jrbancel

Absolutely, the vast majority (95%+) of logs are never read by a human. Therefore, processing it is enormously wasteful. A good architecture will write once and not touch anything until it is needed.

I spent years working on system handling 50+PB/day of logs. No database or ELK can handle that, and even if it did it would be prohibitively expensive.

> Expect at minimum 2 Medium difficulty questions in a phone interview that need to be able to be solved in optimal space time complexity in under 45 mins

I see this being repeated on Leetcode and Blind, but it is not my experience at all.

In 2019, I got Senior level (L5/E5) offers from everywhere I applied, including Facebook and Google. I never solved more than a single medium problem in 45m-1h. I was asked a hard problem maybe twice, and not at FB & G.

I also interviewed 100+ candidates at Microsoft and Google. I have seen hundreds of interview questions and feedback reports and I simply can't corroborate that statement.

> Standing is denser than walking, so the throughput is greater

Doesn't this depend on the walking/standing density ratio and walking speed/escalator speed ratio?

Let say the walking density is 1/2 of the standing density. If the walkers walk at the speed of the escalator (i.e. their speed relative to the ground is 2x the speed of the escalator), then the throughput is the same.

Plenty of cars cheaper than a Porsche have a DCT.

Golf R, many Kia: e.g. a brand new Kia Soul for $22k.

"Automatic" is way to broad to be correct.

A DCT (Dual Clutch Transmission) like the Porsche PDK is not remotely comparable to a torque converter based transmission. Yet, both are categorized as "automatic".

In France, anyone can show up and participate to the manual counting.

It is done onsite so there is no risk of tempering.

If you wanted, you could stand next to the transparent ballot box the entire day and then count yourself.

The results are available a couple hours later. I can't think of any downside.

I have had the exact opposite experience.

The first thing I was asked when I interviewed with Microsoft was what I wanted to do and what I wanted to avoid. I said, no frontend, something related to distributed systems and they put me up for interviews with an Azure team.

With Google, it was like "interview first, accept the offer before knowing where you are going to be placed, and we will put you in some team".