Communism is an ideology about murdering capitalists. That is baked into its DNA. Maybe some western European philosophy professors came along in the 1950s and sanitized the idea for their undergrads, but the idea is and always has been about violently overthrowing capital owners. You discount Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and vanguard theory, despite this covering virtually 99% of all communists who have ever lived.

Nazis want to impose a pseudoscientific system of racial hygiene and they massacred anyone who got in their way. Communists want worker ownership of the means of production and the massacred anyone who got in their way. I see no difference.

Cuba is often shown as an example of successful vanguard communism. However it still hasn’t fully divested the communist party of its totalitarian power, and a lot of migrants move to Florida. So, it doesn’t really meet the criteria in my eyes.

Cuba is an authoritarian regime which should be overthrown and replaced with a liberal democracy. It is absolutely not a success story

Socialism is the theory that workers should own the means of production. Communism is the theory that the workers should massacre the owners in order to get them. While socialism describes an ideal state of society, communism is explicitly a program for mass murder to achieve a much more vague definition of an ideal society. That is why, after establishing a communist state, communist governments continue to seek out and purge or murder heretics against the Marxist-Leninist state ideology (or “Mao Zedong thought”). Communism is not a theory, as dialectical materialism likes to pretend it is. At its best, communism is a political cult that attract white middle class college freshman. At its worst, communism is a state religion with all the inquisitions and mass murder and auto-genocide that comes with that.

Communism is unintelligible without perceived enemies of the working class. This was not a perversion by Lenin or Stalin; this is baked into the DNA of the writings of Marx, who dedicated a few thousand pages to misdescribing the economics of capitalism and his fantasies for mass murder, but comparatively few pages describing what the end result of that revolution looks like.

I can intellectually respect a Socialist who is convinced that the world would be better if all companies were worker coops, or if all business were regulated by state councils of proletarian soviets. I do not respect anybody claiming to be a communist in precisely the same way that I don’t respect anyone claiming to be a Nazi; they are equally evil and murderous ideologies that are responsible for tens if not over a hundred million deaths throughout the 20th century. Anybody who endorses this ideology in the 21st century is as low as a fucking neo-Nazi

Eloquent in your brevity

Maybe not scifi, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want to hire people who read.

I feel that if we only hire purely based on technical ability, we are creating dysfunctional and unempathetic workplaces. If we all see our jobs inherently transactionally, it breeds discontent. Employees are less likely to stay more than a couple years and institutional knowledge becomes weak with a constantly rotating roster of hot-swappable engineers. Obviously, this requires the employer to treat the employees well; if someone is a good performer then they should get more than a cost of living adjustment every other year. We are creating economic engines and not cultures worth spending 8 hours a day in

the theory of communism doesn’t require human rights violations and restrictions of freedoms

Communism is a political ideology predicated on murdering a group of political enemies in the name of a pseudoscientific economic theory which is given the same reverence that Catholics do to church dogma. Communism is, and always has been, a cult.

Whats wrong with SAO

No

It’s not 100% about getting the best developer, it’s about team culture

I think it’s better to get an intuitive/human understanding of an applicant rather than making them take an SAT of Javascript questions. Above all, I value flexibility and the ability to learn new things. A lot of the people I don’t want to work with kind of just learned react at a bootcamp and that’s all they know how to do

Do you have a strong preference for Marvel over D.C. or did you you lie lol

Here’s a twist to the question: what if the company created artistic products? For example, a game development studio? Would the fiction you read/watch/etc be more relevant to the job? Even for software engineers

I think your answer would be perfect, but it begs the question: should employers try to hire people who read long form text recreationally (i.e: books)? Does it correlate to better written communication skills? I think I owe my ability to communicate asynchronously at work to the years I spent on web forums online

I doubt it’s explicitly illegal, but who knows what you can be accused of

If you asked me my favorite sci fi and I said it was the Black Science comics, or Atomic Robo, is that a yes or a no?

It’s a yes, I’m not particular about the format/medium. Same with my other interview questions, the answers don’t matter so much as the fact that you CAN answer the question

how are these yuppies sneaking through your screening at all? It’s not evident in the interview?

It’s not exactly a criteria for the interview. Plus I’m not the only one interviewing. yuppies attract yuppies

That’s not exactly what I want to select for though. I guess leaving it open ended lets them convince me of the culture fit rather than just trying to check a box. Maybe they don’t give a shit about science fiction, but they’re really into science or art. That’s cool, too

I think we already live in a monoculture in the tech industry. I think having some kind of cultural similarity is important for organizational cohesion. I think empathy helps

Haha I’m afraid every time I interview someone. I know that I personally hate being asked whiteboard algorithm questions, and I don’t think they’re very useful either. When I interview people I ask them two main questions:

1. What is your hottest take on coding? It can be controversial or not, it just has to be a strongly held opinion. For example, if you despise Windows, tell me why. If you are a zealot for Vim/Emacs, rant at me. If you think that dynamically typed languages are the worst thing ever, prove it.

I don’t actually care about what their opinion is (though I think it’s good to hire people with a lot of intellectual diversity), I just want to see if they can extemporaneously rant about coding for 10-15mins

2. What is a technology (an API, a cloud service, a programming language, a new kind of algorithm, etc.) that you are excited about and that you want to be able to use at work some day

Again, the actual tech doesn’t matter too much to me, but this indicates that they read up on the latest goings-ons of the industry they’re in. I also think that it’s a good character trait to be someone who desperately searches for problems to apply a novel solution to. I don’t think it’s always a good idea to ACTUALLY create a solution looking for a problem, but I think it’s a good intellectual trait to have

Yeah but at the same time I feel like it’s kind of privileged to be able to work in tech because you love coding. I mean everybody should work in jobs they love but I’ve met a huge number of people who were making slave wages in other fields and moved to coding to make more money. Why should I punish that? Because I find their water cooler conversations to be boring? What if they’re the first person in their family to graduate college and they’re just trying to feed their family and are actually really good at coding, but their real passion in life is Football? I want to work in a workplace with people I would want to actually hang out with, but it seems petty to penalize people for not liking the same things as me and not having the advantage of a great salary to be able to turn their real passion into a career

Yes