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China is as bad as US. Period.
I can only talk about my experience, not sure how it reflects the whole industry. But all the big companies I applied for had a multistep recruitment process. On the other hand, the company I work for at the moment, was more than chill during the interview process. I had two interviews, one with the HR 3rd party and one with the CTO and the founder. I didn’t do any homework and most of the time we talked was a casual small talk with some tech questions. The more I think about that conversation, the more I think that I didn’t read between the lines. I guess the people who I talked to were really good t judging the character.
I have a few Crofton dutch ovens. I got it from Aldi on various discount days. I think you can find the pots and pans on Amazon. The price and the quality are pretty good. I use my dutch ovens to bake bread and to make a cheese. So far, no issues.
Windows - if it’s possible I only run security updates and postpone all other until there’s no other way. I use Windows only for gaming and because I don’t have much spare time I don’t want to waste it on updates.
Linux - security fixes on a daily basis, all other updates I postpone as long as possible. I was using Linux as my daily driver but the amount of issues I ran into due to updates was too much for me.
macOS - security fixes immediately, minor updates few days after the release, major updates usually until the next minor version gets released.
GrapheneOS - as soon as update is available
iPhone/iPad - security fixes immediately, other updates few days after the release.
One time I have applied for a role in one of the big companies. Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon like big (for the record, none of the above). The process took almost two months, I had 7 or 8 interviews with various department heads - HR, hardware and software engineers, support. I had to take an IQ test disguised as personality test, one more “soft” test, did the homework assignment based on sent requirements and docs. Now, the role I was applying for was a mix of sysops, devops and sys architect. I would be working with the bare metal. I was so deep in the sys/ops world I failed on fairly simple task. During the final interview I was tasked with a live coding problem - “using the language of your choice, write a program that calculates the fibonacci sequence”. I was not prepared for that. Usually I could do this with my eyes closed after a night of heavy drinking but in this case I was so deep in systems architecture I totally blew it. Lesson I learned was to be prepared for most unusual tech questions. Ever since I always prepare for both, dev and ops parts even if it’s strictly ops role.
For me it’s “I’m offended” or “this offends me”. I get it, some topics might be triggering for some people but if you get offended because someone has a different opinion, that’s your problem, not the rest of the world problem.
