10. Police Photo.

Arrested for mass murder of the species known as Polychromos-278

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"Mit Work-Life-Balance können wir nicht unseren Wohlstand erhalten"

Die Work-Life-Balance *ist* unser Wohlstand, nicht Zahlen auf dem Konto.

I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions.

I’ve done take-home tests, in person challenges, pair programming with the candidates.

All of them were awful experiences for me and especially for the candidate.

I can only think of a single instance where a code challenge exposed a poor software engineer and I could definitely have made the same assessment just by talking to them.

Lately I’ve stopped doing any software or mental puzzles.

I don’t do any of that when I interview designers or QA people or HR people, so why would I be particularly toxic towards software engineers during the hiring process?

Instead, I actually read their resumes (which is significantly quicker than doing interviews, asking them to repeat the same information), and then I ask them questions like:

- Where do you get your tech news?
- How do you learn about new technologies?
- What do you most appreciate in your coworkers today?
- What is a perfect workday like for you?

I specifically avoid trap-style questions like “what is your greatest weakness?” or “why are you leaving your current job?”

I recommend that you make a plan for what you want to learn about the candidate, e.g. “are they good at acquiring new skills?” or “do they share the same values as the team?” and then structure the interview around that.

Be a non-toxic manager. Make your company look good during the interview process. Get better candidates.

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Watching scifi movies and seeing a character ask an AI to do or evaluate something hits different now.

I'm watching Alien: Covenant and the pilot just asked the spaceship AI how close they could get to the storm in the planet's atmosphere.

The AI answered 80 kilometres, which I assume at this point is a confidently wrong answer, probably pulled from an unattributed blogpost systems away about a different ship, different atmosphere, and different storm.

Oh my goodness I've just learned a thing about The Matrix that causes it to make a lot more sense: In the original script the humans were used as neural network compute clusters by the Machines and as a crucial component of The Matrix itself.

Which is why humans who were aware of the simulation could control aspects of The Matrix - their minds were part of its foundation.

Unfortunately the test audiences had trouble understanding this concept so the studio changed the human role to "batteries".

Grundregelwerk PDF “bezahle was Du willst”
Das Interesse an Pathfinder ist aktuell schon hoch und so hat sich Ulisses gedacht das man da vielleicht die potentiellen Interessenten noch ein wenig unterstützen kann. Aktuell gibt es das bereits sehr günstige Pathfinder Grundregelwerk PDF im "Digitalschuppen" mit der "bezahle was Du willst" Option.

https://www.ulisses-ebooks.de/product/300070/Pat
https://pathfinder2.de/2023/01/17/grundregelwerk-pdf-bezahle-was-du-willst/
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