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  • Even for some individual contributor positions I budget to fly them in for a final interview. No access to AI, no ability to hide behind a bot. I’ve actually knocked some people out in the final round because they refused to meet in person.

    A few hundred to a thousand spent on travel up front is worth the insurance of the six-digit salary we offer.




  • I’m expecting this to fall flat on its face the same way Windows RT did.

    It’s an ARM based processor, which would be fine for Linux, but they keep mentioning Microsoft and Windows. Microsoft already tried an ARM approach but it failed because it had a very limited software set.

    Unlike Linux, almost all binaries are compiled for x86, not ARM. So companies would either have to supply their source code to compile on install, or compile ARM binaries in advance, which I don’t see a lot doing.

    Edit: they could also try x86 emulation, which would be even worse and would have its own compatibility and performance issues.



  • Our company did something similar, but you could bring your own (like a Fitbit) and it would sync its data from Fitbit. The thing it didn’t check was the type of data it was getting. The Fitbit app allowed you to manually enter data, not just data it captured from the device. So this got sync’d to the company app as if it was actual data since it didn’t mark it any differently.

    I would sit in bed at night and enter a random feasible number every time to hit my goals and get a cut of those sweet rewards.