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In contrast, Google has anti-spam as a core corporate competency. They know that where there is a profit motive, there will be spam.

I was able to volly back and forth with him until my competency became clear to him. Don't grill people with a technical interview about things you care about.

But my initial experience has been pretty bad, and I'm questioning their competency right now to the point where I can't give them money.

Yes, let's take the opportunity to condescendingly insult their mental competency. What does he even mean by saying that he doesn't "want to build my app" on top of harthur's code?

"unable to implement a simple linked list" "Vet the technical competency of full stack rails engineers&;&." because there are linked lists in ruby?

It's really easy when you are intelligent and your core competency is in high demand to view the entire world through rose colored lenses. You have so many choices of where to work that you are treated pretty good on the whole.

Honestly, FizzBuzz is meant as a test of basic programming competency. It's disqualifying when an engineer can't do it, but it's not anything to brag about.

It's completely fine if you don't find it interesting, but questioning his competency, or calling this approach conceited, is wrong.

Overpaying for a company at the moment when its core competency is becoming a commodity. Does anyone have the slightest bit of loyalty to Skype?

That's both no longer the case, and DC infrastructure's getting cheaper, both of which cut away at Google's core competency and advantage. • Google's lost its favored status among the technorati.

This is more about the technical competency of a specific company than general technical issues. Or, to put it bluntly, it's more "Mixpanel sucks at Erlang" than "Erlang sucks".

Keeping user files when the user assumes or wishes them to be kept safe is the core competency of a service like Dropbox." The user should have kept multiple redundant copies" is not an excuse for a poorly managed online backup service."

Now, I'm the first to point out that your ability to get a job does not 100% correlate with your competency, but there is certainly some correlation. Your company is going to be dramatically worse off if the people who have other options leave.

It's selfish, yes, but having students at more or less the same level of competency makes it easier for them to do the task to which they've been set. When I was in school, the teacher would often say "Sequoia, that's a great question, but it's a bit advanced and I've got 30 other students here.

Also, contrary to common sentiment, there is no minimum competency level that grants you the privilege of saying "I don't understand." Ignorance is not a monopoly of the elite.

What possible reason could Facebook have to purchase a company so far removed from its core competency? People in the /r/oculus reddit are already expressing strong feelings of betrayal - eighty comments in under ten minutes, none positive.

We know he found a wallet bug so that immediately gives away what level of competency/expertise to look for on the bitcoin forums which he undoubtedly posts there too. How he discovered the site is relevant and will give away how long he has been on bitcointalk since the orig dpr advertised there.