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href=/2015/11/welcome>Welcome, and an algorithm</a></ul></div></nav></aside><main class="col col--7"><article><header><h1 class=title_f1Hy>More "what companies really mean"</h1><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime=2018-12-04T12:00:00.000Z>December 4, 2018</time> · <!-- -->2 min read</div><div class="margin-top--md margin-bottom--sm row"><div class="col col--12 authorCol_Hf19"><div class="avatar margin-bottom--sm"><div class="avatar__intro authorDetails_lV9A"><div class=avatar__name><span class=authorName_yefp>Bradlee Speice</span></div><div class=authorSocials_rSDt><a href=https://github.com/bspeice target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer" class=authorSocialLink_owbf title=GitHub><svg viewBox="0 0 256 250" width=1em height=1em class="authorSocialLink_owbf githubSvg_Uu4N" style=--dark:#000;--light:#fff preserveAspectRatio=xMidYMid><path d="M128.001 0C57.317 0 0 57.307 0 128.001c0 56.554 36.676 104.535 87.535 121.46 6.397 1.185 8.746-2.777 8.746-6.158 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<a href=https://angel.co/blog/what-startups-really-mean-by-why-should-we-hire-you target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer">What Startups Really Mean By "Why Should We Hire You?"</a>.
Having been interviewed by smaller companies (though not exactly startups), the questions and
subtexts are the same. There's often a question behind the question that you're actually trying to
answer, and I wish I spotted the nuance earlier in my career.</p>
<p>Let me also make note of one more question/euphemism I've come across:</p>
<h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id=how-do-you-feel-about-production-support>How do you feel about production support?<a href=#how-do-you-feel-about-production-support class=hash-link aria-label="Direct link to How do you feel about production support?" title="Direct link to How do you feel about production support?">​</a></h2>
<p><strong>Translation</strong>: <em>We're a fairly small team, and when things break on an evening/weekend/Christmas
Day, can we call on you to be there?</em></p>
<p>I've met decidedly few people in my life who truly enjoy the "ops" side of "devops". They're
incredibly good at taking an impossible problem, pre-existing knowledge of arcane arts, and turning
that into a functioning system at the end. And if they all left for lunch, we probably wouldn't make
it out the door before the zombie apocalypse.</p>
<p>Larger organizations (in my experience, 500+ person organizations) have the luxury of hiring people
who either enjoy that, or play along nicely enough that our systems keep working.</p>
<p>Small teams have no such luck. If you're interviewing at a small company, especially as a "data
scientist" or other somesuch position, be aware that systems can and do spontaneously combust at the
most inopportune moments.</p>
<p><strong>Terrible-but-popular answers include</strong>: <em>It's a part of the job, and I'm happy to contribute.</em></div></article><nav class="pagination-nav docusaurus-mt-lg" aria-label="Blog post page navigation"><a class="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--prev" href=/2018/10/case-study-optimization><div class=pagination-nav__sublabel>Older post</div><div class=pagination-nav__label>A case study in heaptrack</div></a><a class="pagination-nav__link pagination-nav__link--next" href=/2018/12/allocation-safety><div class=pagination-nav__sublabel>Newer post</div><div class=pagination-nav__label>QADAPT - debug_assert! for allocations</div></a></nav></main><div class="col col--2"><div class="tableOfContents_bqdL thin-scrollbar"><ul class="table-of-contents table-of-contents__left-border"><li><a href=#how-do-you-feel-about-production-support class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">How do you feel about production support?</a></ul></div></div></div></div></div><footer class=footer><div class="container container-fluid"><div class="footer__bottom text--center"><div class=footer__copyright>Copyright © 2024 Bradlee Speice</div></div></div></footer></div>
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