Lizzie Siegle

@lizziesiegle.com

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Developer 🥑advocate @ Cloudflare⛅️🔥, twin, mixed, car-free, yimby. 💕#gsw🎾📚🚴‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍💻

Reddit post on cscareerquestions: We hired 1 intern out of 10K applicants I work for a prominent growing AI startup that most people have heard of. I need to share something that blew my mind from our recent internship hiring round. Our goal was to hire 5 AI engineering and data science interns for the summer. We got freaking 10,000 applications for our summer internship program. TEN THOUSAND. After screening all that mess (using some AI tool I admit to sort / filter) we narrowed it down to around 200 people who seemed qualified enough for take-home coding challenges. Want to know the crazy part? Out of those 200 challenges, barely 10 people made it to the final interview round. And we ended up making just ONE offer when we wanted to hire 5 people. What was the dealbreaker? Almost nobody could explain their own damn code when we asked them about it. Like 99% of these candidates just vibe coded their way through the take-home challenge (let's be real - they used AI) without understanding what the hell they were submitting. I literally asked one candidate why they used a certain Python package and they had no idea what it did. On the on-site, we had to reject 9/10 candidates. Most of them when they got to the onsite just couldn't pass the bar. Part of the reason why we hired the one candidate that passed was because he showed some honesty. A few people in the hiring panel said that the candidate admitted that he had seen one or two of the questions on LeetCode / Interview Query. So they apparently asked him a different question and he was thoughtful about explaining the solution even though he missed getting one of them 100% right. So here's my PSA to anyone applying for tech jobs: Use AI all you want, but make sure you actually understand the code you're submitting. If you can't explain your approach or debug issues without AI holding your hand, you're gonna crash and burn in any decent technical interview.
Meme of Steph Curry doing a no-look three-pointer in an all star game. His caption is "dev using AI gateway, knowing their AI app is running smoothly" Nikola Jokic and other players are watching his shot go in. That caption is "Devs struggling w/ rate limits and slow response times." The ball going in is captioned "Optimized API calls, caching, and cost savings"
Mahomes getting squashed by eagles in Super Bowl
Severance meme with subtitles that say "The work is mysterious and important"
"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't met yet" - William Butler Yeats
Fluorescent jellyfish
I love the Smiths 500 days of summer meme. The top image is Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character saying "I love Transformers" while Zooey Deschanel's character says "me too." The bottom image is the same image, but his character has a picture of Transformers Optimus Prime with him and her character has an image of Transformer Neural Networks
404 house pizza restaurant storefront in Medellin surrounded by trees
Golden Gate Bridge sunset from Crissy field
Crowd of people at bay to breakers with costumes
Cyclists and Superman and kids with bikes in the street
People on bikes at night in streets of Oakland at stop light with lights and costumes and music
Bike party bikes with lights
Stack of books from the library running the gamut from housing to YA to self help to speculative fiction
Guy on bike with a paperback book folder into the water bottle holder