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Yeah, the other week social media was full of people mentioning how bad it's for their brand. (I didn't read one positive thing)

But I guess they are doing what's necessary. ICEs are on long-term decline, car companies are now officially struggling since last week. (VW, BMW, ...) It's not that electric cars are doing too well either at the moment but especially if such a luxury company wants to make it into the next 10-20 years, they need something. I guess the customers they are targeting are mega hedonists that don't want to be judged for bad ethical choices (even if there's some wiggleroom). Probably it hits the Zeitgeist, reminds me a little of the Paris Olympic game show

Granted, this is a concept car and the real car for the market is likely a little less pronounced (probably including a speedometer :D)

A js-free version is nice though

Thanks for the comment. Yeah good point, I really miss people with the 8-5 mindset. At the moment there are too many people who just throw things over the wall, giving me nightmares once a month. (And users hate it) Already settled for something smaller but that definitely makes me feel better with my decision.

In Europe it's actually quite standard to give take home challenges (1-3h) and leetcode tasks are rare but becoming more common. Also many companies only do 1 or 2 rounds of interviews. (HR and technical) One could also argue that to prepare for leetcode style interviews much more time needs to be invested upfront, at least if it's not easy questions.

I would probably not want to avoid any challenge at all, but 1-2h seems reasonable to me. (live or take home)

This sounds interesting. Actually my job before was also in a large org and while there was a coding part, it was very basic. (String splitting, joining, a design/modelling task and pair programming on the actual code with the team lead) That team was quite large and everybody contributed their part.

Anyway in the current company the actual day-to-day challenges are figuring out things in the Linux ecosystem and also getting things done.

Working culture is rather demanding and things tend to be quite ambigious, so to be honest the challenge reflects reality to some degree. But our team works with niche technology and therefore the pressure doesn't fully apply to our small'ish team. (Honestly, I wouldn't recommend the position to a not so experienced engineer or someone who doesn't know how to limit their working hours.)

Good point, I fully agree with you. Didn't come up with it myself but it has been used for years already but I think HR also complained about it.

Actually I did the challenge a year ago and it was only circumstantial that I didn't decline. Yet, we need a good replacement for the challenge (or the whole interview process) because most of the workload is on me at the moment.

Verstehe... kein problem ;) Ja aber ganz ehrlich, wenn das nicht behoben wird, sehe ich für Lemmy keine wirkliche Zukunft. Zumindest nicht als Reddit-Ersatz, wer soll das denn benutzen :D

Das mit den unterschiedlichen Instanzen ist riesig

Actually I once applied for a job at Reddit, there were like 5 or 6 interviews spread over 2 days basically. And almost everyone I talked to did something related to Ads. (The position I was considered for would have been about some service to deal with problematic posts, hate etc.) So it's just a huge ad machine.

This reminds me also about this Facebook documentary from 2 years ago, how ML algorithms implicitly shape how we interact. Maybe such efforts were better put into good moderation (oof), and a well-working UI...

That said, I wouldn't mind paying a little and already even did so to give awards and also for an App. (Can't be that much they earn with ads anyway?) I hope Lemmy is there to stay though, I'd be happy to donate/contribute every once in a while.

LibreOffice, I came for Linux support and PDF export... and stayed for the only Office that I know how to use 😄

Naja Pegida ist jetzt nicht unbedingt das Maß aller Dinge. (Sind die nicht in der gleichen Zeit wie Hogesa entstanden?)

Klar ist es willkürlich aber die Identifikationsmöglichkeiten liegen definitiv näher als "Deutscher" (Mein Gott, wie sich das schon anhört...) Aber ausgehend von der EU und allem was drum rum entstanden ist, ist die Idee deutlich moderner...