Leaving aside the non-trivial question of candidate nervousness in live coding, I do find the "ask questions about take-home" process very illuminating.
If it came from a friend or chatGPT, you'll learn that quickly because you can ask them stuff like "show me how you're implementing FOO. OK, if the requirements change, and now we need to BAR, what do you need to change across the app?" If they wrote the code and understood the task, they should understand what needs to change, how to do it, etc, and you can do that part with them live. Maybe someday LLMs will be fast enough that you can't catch someone constantly waiting for the AI to help them, at least as of May 2025 we're not there yet.
I just downloaded it and tested it out. It really is a very cool, polished product.
The video cuts when you remove "uh" and "um" are too jarring for anything professional, but OTOH for some internal work stuff I could see a use for this. And as someone who has used 0 video editing software, I was able to start making changes within like a minute, which I think is quite impressive.
That said, not sure I have enough use case to pay for it, personally.
NB: it's kind of impossible to prove you're not a sock puppet, because of _course_ a sock puppet account would say they're not a sock puppet account.
I understand your PoV, but I like to stronnnnnngly encourage 1:1s every week, with each team member. I think it's really easy to let that slip if it's not in the calendar, and I've learned so many important, small things from people in those meetings.
Especially since some people don't really feel comfortable coming to their manager out of band. That makes the structure of "I have a block scheduled you with every week, in perpetuity" super valuable.
Agree with the loose agenda. I try to follow-up on things that came up in previous weeklies, and to make sure we don't forget about commitments, but so much of the value comes from a simple "How are you doing?"
In North and South America, and in other European cities (though certainly not all!), my experience has been that Uber is 99% of the time
1. better UX, and
2. cheaper
than taxis, _generally_. In Berlin, taxi service is generally professional/clean/fine, but it's quite expensive, and when I travel to other places I get quickly spoiled by the Uber experience/cost. I understand why they ban it here, but from an end-user perspective, really wish they didn't.
That’s fair, but surely the concept of sharing music with friends isn’t so crazy? Not saying it was necessarily handled well here, but it seems like a feature many would and do want.
It's a complicated issue to be sure, but developers also benefit from a platform that has high trust among users. I think users are probably much more likely to try out new apps and even pay for them if they know ahead of time that the apps been vetted, the payment processor is secure (and already has your details), etc.
Not that there isn't crap on the iOS App Store, but I don't think it's controversial to suggest that the Good to Bad App ratio is better there than on the web as a whole.
Devil’s advocate: what _is_ wrong with that logic? If we accept that customs can search our persons or luggage as a condition of our entering a given country, what is it about digital materials that makes them off limits?
WE ARE UBERALL – We are a tech-startup from Berlin that develops Europe's leading Geomarketing Platform.
It is our mission to contribute to this evolution by bringing online everything that's local, to provide complete and accurate information whenever and wherever needed - On our phones and on our tablets. On our PCs and in our in-car GPS systems. On websites and in apps. For known use-cases and upcoming opportunities.
We are a very ambitious company and are proud to focus on engineering. By now we have a very professional, skilled and fun team. Our tech stack is built on Groovy and Grails + enterprise proven technologies like Hibernate, Tomcat, Redis on the back-end side, and HTML5, JavaScript (ES2015, React, Redux, etc.), LESS, dogfooding our own REST API on the front-end.
We are looking for Frontend Engineers (m/f) to support our tech team. You will be working closely with product development and be responsible for turning their wildest dreams into reality.
About you:
- You take ownership of your work, & for you a feature is done when it makes using the product a better experience for all users
- Passion for all things in the browser, experience with modern frontend web technologies
- Creativity! We're open here, and if you've got a great idea, we want to know about it
- You understand the importance of quality and testing, you value automated testing as much as we do and see it as an integral part of the process
- You value maintainability, so clean & organized code goes without saying
What you would do at uberall:
- Build extensible widgets, pushing for the simplest integration of our latest functionality
- Develop our web-apps that our customers use every day to manage anywhere from 50 to 10s of thousands of business listings
- Build a reference connection to our extensive Rest API that both our partners and our own client apps us
That's nice when possible, but of course when something breaks you never know if it will be one hour or 30, and even then, I think there are a lot of cases where "let the developer know there's an issue" is still worth it, especially if the alternative is "drop it and say nothing because it's too much of a hassle."
Hey guessmyname, I'm surprised to hear that. As an expat working/living in Berlin for the last 5 years or so that hasn't been my experience.
Also, my current company has been hiring for a while now, and we may be an outlier, but we get lots of applications from people outside the EU and always take them seriously. We've helped several people go through the visa process already.
Your email is not in your profile, but my company is hiring :) feel free to hit me up at david.carter [at] uberall [dot] com
I can't find the link now, but I remember reading about a paper (probably through Marginal Revolution) that showed that, in the GDR, because men and women worked equally and earned equally (in the general case, party leaders aside), a lot of cultural gender equality just became the norm. E.g. men couldn't impress women with nice cars or any of the other status symbols that are so common in the West, and had to 'convince potential mates' through their personalities and actions.
So a lot of the gender roles of the West were basically obliterated, i.e. there was no real stay-at-home mother in the GDR, all mothers were working mothers. Seems to fit your experience, and the GP as well.
WE ARE UBERALL – We are a tech-startup from Berlin that develops Europe's leading Geomarketing Platform.
It is our mission to contribute to this evolution by bringing online everything that's local, to provide complete and accurate information whenever and wherever needed - On our phones and on our tablets. On our PCs and in our in-car GPS systems. On websites and in apps. For known use-cases and upcoming opportunities.
We are looking for Frontend Engineers (m/f) to support our tech team. You will be working closely with product development and be responsible for turning their wildest dreams into reality.
About you:
- You take ownership of your work, & for you a feature is done when it makes using the product a better experience for all users
- Passion for all things in the browser, experience with modern frontend web technologies (We use Bootstrap, Backbone, React, LESS, Babel)
- Creativity! We're open here, and if you've got a great idea, we want to know about it
- You understand the importance of quality and testing, you value automated testing as much as we do and see it as an integral part of the process
- You value maintainability, so clean & organized code goes without saying
- We want to see something you’ve done: on Github, Stack Overflow, at your previous company, etc
What you will do at uberall:
- Maintain our website, our number one promotional tool. We need it to be clear, look great, load fast, and most importantly, effectively explain what we do
- Develop our web-apps that our customers use every day to manage anywhere from 50 to 10s of thousands of business listings
- Build a reference connection to our extensive Rest API that both our partners and our own client apps use
Just send your application containing all relevant documentation (including past projects, GitHub & stackoverflow links, etc) and we will get in touch soon.
WE ARE UBERALL – We are a tech-startup from Berlin that develops Europe's leading Geomarketing Platform.
It is our mission to contribute to this evolution by bringing online everything that's local, to provide complete and accurate information whenever and wherever needed - On our phones and on our tablets. On our PCs and in our in-car GPS systems. On websites and in apps. For known use-cases and upcoming opportunities.
We are looking for Frontend Engineers (m/f) to support our tech team. You will be working closely with product development and be responsible for turning their wildest dreams into reality.
About you:
- You take ownership of your work, & for you a feature is done when it makes using the product a better experience for all users
- Passion for all things in the browser, experience with modern frontend web technologies (We use Bootstrap, Backbone, React, LESS, Babel)
- Creativity! We're open here, and if you've got a great idea, we want to know about it
- You understand the importance of quality and testing, you value automated testing as much as we do and see it as an integral part of the process
- You value maintainability, so clean & organized code goes without saying
- We want to see something you’ve done: on Github, Stack Overflow, at your previous company, etc
What you will do at uberall:
- Maintain our website, our number one promotional tool. We need it to be clear, look great, load fast, and most importantly, effectively explain what we do
- Develop our web-apps that our customers use every day to manage anywhere from 50 to 10s of thousands of business listings
- Build a reference connection to our extensive Rest API that both our partners and our own client apps use
Just send your application containing all relevant documentation (including past projects, GitHub & stackoverflow links, etc) and we will get in touch soon.