Tobias Kildetoft

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Discussion on answer by Bryan Krause:…

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Tobias Kildetoft

Jul 12, 2024 02:31

@jnanin In that case I would assume that there is a budget for those fees and that it is not something a student should need to worry about at all.

Tobias Kildetoft

Jul 12, 2024 02:31

@HighGPA A submission fee for a math journal is something I have never heard of before. Needing to pay a fee purely to be able to submit a paper is highly suspect.

Discussion on question by strawberryc…

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Tobias Kildetoft

Dec 9, 2023 03:39

I think there a slight disconnect here. You informed the professor, but did the disability office also do so? You informing the professor should neither be necessary nor matter at all.

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Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 30, 2023 18:20

@leslietownes The two Gelfands have a category named after them together with Bernstein

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 30, 2023 18:18

@leslietownes Well, two famous Gelfand(s) in fact

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 7, 2023 15:53

@MagnusAlexander That statement looks equivalent to the full axiom of choice

Tobias Kildetoft

Dec 28, 2022 17:31

@TedShifrin You too

Tobias Kildetoft

Dec 28, 2022 17:19

@robjohn Good to see you are still here to keep things working

Tobias Kildetoft

Dec 28, 2022 16:37

Hello, everyone. Been a while since I was last here.

Discussion on question by JonathanRee…

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Tobias Kildetoft

Sep 17, 2022 18:43

This whole idea seems based on the presumption that having a higher rate of rejections is a huge hurdle, rather than the minor inconvenience it is of having to submit it several different places before acceptance.

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Tobias Kildetoft

Oct 30, 2021 17:38

"He found the Holy Grail or some other famous cup" - fantastic phrase.

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Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:58

Anyway, I am off to bed now.

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:51

Generally a very nice slack with a lot of knowledgeable people

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:50

You might also try the Slack on codingblocks.slack.com since there might be some people there better familiar with the German software marked

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:49

Yeah, might not be the interviewer (or might only be one of the interviewers)

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:48

Make sure you know what the words mean. There is the possibility that the person interviewing knows them properly

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:47

Agile (and Scrum) are very much buzz-words as well though.

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:47

That is just part of writing clean code

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:47

No, that is not part of agile development

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:46

Making sure that deliveries are smaller and more often so that feedback can be given in time and reacted to

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:46

Yeah, that is the basic idea

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:44

Neither word actually seems to be present anywhere near the front page

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:43

We do agile as well (and Scrum on some projects specifically), but it is not nearly as prominent on the website (netcompany.com)

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:42

Not sure how much Scrum varies from place to place, as I have not actually been on a project that did it yet.

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:41

Most companies have their own way of doing things

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:41

So definitely read up on how Scrum is structured

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:41

Though it does seem like they are very into Scrum, which is a very specific way to do agile (and technically breaks with most of the original tenets of the agile manifesto)

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:40

The best way to understand the idea behind agile is to understand what came before (waterfall)

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:40

Yeah, that did shine through on the website

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:38

(the position I interviewed for was as a consultant)

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:38

If the position is purely as a junior developer, then probably the question would be much more narrow

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:38

Not sure if they might do something similar, but with less expectations on the details provided

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:37

So that was the task, and most of the rest of the interview was me trying to say something intelligent about it

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:36

"Produce a design for this request and give an estimate of how long it will take to do"

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:35

"They would now like us to also add the possibility of polls on the site"

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:34

Second part was the technical interview. They gave me the following task: "The customer has a website that we run, but they manage the contents through an interface we provide which has some drag and drop features for various types of elements on the pages"

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:33

The interview was in two parts of about 1 hour each. First part was a general introduction to the company and how they do things as well as a bit of chat about who I was.

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:32

I can tell you a bit about the experience I had, though I am given to understand that it is somewhat atypical.

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:31

Ok, so they are not hiring for some specific project (which makes sense given that they are not looking for particularly experienced people)

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:30

Sure, could be every month too (that's what we do, with somewhere between 20 and 100 new hires per month)

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:29

Or possibly a combination

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:29

So they might hire specifically when they need people, or they might be hiring all the time and take anyone they find qualified

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:28

Though possibly not big enough to be able to take too many chances in hiring

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:28

Right, but still large enough to have the room it takes to actually train people

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:27

How large is the company?

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:27

I am very uncertain what sort of interview you would expect given what they look for

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:26

(the company I work for also hires both bachelor's and master's degree holders, but for different positions)

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:26

And they are fine with bachelor's degrees?

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:25

But generally, if they are ok with people without any real experience developing software, then what they look for is the ability to learn

Tobias Kildetoft

Jan 11, 2021 19:24

Well, my German is not good enough to properly go through their webpage to get an idea of what sort of person they are looking for