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"Invited" is a strong word when almost all of those students were legacy admissions.

I think the 'correct' (from the perspective of getting an interview) approach would be to personalize your resume to include skills that are called out in the listing, even if you've just read a tutorial on it. Not to list a ton of irrelevant skills.

An example would be if you had 5 years of experience in AWS and only a few tutorials of GCP for experience, but the listing specifically wants GCP skills, you list it.

Not a case where you have 5 years of backend experience and start applying to senior frontend positions because you went through a React tutorial.

I've gotten some complements for my resume's layout and it's basically the exact opposite of that.

It's based off of some latex template that looks roughly like this: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/cv-template-using-t...

> no rainbow emojis

So it's not possible to be openly gay and hire-able?

I mean, sure, that must be true for some companies but I wouldn't want to work at those anyway.

edit: on second read, this might come off as more aggressive than I wanted, and the rest of the post is pretty good, but this part just stood out to me

Maybe it's just sour grapes from me, but it feels like a lot of these acquisitions are for has-been companies that were great 10+ years ago but haven't had much success lately. Bethesda, Double Fine, and now Activation Blizzard.

Reminds me of this youtube vid I saw about him recently, titled "harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI

Just to add to this, I feel like there's a ton of ways to "accidentally" introduce a lot of bias in hiring: referring everyone from your college's club to the company, brain teasers that require some irrelevant cultural background, mandatory in office/remote cultures, off site decisions. Heck I even saw a company that advertised that they go surfing together every weekend for bonding.

I'm not sure what can be done with these cases, and I know people, of various protected out-groups, that have specifically mentioned those as reasons not to join a company.

Gentlemen, you can't advocate for war here, this is the defense room!

She?

Not a lawyer, but doesn't linking to Wikipedia indirectly link to a copy of the license?

Sounds like something out of "The Four Hour Workweek"

Welcome to Q3 I guess. I'm going to be spending a large part of this time backing up various sites and creators that I want to keep track of, since I feel like this is going to get worse.

Another day of this, and this specific event (not counting the other outages) will bring Twitter down to two-nines of availability since the acquisition/layoffs.

I recently interviewed at a place where the interviewers kept calling me bro or dude, so maybe they'll match with each other at some point.

Without wanting to get into a discussion of the gender-neutrality of those words, I'm not a man and everyone that I talked with there was, and it just felt odd.

Don't forget when Reddit attacked Reddit two weeks ago.

Late response, but in Q1 I got about 3 call backs, 2 turned into a full "onsite" loop, but both seem to have ended from things I couldn't control (position closed because startup's product launch got pushed back by almost a year; layoffs/weird decisions around monetization announced a month or two later.)

Q2 I feel like my resume response rate is better, and I've had 4-5 "onsite" loops, which got me 1 reject and 3 (all in June) where I'm waiting for a response.

5 years of experience at no name startups in data science/mle, hard req for fully remote positions, visibly part of a controversial minority.

You're blaming this on the CEO ... hiring women?

Oh yes, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia are great as long as you don't need to get an abortion, aren't religious, gay, or non-white.

You may be interested in reading about the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. [1].

[1] https://www.vhemt.org/

but also, yes, I totally agree with you that some of this "oh you're a late bloomer, you'll want to do it when your older" stuff comes off as condescending if you actually just don't want to own a house with 2.5 kids.

But updating all your github commits to your new name is a pain. :(

One thing I've envious about former Twitter employees is that they have a lot of evidence that they weren't laid off because of anything they actually did. Really helps with the "why are you leaving your current position?" kind of questions.

Reddit's going to get rid of remote work, but give Spez a private room to do boy stuff in?

Yeah, a good AB testing framework would either refuse to let you break things down too much or have a large warning about the results not being significant, but that doesn't always stop the business-types from trying to wiggle in some way for them to show a win.

Sounds like they're not Team Players if they give you feedback you Simply Do Not Want To Hear!

For those that don't want to cross the picket line to read:

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced a policy change that will kill essentially every third-party Reddit app now operating, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader, leaving Reddit's official mobile app as the only usable option; an app widely regarded as poor quality, not handicap-accessible, and very difficult to use for moderation.

In response, nearly nine thousand subreddits with a combined reach of hundreds of millions of users have made their outrage clear: we blacked out huge portions of Reddit, making national news many, many times over. in the process. What we want is crystal clear.

Reddit has budged microscopically. The announcement that moderator access to the 'Pushshift' data-archiving tool would be restored was welcome. But our core concerns still aren't satisfied, and these concessions came prior to the blackout start date; Reddit has been silent since it began.

300+ subs have already announced that they are in it for the long haul, prepared to remain private or otherwise inaccessible indefinitely until Reddit provides an adequate solution. These include powerhouses like:

    /r/aww (34.1m)
    /r/music (32.3m)
    /r/videos (26.6m)
    /r/futurology (18.7m)

Such subreddits are the heart and soul of this effort, and we're deeply grateful for their support. Please stand with them if you can. If you need to take time to poll your users to see if they're on-board, do so - consensus is important. Others originally planned only 48 hours of shutdown, hoping that a brief demonstration of solidarity would be all that was necessary.

But more is needed for Reddit to act:

    Huffman says the blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact” and that the company anticipates that many of the subreddits will come back online by Wednesday. “There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well,” the memo reads.

We recognize that not everyone is prepared to go down with the ship: for example, /r/StopDrinking represents a valuable resource for a communities in need, and the urgency of getting the news of the ongoing war out to /r/Ukraine obviously outweighs any of these concerns. For such communities, we are strongly encouraging a new kind of participation: a weekly gesture of support on "Touch-Grass-Tuesdays”. The exact nature of that participation- a weekly one-day blackout, an Automod-posted sticky announcement, a changed subreddit rule to encourage participation themed around the protest- we leave to your discretion.

To verify your community's participation indefinitely, until a satisfactory compromise is offered by Reddit, respond to this post with the name of your subreddit, followed by 'Indefinite'. To verify your community's Tuesdays, respond to this post with the name of your subreddit, followed by 'Solidarity'.

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The community's list of demands:

    API technical issues
    Accessibility for blind people
    Parity in access to NSFW content

API technical issues

    Allowing third-party apps to run their own ads would be critical (given this is how most are funded vs subscriptions). Reddit could just make an ad SDK and do a rev split.
    Bringing the API pricing down to the point ads/subscriptions could realistically cover the costs.
    Reddit gives the apps time to make whatever adjustments are necessary
    Rate limits would need to be per user+appkey, not just per key.
    Commitment to adding features to the API; image uploads/chat/notifications.

Accessibility for blind people

    Lack of communication. The official app is not accessible for blind people, these are not new issues and blind and visually impaired users have relied on third-party apps for years. Why were disabled communities not contacted to gauge the impact of these API changes?
    You say you've offered exemptions for "non-commercial" and "accessibility apps." Despite r/blind's best efforts, you have not stated how they are selected. r/blind compiled a list of apps that meet users' access needs.
    You ask for what you consider to be a fair price for access to your API, yet you expect developers to provide accessible alternatives to your apps for free. You seem to be putting people into a position of doing what you can't do while providing value to your company by keeping users on the platform and addressing a PR issue. Will you be paying the developers of third-party apps that serve as your stopgap?

Parity in access to NSFW content

    There have been attempts by devs to talk about the NSFW removal and how third-party apps are willing to hook into whatever "guardrails" (Reddit's term) are needed to verify users' age/identity. Reddit is clearly not afraid of NSFW on their platform, since they just recently added NSFW upload support to their desktop site. Third-party apps want an opportunity to keep access to NSFW support (see https://redd.it/13evueo).

Please also note that not all NSFW content is just pornography. There are many times that people seeking help or sharing stories about abuse or medical conditions must also mark their posts NSFW. However, even if this were strictly about porn, Reddit shouldn't take a stance that it's OK for them but not any other apps, especially when demanding exorbitant fees from these 3rd part devs.

I'm so happy that this Reddit stuff is giving HN something to talk about other than ChatGPT.

I feel like some of the "smaller" communities can't really have their mods replaced without some work. Programming subreddits need mods with the right programming background to make executive decisions like banning the next NFT-like scheme, for example, which a generic person going through posts and deciding if it's against the TOS couldn't do.

source? old.reddit still works for me

edit: but yes, if gp has 15 years of his life documented on there, and he wants to keep it, I'd suggest making an offsite backup asap.

I would guess that they'll sell it as "we were able to monetize our api and all it cost us were a small subset of users, which are more likely to use ad blockers anyway" and then try to hand it off to the public before the long term effects of those changes happens.

Something related to this? https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110503050993279759