That a lot of non-american food is rebranded to use tacky american names to get people to try it. Too many americans are afraid to try “foreign” food, but will happily try “Cajun Jim’s Cornballs”. A couple I can think of are Aioli to “Garlic Mayo” and Chicken Satay becoming “Peanut Butter Chicken”. Sounds like mm mm good home american cookin’ to me, course I’ll try some.

You’re very welcome, I hope it helps. Go in ready and confident, you got this. We’re all rooting for you!

I highly highly recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuuDTnMPMgc

I think you’ll like it a lot. I realized that bathos is what I hated about the Last Jedi. They killed so many truly deep moments to have stupid jokes. They couldn’t let anything just be serious. It ruined the tone of the movie, couldn’t decide if they wanted to be a comedy or a drama, and so they did neither.

This will be the main interview. Welcome to software development interviews, where you can have 6 interviews and a take home exam and they still aren’t sure if you’re worth hiring.

This is what we call the “Loop”. I have done too many of these. I did one just yesterday actually! Probably… 15-20 under my belt now throughout my career.

There will be 4 1-hour interviews you will go through. Usually there will be some combination of the following. This is how most of mine go (my mid-tier ones and now my senior ones). They may mix and match them, you may get 2 technicals instead of a system design, maybe they don’t do the last one, who knows, but this is to help you prep a bit.

Technical - 1 hour with a sample problem. Chill companies will give you something like “Solve a wordsearch”. Maybe they have something premade like “Add some functionality to this”. Companies like Amazon will do a more intense leet-code style question. The number one advice I have to you is never stop talking. Be talking the entire time. Every thought you have, verbalize it. The interviewer is not a mind reader, they will be trying to figure out what you’re doing, and if you tell them they honestly will probably help you. Just describe everything you’re doing. “I’ll make a method here because I think it’ll be easier to reuse - well… maybe I won’t. Actually I’ll keep it and we can use it later, so yeah that’ll be what we use to do X functionality”. Even if you think you sound silly, it’ll really help your chances. Do this for the System Design below too. Worst thing a candidate can do is clam up and not talk in their interview, leaving the interviewer at the end trying to guess if they understood the problem or not.

Culture Fit - Talk about projects you did, since you’re coming out of entry level, focus on results. Outcomes. A lot of people ramble in these. Prepare for this interview. Look at your history, find projects, and learn the STAR Method for behavioral. It honestly is a clean way to tell your own history.

System Design - This will heavily change based on your level, and that’s okay. Usually it’s a question like “Design WhatsApp” or some vague thing like this. They won’t expect you to have a perfect answer. Instead, they’re looking for you to ask questions and how you think. I strongly recommend watching This video - again they lay out how to organize the interview. Most interviewees just start throwing stuff on a whiteboard - watch the video and learn how to lay out things in an ordered way. Even if you don’t know the answer, it shows how you think, which is much more valuable in the interview.

VP/Executive Chat - This will be a fairly informal chat with someone higher up at the company. They are mostly going to lean on the others to decide if you should be hired - but they want to know if you’re “excited” to work there. Show an interest in the company. Ask questions about something you heard they were working on. Are they smaller? Are they pushing towards IPO or something else? Show an interest in the business side. Talk about how you want to uplevel your skills and you think X company is the right place.

Bonus - The “Bar Raiser” - This is more of a “style” of interviewing that can happen in any of the mentioned ones above. I was caught off guard the first time I encountered one of these. The Bar Raiser is essentially they’re going to push you to see if you “raise the bar” for them, if you go above what a normal employee will do. You’ll notice this if you find they are asking a lot of questions, maybe even to the point of offending your or annoying you. This is essentially what they want, how do you do under pressure? How do you do when people are second guessing you? Don’t let it get to you, and don’t start bullshitting. Admit when you don’t know things. Stick to your guns on things you believe in, but admit when you don’t know things. Software engineers need to know when they don’t know something. When I was younger I insisted that a SQL database would be the best database for a system design. They asked why - and I didn’t have an answer. It’s just what I had used. What I should have said was “It’s what I’m most familiar with, but there are some others I would want to look at first to really make a decision”. Since I insisted that it was best, they asked how I would scale it? How would I make sure it wouldn’t go down. I quickly realized it wasn’t the best choice, and I worked myself into a corner.

Important Notes

• Ask for a break - you deserve a break between these. If you need to go to the bathroom, make sure there is time for it. You’re looking at 4 hours of interviews, most will offer between “Do you need anything” - don’t think it’s impolite. Just go to the bathroom if you need it.
• Accept the drink - They’ll offer you coffee or water. Just accept it. Again, 4 hours of interviews. You’ll need some water. You’ll get dry mouth, just trust me.
• Think about food - Most good ones will provide a lunch… but I’m seeing this less and less. Eat right before going in, nothing heavy or you’ll be sleepy, but have a good solid breakfast and eat before you go into the meeting. (Even if they provide lunch then you don’t look like a pig on their dime). Pack a snack with you if you can, after one loop I was shaking with hunger and went to the mcdonalds immediately after right next door because I was so hungry.
• Get a good night’s sleep before hand. You’ll have to be on the whole time, it’s just going to be tiring, physically and mentally.

Alright padawan, that’s my advice for you. I wish you all the luck in the world, take what I’ve learned about these and may my knowledge help you. We’re all rooting for you!

I’m honestly shocked it took this long tbh. It’s obviously a liability, the only question is what site is going to be sued into oblivion first, and a lawsuit would name everyone in the chain, from the site hosting it, to the cloud provider with the data on it, to the card processors. Whoever loses will be “made an example of” too, more than likely shuttering the doors of the site.

Borderlands. How did they spend that much money and none of the decision makers stop and think “nope this is crap”

First intro to MtG was in college I walked past a room with the lights out and only candles lit, the four people were wearing robes and playing… MtG. Decided right then that nah, that’s too far for me.

Seriously what is the deal with it? I remembered playing it in gym decades ago and everyone hated it. Now I see people lobbying for new freaking complexes for it. Let’s see if the fad lasts more than a year before dedicating public land space to it

Agreed on all points, and also would like to point out most of the people who want to “go back” are not the ones who were oppressed during that time. It’s no surprise that the people who want to go back are mostly those who grew up in the white suburbs and small towns, where it was simple and easy.

The oppressed are conveniently left out of those conversations. Where were the black people, or the gay people during those times? They existed, but in a very simple worldview it’s easy to forget that.

Unprecedented is not a bad word. It means there’s no precedent. I mean we’re finally pushing back.

So tone deaf, and clearly they’re just trying to steer the narrative.

They call out that it’s never taken lightly and it has to happen. We know. Stop killing games just says you have to do something when you turn off the servers. Either release the server source code so it can be engineered by the community, release a self hostage server alternative, even just documents or guides on how to get started.

But they’re going to try to make it about the mean old gamers want them to go broke

Pulse is probably the best live album of all time! Run like hell and comfortably numb are maybe even better than the originals, and the entirety of dark side is on it!

Final cut you can tell waters was just angry at society and the country that he felt betrayed him. It wasn’t the best album in terms of music or writing, but emotionally you could tell he was broken there.

And holt reminded him that it’s still a narrative that needed to be corrected. What about the one where Terry was profiled? Or holt was denied his promotion?

It’s pretty clear that you wouldn’t approve of any cop show that tries to work through these issues, so I’m not going to bother arguing with you. I think they did a great job, a lot of those episodes were very hard to watch because they were confronted with choosing a career under one pretended and then saw the reality. To do that with a comedic tone is incredibly hard, and I think they did well.

I don’t know of any millennial or younger who assumes there will be a safety net for them at the end of the road. We just don’t trust those in charge to keep it. I’ll fight for it, I paid into it and I want others to have it, but I can’t bank on it either

Yeah writer doesn’t mention money anywhere there, that’s the real trap. All of those sound nice but I have rent to pay.

Did you even see the last 2 seasons? They actually really confronted those issues and outright said that they weren’t really the good guys, the show tackled multiple times that the system is completely broken. I get if it was Law and Order being mad, but man you’re mad at the only cop show I’ve ever seen acknowledging and trying to tackle these issues. I mean, that’s literally why they made the captain gay and black, and that’s just one example.

Always nice to see a positive outcome, let’s hope they lose the appeal.

Weird, that didn’t happen to us, glad you caught it and figured it out though

Any YouTubes of their sets?