Fascinating story!

Your x-ray vision manager: what (interview) questions or criteria did she use?

Not op, but

>she would always sit in with another interviewer and never ask any questions of the candidates. She would just observe.

Maybe the secret to being a good evaluator is to not do a distracting different task at the same time.

Chris Voss talks about this in his book "Never Split the Difference".

He advocates for teams of people handling a negotiation with the most experienced negotiator just observing.

The reason: it's incredibly difficult to be process, crafting and delivering responses in real time. If your primary goal is to observe the other side, that should be your sole focus. It's also incredibly valuable to have that observation hence why you should negotiate in teams (or at least pairs).

I learned this from Star Trek TOS where Khan congratulates Kirk on letting Spock question him while Kirk observes.

You are correct.

Condo rental pool is a term I've never come across before.

What rental pool service did you use?

A developer creates a standard resort hotel and then sells individual units out as condos.

You can (and most people do) use the onsite property management company. All of the individual owners make their units available as inventory to the property management company when they are not staying there. The property manager should have an algorithm to ensure units are occupied equitably.

> Apollo's founder isn't even trying to sustain his business.

Good call out. It's like the business equivalent of:

You changed the rules of the game because you didn't like how I played. So I'm not even going to bother playing with the new rules. I retire.

Can you blame him?

The rules of the game changed so severely that playing the game isn't just disagreeable, it's impossible.

What would you have done instead?

> What would you have done instead?

Charge $5 monthly and refund the annual fee for those who want it (which is already being done it seems, regardless of Apollo's future).

Apollo has options. They're just choosing to shutdown. That's the founder's prerogative, of course, but it is totally unnecessary.

Look at the support in this thread alone - Apollo has tons of people willing to throw money at them.

Exactly

I wouldn't take it personally

You know the real circumstances

True hurtful one-stars is a rival who's mad at your book release

And got their buddies to spam the system w/ garbage reviews

The customer that gives a $.25 tip on bad service

Hurtful garbage yes

But still a gift

I saw a poll once re: 5-star rating systems:

Roughly 50% tolerate or like them The other 50% completely hate them

Rating system for stuff like books needs another dimension.

One for how well book's topic or genre gelled with you as a viewer.

Another for execution of the concept.

Some books are well written but not for me. Some are interesting enough but flawed. One dimensional scale would land both squarely in the middle

Will Karat be around after the AI revolution?

I wouldn't be surprised if an OpenAI + Zoom solution makes Karat obsolete.

I, for one, won't shed any tears. I've wasted too much time conducting interviews. I'd like to have more time to focus on work.

I use Zoho for email along with https://workspace.google.com/essentials/

Works beautifully

I do miss Gmail, but it's easy to workaround it

I am so confused (and unable to go deep on it at the moment) why I can't simply use this with $CUSTOMDOMAIN instead of my paid normal workspace.

Actually I see it now. It doesn't include email. It's just their office competition.

I talked to a friend about what's she's seeing inside Google right now and the amount of corporate and cultural dysfunction is shocking. Politics, games, entitlement, and decreased productivity.

Is there a company that's more dysfunctional?

Plenty. Look outside of tech and you'll see that's the norm in many places.

...yes? You just described every large organization/company ever.

And academia is even worse!

Any large organization where people have the ability to create little fiefdoms will result in this eventually.

Have you worked in government/defense? I only know two people who have jumped to google and they did not think google was as bad.

Any large aerospace company. Especially those that have been bought and merged with others as the sector has consolidated over the years.

Having watched it from the inside of one through 4 aquire/merge cycles over 10 years I speak from experience.

Boeing?

Sure. Raytheon Space also going through its Game of Thrones at the moment.

Agreed. The level of naysaying on Bing + GPT (along with ChatGPT) is absurd.