harish_yadav

Curiously, what is that day job?

One of the advices that I often give is to watch YouTube videos of creators explaining the solution or mock interviews before going into an interview.

Just watching the YouTuber explain an algorithm or their approach to problem solving can help you get into the zone of thinking out loud that helps you talk with logical flow & coherence at interviews.

I have found this is the fastest to approach what you are aiming for. The more you practice the better you will be.

It's surprising how acclimatized people are to bad hiring practices that good treatment seems fishy.

We at UpSkillie, help companies hire engineers by certifying with a round of interviews. Candidates win because now they get someone vouching for them past the gatekeepers.

For a 1yr experience developer, one of our client just took a single round of interview after our recommendation and made an offer the same day, the exact amount the candidate wanted.

The candidate didn't join this company this company because he felt the HR process wasn't streamlined as he got an offer in just one interview. He settled for a 20% lower offer.

We asked him that if he wishes we can set a meeting with leadership if he wanted. But he just didn't feel it right because the process was fast.

There was proper introduction before the technical interview, so there is no chance of lack of familiarisation.

Yet, I feel not everyone is technically literate enough.

This could very be a risk. I was using Chrome when I found this out, I wasn't given any such warning.

It'd be good with chrome can offer some discouragement to these.

I think it would be safe to remove the bulk verification function from this.

I have built this same project with Whatsapp Web and have played with this approach to it's limits.

Whatsapp Web has started to count the number of Whatsapp Web requests you are making and if it exceeds a threshold they will just block your number with no support to reach to.

This feature was heavily abused in Indian general assembly elections and led to a lot of spam alerting Whatsapp to setup checks on this.

Would recommend adding a cautionary note.

This where I would like people to consider the Psychological concepts of Focussed Mind and Diffused mode of thinking. Barbara Oakley's course on Coursera named, "Learning how to learn" talks a lot about it. It is an interesting read and would totally recommend it.

So a parallel to the Top Idea in your mind would be a diffused mode of thinking stuck on a single problem. The course touches a lot on this.

We at UpSkillie.com take a lot of interviews to screen developers. We found that it is tough to gauge someone's ability to get the job done. What we would often find is that guys often fail at the conventional interviewing methods like DS & Algo questions or even timed tests but excel assignment tasks. Most often these guys are self-taught programmers and can get the job done but lack the fundamental knowledge of things.

They are always the toughest to decide upon, as you feel like you don't want to lose them but they also exhibit a lack of knowledge that might impact their problem-solving skills in future. So what we experimented with was giving a times University Style Paper Submission upon a topic they might learn a lot on or need to learn. If they turn the paper in say the next 24 or 48 hours they are in. As they have exhibited diligence and ability to learn quickly. It always gets us the best of the candidates. It might also stem from my wish to give people a chance to succeed even if they have neglected things previously.

For cheap and no bullshit experience, I would recommend DigitalOcean. Their simplicity always amazes me

That is also what kept me away from it. I love all of their features it is price bracket that force me away. I love their SmartSync but that's not enough to make me buy a 2TB plan.

So now I am using an extension to make iCloud work a lot like SmartSync