even keep up with the submissions from Chinese researchers because most of the time the entire paper is plagerised, the submission is canned without a second glance. Fucking sucks for the legitimate Chinese students and researchers but I guess when, "if you can cheat, then cheat." becomes one of the most well known idioms in your culture, you can't be too surprised. Just have to try extra hard to break the mold, I guess.