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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

For the past couple of years Ive used a question that I once was asked in an interview, in which you have the candidate produce an algorithm for drawing a circle on a pixel grid. As they optimize their solution, they eventually wind up deriving Bresenhams circle algorithm. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. I know of at least five former employees that went on to become startup founders.