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Anec_Code_al Evidence
Personal blog · aneccodeal.blogspot.comcareerprogramming
Anec_Code_al Evidence is a personal blog at aneccodeal.blogspot.com about career and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a 2014 post about whiteboard coding interviews and the stress they cause. Commenters mention it in passing, as a memory, without judging its quality.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/02/interviewing-for-anxious-programmer.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-10
What Hacker News says?
My favorite interview process was with Wikimedia. It was a take-home coding project, which I then had to discuss with multiple engineers on the team over the course of four interviews (it was a remote position). I didn't get the job, but it was very enjoyable being able to work on something without someone watching me, and then being able to discuss my design decisions with different engineers who had different opin…
Comment linking /2014/02/interviewing-for-anxious-programmer.html
on “Take-home vs. whiteboard coding: The problem is bad interviews”Submitted Interviewing for the anxious programmer as a story · 40 points
HN discussionI always remember this old blog post: https://aneccodeal.blogspot.com/2014/02/interviewing-for-anx... I haven't done a whiteboarding interview for a while, but I remember them vividly. Hot flashes, sweating, stomach churning, anytime I'd be asked a question I am definitely capable of answering, my brain would shut down and refuse to start back up again. The most apt thing I could compare it to is stage fright. Even…
Comment linking /2014/02/interviewing-for-anxious-programmer.html
on “Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine”Submitted The Ephemeral Nature of Tech Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussion