I take an interview once a year for the practice and to gauge market rates.
Beyond that, here's my definition of wet paper bag:
Implement a dictionary class. You'll be given a file containing the set of words in the dictionary. You must implement one method 'boolean isWord(String word)'.
Good solution: reads the dictionary, stores the words in a HashSet/TreeSet or ArrayList, checks to see if word is present in isWord (must use binary search for ArrayList).
Ok solution: any less efficient data structure or algorithm (e.g. ArrayList with inefficient search, the most common in this category).
Tolerable solution (you pass if this is your only mistake): reads the entire file to check each word.
Fail: solution doesn't work.
And this is a take home quiz. You get to work on it for up to a week. It has 3 other parts, of comparable difficulty.
Fully 40% of 'senior engineers' with 15+ years on their resume (and at least 5 in java, the language we request a solution in) submit a solution that doesn't work. An additional 40% only reach tolerable. About 10% submit 'ok', and the last 10% reach good.
I think 'good' is the keyword. A megacorp is where the not so good go to have a secure job and a comfortable retirement. They are packed with such people.
I don't know. We get a disturbing number of resumes claiming 20+ years of overall experience who can't seem to code their way out of a wet paper bag. No one on our interviewing team has found a way to distinguish those resumes from the people who are great.
I'm guessing he was describing their ages ("four kids between seven and three years of age")... but personally I would have said "ages three to seven" instead of the more cryptic "7-3".
Also... four kids in four years? Seems kinda close together...
Indeed, too close together to be the explanation. Instead, I assume that he had seven kids, and three died, so now he has four.
I'm fortunate to live in CA, where property taxes are fixed at the time of purchase, thank you prop 13, and of course was not stupid enough to buy into an HOA.
That's precisely why more people are doing 2 years of community college + 2 (or even 1.5) years of university. Halve the cost of your education, and get the same degree. Unless you're weighing going to an ivy league where the connections you'll make in the freshman dorm may earn you a few million extra in lifetime earnings, there's just no reason to go to university for those first two years any more.
Massive inflation is my big hope... I'm buying a big fixed asset right now with a loan (a house), the most house I can afford with the depressed rates from the banking shenanigans and the reduced prices. So if inflation goes crazy, it's all good for me. Make my payments on the loan seem like nothing. Woohoo inflation!
If you have a question for a lawyer and you can't afford one, stop what you're doing.
In other words, everybody who isn't rich enough to see a lawyer should commit suicide because ultimately, everybody has questions. I hope this isn't what you meant.
The 'for a lawyer' portion is pretty critical. I don't have any questions for a lawyer and never have. You can live your life quite well without ever running into a situation where you will.
Handing out lots of traffic tickets is typically how they get their monthly or annual bonuses and promotions. So yes, greed is a major motivator there.
I think in general the animosity is towards people in mid-life who are doing these things, not fresh out of school. If you're not fresh out of school and 50% of your income is still going to school debt, you may have overpaid for your education, which is another rampant irresponsibility trend. Fresh out of school (first 5 years of career) you should pay off your school debt, then begin paying into retirement and rainy day funds. (Assuming you cannot get a better rate of return on retirement than your school debt interest rate).
Frankly, no one should carry any long term debt other than a house. If you have to finance your car, you're buying too nice of a car.
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That's a big component in why we start our interviewing process with a take-home exam ... no time or intimidation pressure.
I take an interview once a year for the practice and to gauge market rates.
Beyond that, here's my definition of wet paper bag:
Implement a dictionary class. You'll be given a file containing the set of words in the dictionary. You must implement one method 'boolean isWord(String word)'.
Good solution: reads the dictionary, stores the words in a HashSet/TreeSet or ArrayList, checks to see if word is present in isWord (must use binary search for ArrayList).
Ok solution: any less efficient data structure or algorithm (e.g. ArrayList with inefficient search, the most common in this category).
Tolerable solution (you pass if this is your only mistake): reads the entire file to check each word.
Fail: solution doesn't work.
And this is a take home quiz. You get to work on it for up to a week. It has 3 other parts, of comparable difficulty.
Fully 40% of 'senior engineers' with 15+ years on their resume (and at least 5 in java, the language we request a solution in) submit a solution that doesn't work. An additional 40% only reach tolerable. About 10% submit 'ok', and the last 10% reach good.
They are! They're earning 10% what they could if they could fill our positions!
Robotics, emergency responder request system, cpu fire starter ... the list goes on and on.
Thanks, but how do I know you can do the job? We're on our tenth professional recruiter.
They can't find anyone they feel they can afford. They want top notch skills for 2nd world pay, and they get it via h1-b.
I think 'good' is the keyword. A megacorp is where the not so good go to have a secure job and a comfortable retirement. They are packed with such people.
I don't know. We get a disturbing number of resumes claiming 20+ years of overall experience who can't seem to code their way out of a wet paper bag. No one on our interviewing team has found a way to distinguish those resumes from the people who are great.
I'm guessing he was describing their ages ("four kids between seven and three years of age")... but personally I would have said "ages three to seven" instead of the more cryptic "7-3".
Also... four kids in four years? Seems kinda close together...
Indeed, too close together to be the explanation. Instead, I assume that he had seven kids, and three died, so now he has four.
Which part of highly tuned assembler did you miss when picking GCC ....
I'm fortunate to live in CA, where property taxes are fixed at the time of purchase, thank you prop 13, and of course was not stupid enough to buy into an HOA.
That's precisely why more people are doing 2 years of community college + 2 (or even 1.5) years of university. Halve the cost of your education, and get the same degree. Unless you're weighing going to an ivy league where the connections you'll make in the freshman dorm may earn you a few million extra in lifetime earnings, there's just no reason to go to university for those first two years any more.
Massive inflation is my big hope ... I'm buying a big fixed asset right now with a loan (a house), the most house I can afford with the depressed rates from the banking shenanigans and the reduced prices.
So if inflation goes crazy, it's all good for me. Make my payments on the loan seem like nothing. Woohoo inflation!
Probably the same for at least 70%, given most states have only a 15% unemployment rate.
Now that would be a good deed of epic proportions!
Parappa was pretty derivative, the genre just hadn't seen much action since the 70s. I had a couple of homebrew music beat games on my atari 800.
If you have a question for a lawyer and you can't afford one, stop what you're doing.
In other words, everybody who isn't rich enough to see a lawyer should commit suicide because ultimately, everybody has questions. I hope this isn't what you meant.
The 'for a lawyer' portion is pretty critical. I don't have any questions for a lawyer and never have. You can live your life quite well without ever running into a situation where you will.
We vote for lawyers because other idiots limit our choices to two lawyers, and hence the expression 'voting for the lesser of two evils'.
I always vote for a non-lawyer right up until I can't, and then I take my responsibility to get the lesser evil quite seriously.
MSNBC regularly criticizes democrats and liberals, as well as republicans and fascists. Fox only critizes the democrats and liberals.
And yes, I do statistics for a living.
Do you work with the statistics porn guy?
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I bet Joel is around a lot of people.
But my colleagues all seem pretty smart and talented.
Handing out lots of traffic tickets is typically how they get their monthly or annual bonuses and promotions. So yes, greed is a major motivator there.
My recent visit there reminded me more of Veridian Dynamics.
I doubt if the percentage with a minor indiscretion to hide (of a scanner detectable kind) exceeds 5%.
I think in general the animosity is towards people in mid-life who are doing these things, not fresh out of school. If you're not fresh out of school and 50% of your income is still going to school debt, you may have overpaid for your education, which is another rampant irresponsibility trend. Fresh out of school (first 5 years of career) you should pay off your school debt, then begin paying into retirement and rainy day funds. (Assuming you cannot get a better rate of return on retirement than your school debt interest rate).
Frankly, no one should carry any long term debt other than a house. If you have to finance your car, you're buying too nice of a car.