I like people who are enthusiastic about tech. It is pretty easy to tell when you have 60 minutes with them.
We're here to build stuff and improve continuously and if someone can't do that or seems to be the type of person who needs hand holding (they don't seem like they can even attempt to think on their own) then its not a good fit.
I think the problem recently is that SWE became way too easy. It is the easiest job right now if you can grind out a couple months you can make 400k plus easily. If you can't or find a way to make excuses about why you can't yngmi and I'm not interested in speaking with you.
But if you agree with that sentiment, then you know the game is rigged and gamed. So it is now important to sniff out the fakers. So many people can memorize LC, and then you throw a small twist and their brain which they've turned into a nvme drive to memorize and fast lookup shit crashes because their brain is basically a dual core and 4gb ram with a ton of storage of shit.
I'd rather take the person who's got a workstation and can do shit, instead of the person who maxxed out storage.
What I see is, whether your mental model is wired for resilience. Programming is basically math with logical reasoning. Having this basic skill is must.
I always go for these fundamentals rather that heavy vibe coding.
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I like people who are enthusiastic about tech. It is pretty easy to tell when you have 60 minutes with them.
We're here to build stuff and improve continuously and if someone can't do that or seems to be the type of person who needs hand holding (they don't seem like they can even attempt to think on their own) then its not a good fit.
I think the problem recently is that SWE became way too easy. It is the easiest job right now if you can grind out a couple months you can make 400k plus easily. If you can't or find a way to make excuses about why you can't yngmi and I'm not interested in speaking with you.
But if you agree with that sentiment, then you know the game is rigged and gamed. So it is now important to sniff out the fakers. So many people can memorize LC, and then you throw a small twist and their brain which they've turned into a nvme drive to memorize and fast lookup shit crashes because their brain is basically a dual core and 4gb ram with a ton of storage of shit.
I'd rather take the person who's got a workstation and can do shit, instead of the person who maxxed out storage.
What I see is, whether your mental model is wired for resilience. Programming is basically math with logical reasoning. Having this basic skill is must. I always go for these fundamentals rather that heavy vibe coding.