The truth the employers won't admit is that there is just too much money in this industry for very little effort.
Why do you think that famous employees get straight offers without doing anything verses many engineers still getting leetcoded and get left with no offer despite being over-qualified?
Soham was able to pass most programming assessments so well, the folks at bookface were discussing to ban him from applying to their startups.
You can see that another system has been created to make sure that the role is reserved for friends of the founder, ex-collegues of another team over an extremely qualified engineer out of no where.
> As with everything, it depends. Live coding interviews work. They’re not the best candidate experience, but they work at Meta, Google scale, minimizing false positives better than most other formats. What makes them stressful is the lack of interviewer training and the abstract, puzzle-like nature of the problems, which you can really only solve if you’ve spent time studying (e.g., LeetCode) or you’re fresh out of college or academia.
They work (for some) and leet-code weeds out the frauds that really cannot problem solve and assesses those who have not built anything to show to justify not doing it and can be applied to companies that are joining from an acquisition.
> The perfect solution, in my view, would be an assessment where the candidate feels relaxed and able to perform at their best, knowing that every other candidate in the pool has the same constraints in terms of time and tooling. It’s a tough problem to solve.
And that would be the fairest one which is to do the leetcode interview in person on a projected whiteboard and pair programming with the interviewer.
I don't think Java (when it was owned by Sun) nor .NET (even currently) run the risk of a VC "our incredible journey" event causing "barrel bending" nor the backing company running out of money. In the first flavor, they'd want their pound of flesh and the "our new compiler pricing is ..." would be no good. In the latter, even if they actually opened the platform on the way out, it still would require finding a steward who could carry the platform forward, which is a :-( place to be if you have critical code running upon it
I guess the summary is that neither Java [at the time] nor .NET were profit centers for their owners, nor their only reason for existing
They certainly were, because no one other than a few hardlines were writing Java or C# and VB code in bare bones editors and compiling from command line, as only the bare bones SDKs were free beer, and for the desktop.
IDEs, implementations for embedded and phones, were all paid products, IDEs by developers or their employers, the others by OEMs.
My point is the early days, JCafe, Visual Age, Visual Studio, Forte, before free beer IDEs for them became common.
Java side with Eclipse/Netbeans, .NET side with the Visual Studio Express editions.
Yes, and there is a reason for that: Both are deeply integrated in Microsofts ecosystem, and whether one likes that or not, that ecosystem is the dominant platform for desktop computing, especially in commercial settings.
Logistics not really much better because you need visas, which the UK govt is now in the process of restricting, unless you're Irish. Access to capital is arguably better than Europe but not better than the US. I guess it could be an option if you want physical proximity to Europe or if you make physical goods for the European market because the UK still has a 0 tariff agreement with the EU.
I think it means literally nothing for start-ups. It's just a slightly better than expected economic result for one quarter.
As a founder, my experience is that the US is a much easier place to raise capital than the UK or Europe. But your experience is going to vary based on the kind of business you are in and where your customers are located.
I think really it means not that much - if you want to start a startup then really you need to think about access to capital and the US is still far ahead there (and growth figures like these don't really change the game.)
You can find reviews of hundreds of CLI And TUI programs, some great, others barely known and clearly forgotten. The last review is from 2015. Some reviews are very short, others are more involved.
The site is a blog with a tagline "Adventures with lightweight and minimalist software for Linux". The author K.Mandla is opinionated and has certain preferences for such programs like [1].
I have not looked at the site in years, but if you are willing to explore, this could be a fun option to find a variety of these tools.
Why do you think that famous employees get straight offers without doing anything verses many engineers still getting leetcoded and get left with no offer despite being over-qualified?
Soham was able to pass most programming assessments so well, the folks at bookface were discussing to ban him from applying to their startups.
You can see that another system has been created to make sure that the role is reserved for friends of the founder, ex-collegues of another team over an extremely qualified engineer out of no where.