People in a few hundred years are going to laugh about the laws created in late stage liberalism. The frenzy and idiocy makes things like beard taxes seem reasonable
Even if you're somewhere where the wind could give you 90% of your energy, you'll still need a reliable, baseline power source if you don't want everything to randomly shut down the other 10% of the time.
Wind + solar aren't as cheap as the LCOE makes it seem because you always have to pay for another source of power as baseline. If you added similar subsidies to natural gas it would be by far the cheapest energy source
Multiple hour coding assessments will work for people who are motivated for a new job. But every company wants "passive" candidates that are already working somewhere. If they're already (moderately) happy somewhere, they're not going to spend 3+ hours on your pre-process.
Companies that can identify talent without wasting the talent's time will be at a huge advantage
We want to be a full fledged talent agency for software engineers, and the first thing we're making better for engineers is the interview process. We help you design your own interview process to best show off your skills.
One of the things that make tech interviews so nondeterministic is that it's like taking a test where the teacher never told you what to study. With us you'll know exactly what and how many steps there are in every company's process, and what to prepare for - from the beginning.
A big part of this is negotiating with companies to create personalized technical interviews. Maybe you're an expert in Kafka, so you can give a small presentation on how they could be using it and do a Q&A with the team. Or you're good at getting up to speed quickly and want to show that off in some pair programming. We want creative processes that don't leave you feeling like you just went through a meat grinder.
Companies also want to test your knowledge in some way, so we work with them to get you a guide of what to prepare for. But no being peppered with random CS questions - you'll have a company specific guide on what is important to know for the role, and what you can expect and prepare for in the interview.
This has gotten a little long-winded, but would be interested in talking about what else sets us apart from Triplebyte / Hired, or anything else that comes up
(In my experience) in SF for programmers as long as you're there for standard / scheduled meetings you can come and go as you need. But that won't be as true for other locations or jobs that are less in demand
It's like the dihydrogen monoxide scare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax - you start using words like "chemicals", "industrial", "process" and people get worried. Even more so when you add "money" or "profit"