I've been starting to refuse 4 hour technicals myself and they all immediately drop me. I don't have your seniority but I have some. As well as a powerful online presence across Github and LinkedIn. At what level of seniority did you start doing this and what is your success rate?
There's not really a seniority level where this happens.
The outrage around the technical interviews shows a lack of understanding for the situation companies face when hiring.
The reality is that something closer to 99% of the pool are applying for jobs they're not qualified for (not the same as saying 99% of developers aren't qualified - there's extreme survivorship bias in the pool).
At company X we would hire ~1/400 applicants who applied, and about ~1/20 referrals. At a smaller company I worked for we hired perhaps 1/200.
The thing is, many of these applicants have five to ten years experience (some at FAANG), but can't code at all. It's simply not possible to trust anything on a CV without verifying it. How do you verify this at scale? A pair programming exercise.
Now the training of most interviewers is often poor, but it's far better to go down this route than the HN alternative: hiring without technical screening.
they drop me too, but those companies are not worth working at to begin with
they’re not interested in hiring employees, their interest is to get candidates through the loop and to see you fail
this is fine when you’re applying to FAANG, but a terminal sickness when the company is barely known
rather than spending weeks on interviewing, i’d suggest making a open-source contribution or reading a book
the companies, especially startups have a bigger problem than you - they need to show the growth so they can attract more investors. Therefor, if they’re not getting people, they have harder time growing. If they see you as a potential candidate, but you refuse, they’ll bend their back over backwards
I was totally indifferent when I deleted Facebook. Maybe for a week after I would catch myself subconsciously opening a new tab and typing `fb.com` when I was bored before realizing what I was doing.
I held out on deleting Instagram for literal years until about 2 months ago. I finally got fed up when they overhauled the UI to focus on selling cheap and crappy goods. I always thought it provided a lot of benefit to my life because it was fun to share pictures. Turns out I didn't even care when I deleted it lol.
I think about deleting Twitter too, but it's just so darn useful for breaking news. And I could never get rid of Reddit. It is certainly an echo chamber but unless something bad happens it's basically the best website to find other hobbyists and even ask technical questions.
I cut out all alcohol and caffeine for the month of November. It has done wonders for my mental health. So no, I haven't. But I can definitely say I was in the months prior.
I have it running on Arch Linux about as well as MacOS. Which plainly speaking means absolutely awful.
My biggest frustration is that the game crashes when it attempts to submit a play by cloud turn if webhooks are turned on. And it has for a year now. With no indication it will ever be fixed.
And don't get me started with the game on MacOS completely ignoring mouse clicks for the right third of the screen.
I tried it on several Ubuntu versions and it was completely unplayable. Extreme lag in single player and even attempting to start a multiplayer game will freeze. I was able to play it on Fedora 32 (I suspect the more up to date kernel probably helped) but it had to be in the lowest settings. Of course I also have an Nvidia card so I probably asked for it.
They also completely broke cross platform play a while back, although there was a hack to "fix" it (fix meaning per-turn de-syncs)
That seems pretty reasonable to me for something like this, I just purchased it myself for $90 CAD, and generally I see these types books around the $100 CAD mark.
Kubernetes supports pretty much any type of storage through API Extensions so network mounts are supported. People often use the NFS-Client & NFS-Provisioner projects for this.
