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How do you identify engineers who are extremly good when they work with headphones on in a semi-alone environment but bad at interviewing because they are surrounded by people watching them code and trying to get into their brains ?

I've seen it being used in quite a number of places now (specially startups) and I don't get why people use it over other stacks which might be easier to maintain and code. Here are couple of things that comes to mind

- Most startups have inexperienced people writing async code (which is hard) and make too many mistakes

- The reason Javascript is used in frontend let's use it for backend (even using the same programmer) seems flawed. Backend programming would require intimate knowledge of threads, mutexes, async and other things which a frontend programmer may not be familiar with so using the same programmer or language may be moot.

- Flaky drivers. Surely it works great with MongoDB but try using MariaDB, Postgres with concurrency and pooling and there are so many issues (async is hard ?).

- Is Node.js performance really that good when people start making mistakes and bugs arise that infact hinders performance. Why people move to Node.js when horizontal scaling can provide sufficient performance needed by most.

These are only couple of points, may be Hackernews can give more perspective towards why some of the people/companies choose Node.js with these flaws. Is it because it's new or the love of Javascript (designed in less than 1 month) is so much that it has bleed into the backend realm.

Please provide good references where one can learn:

- Finding memory leaks in browser

- Escaping sandbox and ASLR

- ROP (Rerturn oriented programming)

- Writing Shell Code

How many of you are in Canada but working for US company remotely ? If possible, please include

- How much are you making ?

- How did you find the company ?

- Name of the company.

I am wondering how many of you work part-time 10-20 hr freelancing or building other's MVP while still having a full-time job. Did you have to sign any agreement to the full-time employer for this ?

Starting to see quite a trend these days. People being denied of jobs not because of their skills but they are not of the same ethnicity from that of manager/interviewer. Apparently, being from the same country is a huge push in getting that job.

Not sure if this information is relayed all the way up to the CEO but the trend is definitely there mostly in managers/Sr. Engineers playing politics.

How often do you see this at your workplace ?

I've been keeping track and noticing hiring ads for a while now and have been sending my resume to quite a few companies lately. Some of them get back to me but there are many who never bother to reply. And these ads are lingering around for months. If they are not going to hire why advertise.

It all makes to think they are merely doing this for the marketing purpose of their company, product and to let everyone know they are working on cool stuff. Seems quite pathetic and this trend is prevalent these days.

What do you guys think ?