In my testing after compression json+xml were essentially identical for the same payload

In my experience, startup interviews are even less personal and more leetcode based than FAANG. aka solve leetcode hard in 40m on a whiteboard

In my experience interviewing people for small companies, I learn towards problems that aren't particularly hard but that demonstrate basic engineering fundamentals. I do value questions that give some insight into the interviewee's thought processes, but it's not necessary to give them a leetcode style question to get there. Startups that try to emulate Google hiring process are pretty clearly shooting themselves in the foot. Thoughtlessly copying successful companies is one of the banes of our industry.

Some companies are solving problems which might demand a higher level of algorithmic rigor in the interview, but it's always worked out for me on the hiring side to consciously avoid Google style questions. I don't think I've given the thumbs up to any truly 'bad hires' for many years, and I've given the thumbs up to many.

My experience has been the opposite of yours.

I interviewed at some startups from the HackerNews "Who's Hiring?" threads, and I had positive experiences with them. There wasn't much Leetcode BS, it was mostly talking with human beings. (Unfortunately, it turned out I was overqualified and overconfident for the jobs I applied to.. I didn't know that was even a possibility, haha.)

value vs variable. As someone that works on both Kotlin and Java daily, what is issue? 95% of the time I'm using val.

They also look completely different in the IDE

They should because it's very easy to miss when skimming over the code otherwise.

Flutter has similar tradeoffs as other cross platform tech such as React Native. Its great for simple apps that don't need platform specific UI or services.

Kotlin has its own stdlib which runs on multiple platforms other than JVM.

I've used Java, Python, Ruby, Go and Kotlin. Kotlin is def my favorite and goto. Do you have any specific examples/complaints?

Interesting, I find Kotlin just marginally better than Java. It doesn't have checked exceptions which is annoying. You can't use a simple return in lambda functions.

As for other languages: Python is ok for smaller stuff. I don't like Go. My favourite languages are probably Swift and Julia. And recently, I've grown to really like C++ although I used to hate it.

What do you mean by simple return? If you need granularity you can `return@scope`

> Kotlin has its own stdlib

Barely. You can't even read a file without java.io.

They just announced a bunch of additions to the stdlib (including I/O) at KotlinConf in order to better support multiplatform

This is the Android Dev blog. Flutter is completely separate competing team

Google can only do so many things. Every avenue needs to have a significant impact. Google is also a SV echo chamber. They have a lot of blind spots. Lots of room for smaller startups to carve a niche. After get large enough to get Google's full competitive attention another story.

Interesting. I recently swapped desktop from Windows to Linux because of the instability from updates. I have a macbook pro I also use which is generally faster and more stable.

Kotlin Native. Native UI, shared logic

You forgot Android Messages