igor sotsugov

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

QA Test Engineer

Come grow your career at Nexmo with our QA Engineering team. QA at Nexmo is at the center of everything we do. If you want to create product that changes the world and is committed 100% to customer success — this is the place. Great product. Great people. Great team. Great opportunity. We are looking for highly motivated technical talent that will step up and have an impact.

You will:

Work towards improving test automation framework and maintain scalable data sets
Develop and contribute to long-term technical solutions and strategies of the engineering department
Advocate technical solutions and execute ideas without waiting for, or requiring intervention from others
Produce automation scripts in Python (pytest), Java unit testing (jUnit), load and performance testing (e.g. jMeter)
Work throughout the entire development cycle together with other technical and non-technical teams participating in product delivery
Deliver best quality products and features in shortest period

There is a street with five houses all in a row. Each house has a person with a different name and each house is painted a different colour. Each homeowner drinks a different type of beverage, owns a different type of pet and reads a different type of newspaper.

Jez lives in the red house.
Liz keeps corgis as pets.
Vlad drinks vodka.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house's owner drinks coffee.
The owner who reads the Morning Star keeps a golden eagle.

Studying for a Tech Interview Sucks, so Here's a Cheat Sheet to Help

This list is meant to be a both a quick guide and reference for further research into these topics. It's basically a summary of that comp sci course you never took or forgot about, so there's no way it can cover everything in depth. It also will be available as a gist on Github for everyone to edit and add to.

Data Structure Basics

Array

Definition:

Stores data elements based on an sequential, most commonly 0 based, index.

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	# Win10 Initial Setup Script
	# Author: Disassembler <[email protected]>
	# Version: 1.7, 2016-08-15

	# dasm's script: https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script/

	# THIS IS A PERSONALIZED VERSION
	# This script leaves more MS defaults on, including MS security features.
	# Tweaked based on personal preferences for @alirobe 2016-11-16 - v1.7.1

	<code_scheme name="Nexmo">
	<option name="RIGHT_MARGIN" value="100" />
	<option name="WRAP_WHEN_TYPING_REACHES_RIGHT_MARGIN" value="true" />
	<XML>
	<option name="XML_LEGACY_SETTINGS_IMPORTED" value="true" />
	</XML>
	<codeStyleSettings language="Python">
	<option name="WRAP_LONG_LINES" value="true" />
	<option name="WRAP_ON_TYPING" value="1" />
	</codeStyleSettings>

	from celery.schedules import crontab
	from flask.ext.celery import Celery

	CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE = {
	# executes every night at 4:15
	'every-night': {
	'task': 'user.checkaccounts',
	'schedule': crontab(hour=4, minute=20)
	}
	}

	[29 Mar 2010: An expanded and annotated version of this is available on my website at http://www.thebraidytester.com/downloads/YouAreNotDoneYet.pdf.]

	Accessibility

	Check the following MSAA property settings for every control on every dialog, command bar, and other UI feature: NAME, ROLE, STATE, VALUE, KBSHORTCUT, and DEFACTION
	Change values in edit boxes and verify those values are reflected in the MSAA property set
	Run in high contrast mode
	Run in large font mode
	Run with Sound Sentry
	Run with sticky keys and other mouse key settings

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	import redis
	import random
	import pylibmc
	import sys

	r = redis.Redis(host = 'localhost', port = 6389)
	mc = pylibmc.Client(['localhost:11222'])