I've given hundreds of technically interviews, and I never, ever give feedback directly. It's not because I am mean or lazy, there is just no good reason to, and lots of reasons not to.
First and foremost is liability. If you tell someone they did well in the interview, and they don't get an offer, that is just ammo for a lawsuit. On the flip side, if I politely tell someone they suck, and they get hired, I don't want them in the cube next to me.
Next on my list is the big stupid argument factor. Feedback isn't about personal improvement. It is about damage control, and I'm just not interested in hearing how I misunderstood your response or I asked the wrong question or whatever excuse you make up for flubbing a question. Don't solicit my opinion just to tell me why I am wrong.
Finally, the technical interviewer doesn't always have all the facts to give feedback. They may be interviewing for several open reqs, and I don't know what the salary ranges are or what the interviewee is asking for. I don't want to say you had a pretty good interview, then have HR say you aren't qualified for the super senior position you had your eye on. I also don't want to impact salary negotiations by building you up too high.
You might as well complain no one knows how many pecks are in a bushel.
As society moved away from agriculture, knowing these units of measure became less important.
Similarly, with ubiquitous spelling and grammar checking, you don't have to spend the neurons to memorize a bunch of byzantine rules. Formal writing (w/ spellchecking) comes out fine, but informal takes a hit. That's the price of progress.
That's the hardest thing to get past when you are OS bilingual.
In many places with blended environments, the is an underground holy war, each camp trying to stake a claim for more territory in the name of their OS deity.
If you have ties in both camps, if you are not careful, you are seen as a traitor, and everyone hates you.
What to do? I try to rise above the fray, and take a best tool for the job approach, then focus on being a job expert, and not a tool expert. Carpenters are tool experts. Architects are job experts.
Also try making fun of Macs a lot. That always brings Windows and *nix types together.
In you consulting career, did you ever work on a government project?
It's going to be a lot like that, probably worse in some ways.
The bad:
Less pay
Fewer resources
Lower overall talent level
Impossible to fire deadwood coworkers
Work farmed out to less experienced, often unreliable students
Unrealistic and/or disorganized projects
The good:
You can go home at 5
Job security
Flexiblity
No one knows and/or cares if you aren't doing your job
No one loses their stock options if the project fails
Now, I know these aren't universal, but I see them enough in the government/education sector to call them trends.
Overall, though, it's not such a bad gig for student. The trick is going to be to shed a lot of your consultant traits. You are not going to be very empowered, and going above and beyond isn't going to get you any further than a journeyman's effort. I am not saying you should slack off, but you aren't being paid like a consultant, so your effort level should be commensurate. You are there to get an education, and you are basically flipping burgers help make it happen.
Those outside the Denver area might not be aware StorageTek's main facility is across the highway from a half empty Sun campus.
Picking up a less tape-centric storage company might have made more sense on paper, but StorageTek offers some serious consolidation opportunities without relocating staff.
I don't know if this makes up for some of the other shortcomings in the deal, but it is something to consider.
I'm curious. On the disgusting scale, how does eating meating containing traces of fecal matter, compare to eating plants, which are grown in, and indirectly constructed out of, fecal matter?
Neither I, nor many people I know, have a problem with irradiated food based only on the irradiation. We know we won't get sick from it. However, the companies that want to irradiate their meat only want that to be the case so they don't have to make an effort to keep the feces out of the production lines.
I don't know about you, but irrated shit is still shit. Safe or not, it's still fucking disgusting.
If you breath in deeply, you are likely to get an oxygen atom Julius Caesar exhaled with his dying breath.
You have a similar chance to get once from the intestinal gasses of any cow that ever lived.
Those organic molecules that comprised your breakfast, once coursed through the blood of holy men and the veneral discharges of mad men.
Being a biological organism is pretty fucking disgusting. Get over it.
You are completely right...and sadly, completely wrong.
Nuclear batteries are probably as safe as internal combustion engines and natural gas pipelines.
But nuclear is a very very spooky word, especially if you are science illiterate. Nuclear power is greener, irradiated food is safer, and a nuclear rocket could get us to Mars in weeks instead of years. Use any, and so-called "environmentalist" come out of the woodwork with their comic book science education, and make the best conceived nuclear project politically untenable.
This isn't a technology issue or a safety issue. This is a science education issue.
Hell, I know people who are still afraid of microwave ovens.
If I stuck my arm down my toilet 5 times a day, it could be a weird addiction...or I could be a plumber.
I guess "Americans Addicted to Email" is going to sell more magazines.
"Flawed Survery Offers No Clear Conclusions on Email Usage" just doesn't have the same panache.
I signed up for Keyhole in January, and was a little bummed when Google Maps came out, thinking I had wasted my money.
Google Earth sure made up for it:
Maps is plenty slick, but Earth's interface is still better if you want to have a look around an area
you can take driving directions, and actually replay the whole route, isometrically, in 3D, looking down and where your car would be
you get your custom push pins, so places of interest become a permanent fixtures to your application
you have a greater variety of layers you can apply to your images
you can display maps with any conceivable orientation, and can set the altitude of your POV
GPS aware
$29/year is cheap cheap cheap
And don't understimate wow neat. I was on a customer site, and the software I was training them on flaked out. I fired up Keyhole to look for a restuarant, "forgetting" my computer was still hooked to the projector. The class took the next hour or so looking for their houses, while I quietly worked the issue with support.
Beginner --
Your computer will work slightly better. Thank you, drive through.
Intermediate --
Instead of having dynamic IP's or a few static ones, and mucking about with NAT and jumping through firewall hoops, you can have as many was you want. IPv6 provides enough addresses to index every atom in the universe, give or take, and will never run out! (and no one need more than 640K of RAM).
Advanced --
Welcome to the FUTURE! IPv^6 will revolutionize everything you do! Every computer, every electronic device, every clock radio and light bulb will be INTERNET AWARE! You can view your refrigerator webcam from your cell phone while shopping! And once your cybernetic implants arrive, they will be accessible from the web as well! Woohoo!
Beacuse:
A. Repressive regimes may not have a lot of unsecured open hotspots.
B. Repressive regimes may not have an abundance of wireless enabled laptops, and possessing one would draw attention.
C. Going from "inside the internet cafe" to "within 150' of the internet cafe" doesn't get you that much. Repressive regimes are pretty good with triangulation.
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I've given hundreds of technically interviews, and I never, ever give feedback directly. It's not because I am mean or lazy, there is just no good reason to, and lots of reasons not to.
First and foremost is liability. If you tell someone they did well in the interview, and they don't get an offer, that is just ammo for a lawsuit. On the flip side, if I politely tell someone they suck, and they get hired, I don't want them in the cube next to me.
Next on my list is the big stupid argument factor. Feedback isn't about personal improvement. It is about damage control, and I'm just not interested in hearing how I misunderstood your response or I asked the wrong question or whatever excuse you make up for flubbing a question. Don't solicit my opinion just to tell me why I am wrong.
Finally, the technical interviewer doesn't always have all the facts to give feedback. They may be interviewing for several open reqs, and I don't know what the salary ranges are or what the interviewee is asking for. I don't want to say you had a pretty good interview, then have HR say you aren't qualified for the super senior position you had your eye on. I also don't want to impact salary negotiations by building you up too high.
You might as well complain no one knows how many pecks are in a bushel.
As society moved away from agriculture, knowing these units of measure became less important.
Similarly, with ubiquitous spelling and grammar checking, you don't have to spend the neurons to memorize a bunch of byzantine rules. Formal writing (w/ spellchecking) comes out fine, but informal takes a hit. That's the price of progress.
That's the hardest thing to get past when you are OS bilingual.
In many places with blended environments, the is an underground holy war, each camp trying to stake a claim for more territory in the name of their OS deity.
If you have ties in both camps, if you are not careful, you are seen as a traitor, and everyone hates you.
What to do? I try to rise above the fray, and take a best tool for the job approach, then focus on being a job expert, and not a tool expert. Carpenters are tool experts. Architects are job experts.
Also try making fun of Macs a lot. That always brings Windows and *nix types together.
It's going to be a lot like that, probably worse in some ways.
The bad:
- Less pay
- Fewer resources
- Lower overall talent level
- Impossible to fire deadwood coworkers
- Work farmed out to less experienced, often unreliable students
- Unrealistic and/or disorganized projects
The good:- You can go home at 5
- Job security
- Flexiblity
- No one knows and/or cares if you aren't doing your job
- No one loses their stock options if the project fails
Now, I know these aren't universal, but I see them enough in the government/education sector to call them trends.Overall, though, it's not such a bad gig for student. The trick is going to be to shed a lot of your consultant traits. You are not going to be very empowered, and going above and beyond isn't going to get you any further than a journeyman's effort. I am not saying you should slack off, but you aren't being paid like a consultant, so your effort level should be commensurate. You are there to get an education, and you are basically flipping burgers help make it happen.
--- diving is one of the few activities where you can be under ten metres of water and still have a dry throat.
Um...diving i sone of the few activities where you can be under ten metres of water...period!
Those outside the Denver area might not be aware StorageTek's main facility is across the highway from a half empty Sun campus.
Picking up a less tape-centric storage company might have made more sense on paper, but StorageTek offers some serious consolidation opportunities without relocating staff.
I don't know if this makes up for some of the other shortcomings in the deal, but it is something to consider.
I'm curious. On the disgusting scale, how does eating meating containing traces of fecal matter, compare to eating plants, which are grown in, and indirectly constructed out of, fecal matter?
Neither I, nor many people I know, have a problem with irradiated food based only on the irradiation. We know we won't get sick from it. However, the companies that want to irradiate their meat only want that to be the case so they don't have to make an effort to keep the feces out of the production lines.
I don't know about you, but irrated shit is still shit. Safe or not, it's still fucking disgusting.
If you breath in deeply, you are likely to get an oxygen atom Julius Caesar exhaled with his dying breath.
You have a similar chance to get once from the intestinal gasses of any cow that ever lived.
Those organic molecules that comprised your breakfast, once coursed through the blood of holy men and the veneral discharges of mad men.
Being a biological organism is pretty fucking disgusting. Get over it.
You are completely right...and sadly, completely wrong.
Nuclear batteries are probably as safe as internal combustion engines and natural gas pipelines.
But nuclear is a very very spooky word, especially if you are science illiterate. Nuclear power is greener, irradiated food is safer, and a nuclear rocket could get us to Mars in weeks instead of years. Use any, and so-called "environmentalist" come out of the woodwork with their comic book science education, and make the best conceived nuclear project politically untenable.
This isn't a technology issue or a safety issue. This is a science education issue.
Hell, I know people who are still afraid of microwave ovens.
Geez...5 times a day = addiction?
If I stuck my arm down my toilet 5 times a day, it could be a weird addiction...or I could be a plumber.
I guess "Americans Addicted to Email" is going to sell more magazines. "Flawed Survery Offers No Clear Conclusions on Email Usage" just doesn't have the same panache.
Google Earth sure made up for it:
- Maps is plenty slick, but Earth's interface is still better if you want to have a look around an area
- you can take driving directions, and actually replay the whole route, isometrically, in 3D, looking down and where your car would be
- you get your custom push pins, so places of interest become a permanent fixtures to your application
- you have a greater variety of layers you can apply to your images
- you can display maps with any conceivable orientation, and can set the altitude of your POV
- GPS aware
- $29/year is cheap cheap cheap
And don't understimate wow neat. I was on a customer site, and the software I was training them on flaked out. I fired up Keyhole to look for a restuarant, "forgetting" my computer was still hooked to the projector. The class took the next hour or so looking for their houses, while I quietly worked the issue with support.Great, now you made me do math.
Let's see...
2^128 ~= 3.4 x 10^38
Low estimate for atoms in the universe:
4 x 10^79 ~= 2^264
Maybe IPv8.
Atoms in the earth:
10^50 ~= 2^167
Closer
Surface area of the earth:
5.1 x 10^8 km^2 = 5.1 x 10^14 m^2 = 5.1 x 10^20 mm^2
Hmmm...a few per square for? More like a quintillion per mm.
Volume of the earth:
1.0832×10^12 km^3 = 1.0832×10^21 m^3 = 1.0832×10^30 mm^3
So, assuming my math holds, each cubic mm of the earth could have 300,000,000 unique IP addresses.
Of course, if we let organizations snark up "class A" ranges (134.*.*.*.*.*.*.*) like we did with with IPv4, we'll be back to square one.
Well, for various degrees of average:
Beacuse:
A. Repressive regimes may not have a lot of unsecured open hotspots.
B. Repressive regimes may not have an abundance of wireless enabled laptops, and possessing one would draw attention.
C. Going from "inside the internet cafe" to "within 150' of the internet cafe" doesn't get you that much. Repressive regimes are pretty good with triangulation.