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schwarzmx | 4 years ago | on: Amazon Pip Horror Story

My impression as a former SDE was that it's already accounted for. Hoards of new hires from college join each year and the hiring process is getting cheaper for that pipeline. I think they know that while increasing throughput in the hiring pipeline they're also letting in some low performers, so PIP is one mechanism to shed some weight.

schwarzmx | 4 years ago | on: DynamoDB 10 years later

This one is pretty good for DynamoDB: https://youtu.be/yvBR71D0nAQ

schwarzmx | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: I've lost faith in myself as a developer, how do I get it back?

I also worked there and what I like about the phrasing in the quote above is that it surfaces the possibility of turning a one-way-door into a two-way-door.

schwarzmx | 5 years ago | on: The Harm of Studying Abroad

To me it comes down to the language barrier. Not having a good command of English (or the local language) hinders your ability to integrate with the locals. Learning English for a person from a Western country is way easier than for a Chinese person.

schwarzmx | 5 years ago | on: A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition

> Would be great to see Amazon's support.

From one of the links on the left of the article: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/amazon-donates-10-millio...

> Update, June 9: Since announcing our $10 million donation, we’ve heard many employees are making their own contributions—and we’ve decided to match their donations 100% up to $10,000 per employee to these 12 organizations until July 6, 2020.

schwarzmx | 6 years ago | on: System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server

At what point does solving these "new" problems become reinventing the wheel?

schwarzmx | 8 years ago | on: Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks

They didn't say to buy Amazon stocks.

schwarzmx | 9 years ago | on: Types of Engineers

It's a pretty well known term in agile software development.

schwarzmx | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What to do after failing final interviews twice?

Like others said - keep trying. I was rejected by both companies once, and now I work for Amazon. You get better with time.

Also, both companies have quite different styles of interviews (whiteboard programming aside). Really pay attention to what the recruiters suggest to study up before the interview.

schwarzmx | 10 years ago | on: Feeding Graph databases – a third use-case for modern log management platforms

I guess that answers my question.

FWIW Developer/Enterprise versions are free to try and Community doesn't expire.

schwarzmx | 10 years ago | on: Feeding Graph databases – a third use-case for modern log management platforms

Have you tried Stardog [1]? Stardog can handle billions of triples and the upload process is pretty painless.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of Stardog.

[1] http://stardog.com/

schwarzmx | 10 years ago | on: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

Works similarly in Germany, with the difference that 4.0 is the lowest passing grade and 1.0 is the highest.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_Germany

schwarzmx | 10 years ago | on: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

I don't see how one professor makes the entire program.

FWIW I did my masters there and in my opinion the way they evaluate students is suboptimal anyway - but I don't know if that's a TUM thing or a German thing.