If my house cought fire my NAS burns, and that's fine. If I survive the fire I can still access my email. If I don't Linode shuts it down month later, so it's good for the planet too ;)
I think the idea was more like... if you can afford a RAID6 NAS at home you can afford Backblaze so don't be silly and get some offsite redundancy going.
Thank you for drawing my attention to this, I was not aware of Backblaze! I'll have to deduplicate my backups (of backups of backups) and will definitely look into saving most precious bits!
I encourage anyone to stand their ground on this. Competing with liars is an enormous soft-skill challenge. But it doesn’t exercise critical thinking. Structuring a personal plan that builds those soft skills is really annoying. Especially if you just want to solve complex problems all day.
That said,
- the interviewer likely embellished or lied to get his job. Be careful.
- a lot of this thread is about avoiding a bad hire. In engineering, someone technical who can detect deception is too valuable to put in the interviewer role. Send them to conferences to “poach”.
Just like the soft skills of competing with liars, you can also improve detecting deception.
I might be calling obvious but if candidate uses something like this, is this not lying to potential employer?
I'd rather be rejected than got job I'm not qualified to do, that's why I never prepare for interview above studying the actual company- and that is more to give me proper signal if I want to work for them, I want to be motivated to make move on more than just money.
I also have never done leetcode, though I like competitive programming problems, especially bot programming contests on codingame.com
> I'd rather be rejected than got job I'm not qualified to do
As many people have pointed out, the interview process has diverged from real-world, day-to-day tasks you would be expected to accomplish once you get the job. Not actually being able to do a leetcode test (either due to lacking knowledge or interview stress) might not have any reflection on someones ability to succeed in the role they are interviewing for. How many people are dealing with sorting algorithms or traversing binary trees without access to the internet as part of their job?
> that's why I never prepare for interview above studying the actual company
You and me both. I just read a bit about the company before applying for the job. In the interview, I ask the interviewer only two questions: what’s the management style? Is it a servant leadership style with autonomous work, or is it a hierarchical task-based one? The second question is, what does an average day-to-day job look like? Sure, there are few stressful days and others are relaxed, but on average you can tell. Is it chaotic, always running against deadlines and having new tasks thrown at you, or is everything sorted out properly? Sometimes, I also ask about the meetings. I personally don’t like useless meetings. A lot of middle management uses meetings as part of the power dynamics and exerting power rather than actually discussing and solving issues.
Of course I would also want the information from your second question, but it never occurred to me that asking directly would get me that information. I guess if it's a leaf node they might just tell you the truth, but in general you'd expect the interviewer to say what they think you want to hear wouldn't you?
Not legally, according to my research (we run a UK Ltd). But it sucks a bit to not have a UK bank account, because for HMRC (tax office) we could not click next in an important dialogue until we entered a bank account to which tax repayments are to be paid out in the UK specific format ("account number and sort code"), which you only get with an UK bank account. This was 9 years ago.
If you open a UK Ltd fully remotely, you can get bank accounts with Wise and Revolut. Don't take only one of them, always have 2 banks. Because e.g. Revolut randomly held a medium sized customer payment (one of many, from the same long term customer) in lock for months for no good reason. We could not talk to a human to resolve it. Never rely on a single bank.
Not OP, but- it seems OP is looking to test an idea and not paying unnecessary costs or setting up unnecessary entities abroad, exploring possible options for paying less does not mean she/he 'does not have the stomach for that kind of a gamble'- why pay more when you can pay less?
I'm inhabitant of a country Germans tried to anihilate in 1939. Germany of 1939 is usually called Nazi Germany here, still- it's Germany. Same as Soviet Russia who attacked 17 days later- it was Russia, not some misterious nation called Soviets. These are language cover-ups. I do acknowledge there had been many Germans who chose death rather than to join their countrymen in horrible crimes, and I admire those who did not join. Unfortunately orders of magnitude more volunteered and were actively taking part in German death machinery.
Not original commenter, but I would opt not to use such social media. There is world outside of computer, less social media is less temptetion to waste time online :)
I never had 'real' social media account, and never had 'immoral' intentions. I find it interesting phenomena how easily people switched from pseudonymes on the internet to using their real names, and now think there is something wrong by not providing real data.
Not YC founder and I have no data to give you advice on monetary values. However. In my area, if you advertise yourself as junior you are setting yourself to be paid junior rates- scout LinkedIn, career pages for companies you are interested in, and whatever other sources to get a feel of what juniors are paid. Some companies (not all) hire juniors due to budget reasons. Having said this, it's all in your hands and circumstances- target the figure you want to earn and weight your circumstances, if you are not in need for money you can prioritise getting good entries in your CV, if you prefer to hunt at expense of time- do it. Good luck!
Thanks for the advice! You’re absolutely right—labeling myself as "junior" might unintentionally pigeonhole my value, and I’ll keep that in mind moving forward.
I’m definitely prioritizing experience and impactful entries on my CV over immediate financial gain at this stage, especially if it means working on meaningful projects with great mentors.
I’ll take your suggestion to scout LinkedIn and company career pages to better understand the market rates. Do you think it’s better to negotiate salary upfront or prove my value first, especially if I’m open to competitive pay for the right opportunity?
Thanks again for the thoughtful reply—it really helps!
From experience I'd risk to say that whatever you get initially will be hard (not impossible but hard) to change later, so I'd always try to negotiate terms to be as comfortable as possible before I join.
