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The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee
An anonymous reader writes "It may be hard for Facebook HR infrastructure to keep up with the rapid growth of the company, so scheduling and performing Skype screening interviews with the prospective new developers appears deteriorating into disorderly jumble. In a blog post, a recent candidate for a development job at Facebook has shared his excruciation at coordinating and then having this preliminary interview, pointing out the unhelpfulness of HR staff at Facebook during all stages of the process."
Maybe Facebook does not want help. That's a good thing, because no one should want to help Facebook.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
I could see going to work for Facebook before the IPO, but now? You've missed the chance to get rich. Working for Facebook seems to be crunch hell in giant bullpens with bad bosses.
Facebook seems to have peaked in terms of users and traffic.Now it's all about "monetizing the user base", i.e. shoving as many ads as possible at the users and selling tracking data.
HR is always a bunch of ass-sucking sycophants. That is true in every industry. Never count on meeting an intelligent person is HR. And NEVER count on them as an ally -- they are there for the company, not you. They ONLY time they might take your side is (if they are capable of understanding you) when you explain to them their managers have fucked up so badly, they will likely lose a lawsuit.
Fuck HR. It is always a pink ghetto.
This should come as no surprise though. In these modern times of recession and people being made unemployed due to robots it really is a buyer's market and employers can pull as much "shit" as they like and still have a queue of people outside the door looking for jobs.
- Email problems with the HR drone
- Skype call interview organised for a time not convenient for him
- Network issues during the call
Um, cry me a river?
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
it seems if the problem is stress, i would consider reaching out to a social support network and/or a counselor. i can only tell you that many people have survived much worse, and even discovered shards of happiness along the way. good luck.
It was horrendous. Not the best speaker at the best of times, it was a total flop over video. The format made it hard to read body language and get a feel for where the interview was going, the lag made it a PITA with people talking over each other and also made it hard to read how the discussion was going. In the end, though I was well qualified for the position, I realized I had not made a single good case for why they should hire me. Naturally, I didn't get a call back and I couldn't blame them. I would avoid doing it again in future if at all possible.
from the rant:
"I've been using the best Internet connection available -- the wired LAN at the Israel Institute of Technology. (To give an impression of its network infrastructure: the Institute had been allocated two of the handful Israeli class-B IP ranges.) On the day of the interview, I've made a test call to a friend in Israel (some 120km away from the Institute), to confirm that the call quality is perfect. Nevertheless, when the interviewer called me, I couldn't hear him properly"
Does he have any idea how the internet works? Just because you have a good connection to another part of the country does not mean you get good connection to the rest of the world.
I don't think this guy understands much about how corporate networking works. If he's a developer, I suppose he doesn't need to, but maybe he could check into details before writing:
"isn't it worthwhile for Facebook recruiting to prepare for such a case, and make the interviewer able to switch to a different Facebook IP range, to give Skype routing a second chance?"
Yeah, um, I don't know of *any* company that would set up their HR staff for such a scenario. And this interviewee doesn't seem to understand how Internet routing works. Assuming the particular Facebook HR office is BGP multi-homed, the Facebook NetOps staff would have to determine what IP address the interviewee is connecting with and then modify BGP local-preference for that AS number to use a different ISP outbound. Or, have two networks with different outbound ISPs available at every desk with staff trained to switch between them.
It would be utterly ludicrous to do something like this for an interview.
What's surprising is they didn't try another option like Google Hangouts. Perhaps as a Facebook competitor, it isn't an option. Did the interviewee not have a speakerphone? He mentions being unable to both type and talk... I think they solved that problem in the 1980's.
Vote Libertarian
You think an hr rep knows and has access to a second set of ip's to route Skype calls? On top of that you obviously were being interviewed for an entry position and were disappointed they didn't ask you harder stuff? Sorry Stephen hawking maybe next time they will purchase a solo oc3 to route your interview across the world on and ask you quantum computing questions. I could only imagine what working with you on a team would be like.
Especially the part about preparation, why should the company give you time to prepare an interview? If I were the company, I want to see the real you, not you with a month of preparation.
I was confused in reading the write-up. If the interview was scheduled three months in advance, why did he say that he only had one day to prepare for the "CS" style interview? Where did this "December Interview Preparation Tips" come from? Only partial bits of data are given, none of which support the poster's side of the story.
And what phone were you using that didn't have speaker phone capabilities? Nearly all land line phones do that, as well as all mobile phones. Skype crap happens all the time, even on perfect connections. You roll with it. And, if you can't, then you'll likely have problems in a technology company.
In summary, this reads as: "HR department had too many applicants and I slipped between the cracks for scheduling, then I bombed my interview but it really wasn't my fault. Really!"
The HR rep told him in October that his interview would be in December and he procrastinated prepping until he knew the exact date. Yet he bitches about not having enough time to prepare? Also, I don't understand why he couldn't type and talk at the same time if they ended up having to use a phone call for audio. All cell phones have a speaker phone function and if he was using a landline he could've held the phone to his ear with his shoulder.
His whole blog post is just a giant whine-fest. If he can't handle the stress of the unknowns in an interview then how can he expect to handle the stress of working at a fast-paced company like Facebook?
Many share their good and bad interview experiences with {Google, FB, MS, Apple etc} on a daily base. Why is this one getting any extra attention?
Folks conducting interviews at large as well as small companies are simply sitting at their desks, using the phone and computing resources available to them. I haven't worked at a company yet (including at the largest networking company on the planet) where I had any control over the IP range I happen to be on the network on, short of physically relocating to another building, and even that is unlikely to make any real difference unless the buildings are geographically distant from each other. The scheduling thing is annoying, but that's simply incompetence by a single person and hardly reflective of corporate policy. In fact, it's about par for the course when it comes to HR personnel, if you ask me. As for preparation - that whole screed appears to just be coming from someone who has never been through a job interview before. In fact, the entire essay seems much more the griping of someone who has no experience interviewing for a job than any kind of list of fixable complaints.
Uhm, someone tell me -why- anyone would want to work for Facebook? I mean besides desperation.
Sent from my ENIAC
If you have difficulty expressing yourself in front of others for whatever reason (stage fright, for instance) consider joining Toastmasters.
It's a club for people who want to learn to speak in front of an audience. It's got branch clubs all over the world, so there's probably one near you. They meet twice a month (more or less - depending on the club) and have a nominal yearly dues.
After about two years of going you start to "get the hang of it" and become more relaxed and fluent when talking to groups.
If you think you might get a Skype interview and if you have trouble with presentations, you should check them out.
That was a pointless write up. I'm sure Facebook will be fine without this guy. I wouldn't hire him to mow my lawn.
yup :)
That's how I would describe the summary for this article. Does anyone interview candidate Slashdot editors before offering them jobs?
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
Complete and utter piffle.
I was relieved when I saw everyone else bashing this guy with the same things I was thinking as I read the piece.
I bombed an interview once, because I am lazy and I procrastinated in preparing for the interview, when the time came, i was so worried about not giving good answers that I just made myself look considerably less intelligent than I probably am. I learned a great deal form that interview and have not repeated the scenario since. Live and learn, take some responsibility too, it won't kill you.
being a whiny bitch will get you blacklisted though
Facebook just isn't that into you.
The vast majority of coding/development jobs don't rely on your CS skills, but, rather, on your ability to cobble together something that kind of works, in the face of incomplete documents, interruptions from others, and always fluctuating schedules and constraints.. hey, just like the interview he reported..
It started out like this
Recruiter sitting at his desk with his head in his hands and a half-empty bottle of cheap Scotch nearby, just waiting for the axe to come down. The phone rings. He picks it up to stop the noise and
"Hello, Facebook recruiting. I think you have the wrong number."
"No, I'm looking for a job at Facebook."
"Hey, that's great, my first one since...uhh you do know Facebook already had the IPO, right? I tried not telling people that but the boss got mad."
And it was all downhill from there.
A whiny Israeli blogs that he doesn't like the way Facebook interviewed him. I'm going to bed.
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
I recently went through a few rounds of FB phone interviews, and I think the poster's complaints are just sour grapes.
I got a cold call from a recruiter a few months ago for a position that fit my qualifications well. Although happily employed I decided to respond on a whim. I had a long chat with the recruiter to explain the position and recap my resume. We scheduled a phone interview with members of the team, and the recruiter was more than happy to coordinate a mutually convenient time for the call within the next week.
I prepared for the interview by going over some material that the recruiter had sent me, finding a private place to take the call, and nothing more. I'm not going to go into any real detail on the content except to say that it didn't seem focused on technical depth and instead lightly touched on the skills relevant to the position. I asked a few questions to get a feel for the unwritten expectations of the position (ex. "work-life balance" stuff, travel, etc) and to suss out how the employees felt about working there. On the last note I can say that the people there are given the special Kool-Aid in their lavish break rooms, are really good at transrectal vapor delivery, or truly enjoy Facebook.
At no point in time did I have any call quality issues.
The call must have gone well as the recruiter called me a few hours after it was over to schedule a second round. Again they were flexible in scheduling. Although promised a more technical set of questions this too had an unnervingly light technical skills focus. I was able to get a better picture of the environment this time: employees typically own their projects, not much mentorship, more focus on whizzy features than the bottom line, a moderate level of empire building. Not sure if it was just this team or the company as a whole, but I got the feeling that the managers were rarely advocates for their employees. No sound problems on this call though.
The recruiter once more called soon after, this time to set up travel for an on-site. I declined, partially because I found the differences between what I'd experienced and what I'd heard about the rigors of Facebook interviews to be unsettling, part because I'm not fond of their product and practices, but mostly for a lack of a compelling reason to take the job.
Having said all that, YMMV. A position elsewhere in the organization might result in a totally different interview experience. As for the poster's experience, I'm confident he didn't do well on the interview and so blames it on call quality, a misleading howto, and scheduling. If I was told to hold off a few months for a phone interview, I'd decline on the spot to keep from wasting my own time as it should be obvious that the position is oversaturated with applicants.
Someone had to spend time emailing, calling, and skyping to interview for job? I think I might cry...
I wonder if they let him know how he went by setting his facebook status to "unemployed little whiner".
You have to prepare for an interview? Weak.
"Do you expect all these timeslots to remain reserved for the three months, until the interview is finally scheduled? To me, this seems ridiculous -- "
why not, my dentist and doctors have no issue asking that question, and once I settle on a date I usually plan around it.
Gee maybe, just maybe, time management and planning a schedule months in advance MIGHT be a job requirement for any form of development?
An astute candidate would have a headset, and Sipura to connect to PSTN if needed, and a few more clues.
There are a few companies out there that are notorious for long drawn out interview processes. Recently I was interviewing with Amazon for nearly three months. I finally just withdrew, my sole mission in life does not revolve around having to score a job at Amazon they are just not that interesting. Obviously nobody good is going to be in the market more than a week or two. I can only assume based on this that the employees there would be average at best, or had a unhealthy lifelong mission to score a job at Amazon.
Like most people here, I feel this guy comes across as a bit of a petty whiner, and far too submissive.
They want a date in December? Well, I could give a date in March I'll be free. March 13th will be fine. If they don't like it they're free to suggest another day. If there's no response in a week, that's when you respond. Not after almost a month! Demand confirmation of the time then. If they come back with an inconvenient time and don't offer any flexibility, then facebook fails the interview
If you feel the need to prepare, then prepare. Are you really going to forget everything you've prepared after a week?
Then the connection. Well, that's a fairly reasonable complaint, I guess. Not really sure it's facebook's fault.
I do agree that facebook has a poor interview process. But why did he feel such a need to work for them? There are other companies. I presume he's employed since he wasn't desperately looking for other jobs at the time.
Go to bed...FFS
My experience was that they couldn't organise a phone interview worth a damn.
If their internal organisation was that fucked up, what was the chance the rest of the company was working better or better structured?
Close to 0.
facebook fail.
I totally agree with some of the people here, HR is definitely a waste of 'resources' as they like to say. I would rather hire a freelance engineer or whatever is the specific field and have him select people, much wiser and more pleasant experience than being 'recruited' by some fat ass wanna be important waste of space. EOR
Harden the fuck up
If you want to work for the devil, you have to expect the devil in the details.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
HR is the biggest mistake in the history of any company. HR puts up walls, processes, systems and rules that make running / entering a company a logic puzzle of confusion.
,VHDL, Matlab etc... Basically HR is a big department who's sole job is to spin tires in mud and progress no where well pissing off the rest of the company.
Productive HR should be run by the managers / directors of the company and no one else, who better knows how to hire an employee then the director of that division!
HR on the other hand likes to scan, read and prcoess resumes and in 90% of all cases they have no idea what anything in the resume means. For instance I know most HR personal don't know what the IEEE is. Now you would think that the HR of an engineering company might understand the name of the biggest engineering group in the world. They also don't understand keywords like FPGA
I wonder if the grammar and sentence structure used in the blog post is indicative of that used during the application and interview process? It hurt my mind to read that hot mess.
because HR will be HR
Sent from my ENIAC
Boohoo. I've had worse. Showing up to appointments that the HR knew nothing about. Having interviews where the interviewer forgot the appointment and ended up making as ass of himself asking nonsense question resulting in a failed interview. The list goes on.
They seem no worse that any other HR department I have dealt with. Facebook HR has all the usual traits, lazy, sloppy, arrogant and dishonest.
Human Resources is not usually a leadership group: they're following practices set forth by the company's management. If they're scheduling events 3 months in advance without an actual date, and setting the date in the last week at their own convenience and not the convenience of the job candidate, that means the problem is a policy one above the pay grade of the individual HR person. A job interview is always a two way process: let this be a strong hint that you'd be merely a cog in a very big machine.
The different nature of the exam than what this candidate expected should not have been a surprise. Concluding the nature of an interview from how far ahead it was scheduled is the sort of extrapolation without data that will waste everyone's time, socially and in programming. Someone who'd been through a few technical interviews would know that such interviews very widely, would do their "due diligence", and find out the nature of the exam in advance. That's why "LinkedIn" is very useful for, both ways: to examine a company through employees whose candid opinions might be helpful, and to get other references about an employee. These references are vital, and can give information that HR or a company brochure would _never_ provide, or might never think to ask for.
One of the best candidates I interviewed had been mishandled by our own HR: poor scheduling and insensitivity to the candidate's needs for confidentiality had almost cost them their current job. (We had VP approval at their current company to interview the candidate, because the department was being closed: but the candidate's supervisor hadn't been told yet. It was a strange situation.) When that candidate arrived, they were very upset. They and I spent almost the whole interview going over how to arrange layers of access to information in _our_ systems, to allow HR to do their jobs but to protect them and us from similar confusion and from possible lawsuits about gender, age, or medical conditions. They came away with the realization that we'd screwed up, but wouldn't repeat the problem, and that we actually _did_ try to treat our employees based on skill, and to treat employees as people. And we saw that they took bad situations as problems to resolve, rather than as personal insults.
We didn't hire them. (They got an internal company transfer, much to their benefit.) But they've worked with us on some projects since then to both our benefit.
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While many might not agree 100% with the author, my experience with Silicon Valley companies is similar. About 6 months ago I relocated to the US west coast and applied to about 3 dozen companies of all sizes. Not hearing anything for about a month, I started questioning whether something was wrong. Then slowly I started getting call backs. After the initial phone screen, I was scheduled for first round phone interviews. 50% were late calling me on the day of the interview, 25% didn't call at all requiring me to chase people down, and 25% called me on the wrong day. Not one phone interview kicked off on time. Things got no better on the live interviews. Scheduling time with HR was like a throwback to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. When I did meet face to face with folks, mentioning the HR process led to eyerolls and stories of "the one that got away" due to HR not getting in touch with candidates.
I eventually did find and awesome company to settle into and as a hiring manager, deal with the awful bureaucracy as an insider. I have lost several good candidates and often curse HR for being an obstacle. I am still getting calls from the companies I applied to nearly half a year ago asking when I was available to interview.
I was all eager to read the article and nod in disgust at Facebook's incompetence, but after reading a bit, I have to say, "Grow up, crybaby!"
Boo hoo hoo! It's called living life as an adult. Sorry you're used to not having to plan future commitments. If the interview is so important, keep your day open, kid!
Boo hoo hoo! If preparing for the interview is so important to you, cancel your precious "plans". How is their HR supposed to know you have a keg stand to appear at over the weekend?
Boo hoo hoo! I don't know my shit like I should, so I'm going to have to "cram" instead and try to sound smarter than I am! This is really stressful and hurts my feelings!!
Boo hoo hoo! I couldn't guess what my interviewer would ask me, which is sooooo unfair, and I wasted a lot of time trying to fool them!
Sorry Zohan, go drown your sorrows in a Fizzy Bubblech. Also, FB requires your real name so please no more Scrappy Coco accounts.
Sincerely,
The Phantom, Sr. Hiring Manager, HR
Not surprisingly, I believe this is a common issue with companies whose HR departments are overloaded with applicants. I had a similar HR experience when applying to Riot Games. I'd passed the initial online assessment they use to presumably establish you are minimally educated, then received an email from the recruiter with a potential phone screen date. I promptly replied back, but didn't receive any confirmation until a couple days later, but only after I sent a follow up email. Also unusual were the times she was sending me emails - anywhere between 8pm to midnight.
The phone screen was equally unusual. She called me several minutes late, then gave forewarning that she would likely have to cut the phone screen short and complete the remainder at a later time because she needed to deal with another candidate who got lost coming into the office. Sure enough, she discontinued after about 10 minutes, and called back about 20 minutes later to finish the phone screen.
After the phone screen, she estimated that I would likely hear back from them by next week whether I would move to the next phone screen. I waited until the end week and sent a follow up email, and when she finally emailed me back, it had sounded like she completely forgot to pass my resume along altogether! She apologized for the delay and assured me she would get back to me soon after personally following up with the relevant hiring managers. Not surprisingly, I didn't hear back from her, so I waited a few more days and then gave her a call. I was as cordial and polite as could possibly be, but she didn't sound very happy to hear from me and promised she'd contact me soon, which never happened.
Needless to say, this was the most unusual hiring experience I've ever been through, and my initial enthusiasm has dampened significantly. I honestly would have preferred if the process ran smoothly and I was fairly certain I didn't get the job, but it has been confusing and frustrating at every step in the process.
Wow. This guy reminds me of an intern that we tried to hire a few companies ago. Smart kid, finally finished school and the decided that the world owed "him". He tried to get us to change our benefit policy to suit his needs more amongst other demands. Needless to say we passed on him. Seems he had a hard time finding a job for a few months as well...
Seriously, Facebook does not work for you and with the popularity of Facebook this type of behaviour is not unheard of. I have worked at places where it has taken up to 6 months to hire a person due to the interviews, background checks, etc. Recruiters often have hundreds of positions on the go, so expecting personalized attention for each candidate is unlikely unless it is for a high profile position. Oh, and they didn't stick to your schedule? So sorry! Sometimes things don't work out, and both sides have to be flexible. Also expecting Facebook to be flexible when they gave you three months to create an opening is asinine!
While I am tempted to go after him for the BS he felt regarding not being prepared because they changed the interview schedule, etc, I can only hope that Facebook reads his post and puts him on a DNH (do not hire) list. Such high expectations for a simple development position at a large organization like Facebook is insane. This is a classic example of why IT people are viewed as either basement dwellers, anti-social individuals or people who are tripping over their own egos. Come on, it is a development job at a big name company. We have seen hundreds of these stories, both good and bad, over the years from a bunch of other orgs.
So you had a bad interview. Most of us have had at least one in our careers. Get over it. Learn from your mistakes and move on. Oh and dear Slashdot editors? C'mon, we really do expect better.
Who is John Galt?
Crutchy did you say this? "python relies on left indentation" here http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41126245 ?
Ok - Then, where's yours here then http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41091833 ?
* LMAO... see subject-line!
APK
P.S.=> Poor little 'CruTcHy' (lmao) - burnt by his own words and stupidity, as per his usual...
... apk
When has Slashdot ever been enlightened geek news? You come to Slashdot to hate on: (1) Micro$oft (2) Steve Jobs (3) the patent system. If you came to see anything else, you made a big mistake.
1.) 'CruTcHy' doesn't know that PYTHON requires left indentation -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3335057&cid=42378113 (yet said I needed to do that? Please... talk about "pot calling a kettle black", lol!). He doesn't even CODE Python, and claimed to have "debugged it" himself? He used an online debugger (on code that /. formatting messed up on a paste that ran perfectly, see #2 next).
2.) IF my program has a "bug", how come it ran PERFECTLY here, 5x in a row vs. trolls like yourself + 100's of times BEFORE that too, vs. your "trollspeak/trollanguage", 'CruTcHy'... Hmmm?? -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3301707&cid=42259605
3.) 'CruTcHy' conceded memory usage with loaded data (where first you criticized me for it & withdrew it) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41126057 (yet he says he "codes Delphi"... on THAT note? See #12 below also, lol!) and *tried* to say he'd edit a large custom hosts file vs. duplicates by hand with a text editor (good luck to that with MILLIONS of entries, lol).
4.) 'CruTcHy' BLEW IT on the print statement -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41085803 (yes, I proved I was well aware of it, but unlike 'CruTcHy' , google-boy/googler? I do my OWN work & write my own inlined code vs. function call overheads & control actually - same reason I didn't use BDE or SQLite - I did the work, myself, perfectly!)
5.) 'CruTcHy' missed the fact that the hosts file DOES need protecting (UAC ACL & write protect help do so) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41126421
6.) 'CruTcHy' ADMITTED hosts files are useful (which I will find very useful in the future, thank you!) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41126661
7.) 2 significant folks in the security field who create custom hosts file data host my GUI program in malwarebytes' hpHosts & securemecca -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41126285 for custom hosts file creation & mgt.... and 'CruTcHy' said nobody gives a hoot about my program (seems you do, & fail vs. it, and there's these security folks also).
8.) Text Editors like notepad.exe &/or gedit will NOT handle properly processing hosts file data fully, which 'CruTcHy' had to be "schooled in" also -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41121573
9.) 'CruTcHy' is a troll that's constantly off topic - He had to be reminded of what the topic is here (hosts) since you were trolling calling me homo, retard, & such, plus starting up your trolling b.s. -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41104817 &
10.) 'CruTcHy' doesn't even know that PROCESSORS FETCH INSTRUCTIONS FROM MEMORY (not send them directly to the CPU) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3335057&cid=42374745
11.) 'CruTcHy' says code should be easy to debug & yet doesn't use error-handlers -> http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3258205&cid=42016197 (we ought to call you "Mr. Crash & Burn", lol... change your nick to that, might as well, after that)... lmao!
12.) 'CruTcHy' says he codes Delphi - ok: Show us a program you've done that did as well as stuff I've done, all written in Delphi no less, over time then since 1997-2004 (In response to this, I will put up a list of things that did well in respected publications, commercial trade shows in computer sciences, books, magazines, newspapers, & more that I did while you were STILL IN DIAPERS, noob)...
13.) 'CruTcHy' was asked to PROVE HIS WORDS that he is a professional programmer... did he? No. He had a "fit" instead (lol) - see here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3272015&cid=42097505
14.) 'CruTcHy' also likes to call others "homo" (clearly "projecting" his OWN 'StrAnGe-TasTes' (lol)) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41051811 (where he was obviously 'FruStRatEd' by all the defeats above vs. mys
1.) 'CruTcHy' doesn't know that PYTHON requires left indentation -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3335057&cid=42378113 (yet said I needed to do that? Please... talk about "pot calling a kettle black", lol!). He doesn't even CODE Python, and claimed to have "debugged it" himself? He used an online debugger (on code that /. formatting messed up on a paste that ran perfectly, see #2 next).
2.) IF my program has a "bug", how come it ran PERFECTLY here, 5x in a row vs. trolls like yourself + 100's of times BEFORE that too, vs. your "trollspeak/trollanguage", 'CruTcHy'... Hmmm?? -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3301707&cid=42259605
3.) 'CruTcHy' conceded memory usage with loaded data (where first you criticized me for it & withdrew it) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41126057 (yet he says he "codes Delphi"... on THAT note? See #12 below also, lol!) and *tried* to say he'd edit a large custom hosts file vs. duplicates by hand with a text editor (good luck to that with MILLIONS of entries, lol).
4.) 'CruTcHy' missed the fact that the hosts file DOES need protecting (UAC ACL & write protect help do so) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41126421
5.) 'CruTcHy' ADMITTED hosts files are useful (which I will find very useful in the future, thank you!) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41126661
6.) 2 significant folks in the security field who create custom hosts file data host my GUI program in malwarebytes' hpHosts & securemecca -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41126285 for custom hosts file creation & mgt.... and 'CruTcHy' said nobody gives a hoot about my program (seems you do, & fail vs. it, and there's these security folks also).
7.) Text Editors like notepad.exe &/or gedit will NOT handle properly processing hosts file data fully, which 'CruTcHy' had to be "schooled in" also -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41121573
8.) 'CruTcHy' is a troll that's constantly off topic - He had to be reminded of what the topic is here (hosts) since you were trolling calling me homo, retard, & such, plus starting up your trolling b.s. -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41104817 &
9.) 'CruTcHy' doesn't even know that PROCESSORS FETCH INSTRUCTIONS FROM MEMORY (not send them directly to the CPU) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3335057&cid=42374745
10.) 'CruTcHy' says code should be easy to debug & yet doesn't use error-handlers -> http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3258205&cid=42016197 (we ought to call you "Mr. Crash & Burn", lol... change your nick to that, might as well, after that)... lmao!
11.) 'CruTcHy' says he codes Delphi - ok: Show us a program you've done that did as well as stuff I've done, all written in Delphi no less, over time then since 1997-2004 (In response to this, I will put up a list of things that did well in respected publications, commercial trade shows in computer sciences, books, magazines, newspapers, & more that I did while you were STILL IN DIAPERS, noob ->
as to what is wrong with "kids" these days. Does he expect Facebook to just hand him a job? He sounds ridiculous.
Hey kid... you want to know something - nobody owes you ANYTHING. If you want something you're going to have to reach out and take it.
I guess all those trophies you got "just for trying" are at fault for your utterly ridiculous self-entitled behavior.
He's an enemy civilian:
"I've been using the best Internet connection available -- the wired LAN at the Israel Institute of Technology. (To give an impression of its network infrastructure: the Institute had been allocated two of the handful Israeli class-B IP ranges.) On the day of the interview, I've made a test call to a friend in Israel (some 120km away from the Institute), to confirm that the call quality is perfect."
i'll laugh when Facebook goes out of business