In my experience that's true mostly of large companies that have very standardized interview process. All the startups I worked at so far had some kind of coding question but it was not very leetcode-y and more conversational; Trying to get your thoughts about how you'd solve the problem and assess whether you had the right intuitions about software challenges.
I'd encourage you to exercise your network and see if you can find a small to mid-size company that does something interesting to you. You'll likely have a much higher success rate!
I think it's partially true and I definitely fall under the category that hates to sink hours into searching for the best YYY where YYY is a random $30 item.
But I don't necessarily want less choice, I just want something/someone I can trust. If I could just believe that the "amazon choice" was actually tested thoroughly and matched a quality standard I can get behind, then I'd happily get the "amazon choice" of most things.
That's the kind of projects we need to get where we need to be in terms of emissions. It won't be easy, but clever solutions where there is real $$ incentives are the ones that can actually be implemented!
Musk is the entrepreneur version of "Move fast; break things" - something like "Make it happen; no matter the cost" kind of guy. Leaving a trail of burnt out/injured employees and other negative externalities is just his way of "getting shit done".
Not sure how much or how little impact he'll have in the future direction of Twitter, but if I worked there I'd be a bit concerned!
Then you'd only ever get candidates that can afford to have a "maybe job" for a while until they get out with no pay check. I'd definitely not work for a company with that arrangement. Unless there is some guarantee they pay you until you land your next thing (within reasonable timeframes).
I'd love if OP had more details on how they ask "great questions that give her a lot of signal about the candidate’s skills while ensuring the candidate always feels comfortable and confident". I hate passing interviews and as a result try my best to be a chill interviewer, but I yet have to find good conversational questions that get me confidence in ones' coding abilities.
Somewhat tangential topic, but ... It's interesting to me how most of the companies with real transformative potential have very little need for (dedicated) software engineers.
I think half of that is that most other engineering professions now come with some non negligible coding skill and the other half is simply that "software can solve anything" is a plain and simple lie.
I can't help but feel a little left out of innovation with "just" software skills. Am I too sorry for myself or is that a shared feeling?
The space race was a wild time. "Accessory to War" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a fun and easy read that talks about some pretty sketchy things. And it's nothing new either, the whole WW2 showed in full display that leaving the military leverage science is a dangerous pandora box.
They might just have gotten a "wow these guys have no shame and can sell anything while stabbing your mother in front of you without you batting an eye" feeling that many people in the SV circles like to glorify.
I'm suspicious because oftentimes things are more complex than a single source. These articles all point to a single prop (47) and seem to really point out to shoplifting. At the same time the homelessness increased 14% from 2016 to 2017. So is there more crime because of lawmaking or more crime because more desperate people with seemingly no other recourse?
Not claiming to know better, but when it comes to social issue I'd stay away from claiming "mathematical" like correlations. Just my 2c :)
It'll probably take a crash and burn of a few big names with VCs being very careful about any new company in that space. I could see something come up that'd be bootstrapped and just slowly gain business in a big metro area before becoming a "thing". Def going to remain a low margin business though so it won't be easy to make it healthy