Steve Yegge is usually a talented and entertaining writer. Having said that, his strengths lie in writing about computer science and far less in actually creating real systems. These predictions aren't very good (as…
A "history"? Does your history consist of a single patent lawsuit 13 years ago? Also subsequent to the lawsuit Jeff Bezos went on public record as identifying that as a mistake.…
There are some pretty simple solutions to the problems that you mention. For example, Amazon's bar raiser program was introduced specifically as a check to the power wielded by managers and to ensure a consistent hiring…
I'm also a "well-calibrated interviewer" at Amazon. I'm an engineer and a 'bar raiser' with 700+ interviews. My thoughts are: 1. Interviewing and evaluating a candidate has very, very little to do with engineering. Yes,…
Steve Yegge is usually a talented and entertaining writer. Having said that, his strengths lie in writing about computer science and far less in actually creating real systems. These predictions aren't very good (as…
A "history"? Does your history consist of a single patent lawsuit 13 years ago? Also subsequent to the lawsuit Jeff Bezos went on public record as identifying that as a mistake.…
There are some pretty simple solutions to the problems that you mention. For example, Amazon's bar raiser program was introduced specifically as a check to the power wielded by managers and to ensure a consistent hiring…
I'm also a "well-calibrated interviewer" at Amazon. I'm an engineer and a 'bar raiser' with 700+ interviews. My thoughts are: 1. Interviewing and evaluating a candidate has very, very little to do with engineering. Yes,…