I'm sure you know, but to clarify, drywall is not structural. Load is borne by lumber in most cases, though some homes in America are built with structural masonry; South Florida builds a lot of homes with concrete masonry units, for example. The drywall is just there as a pleasant skin to hide the structural underpinnings. There's nothing stopping someone from using drywall in the interior even in structural masonry buildings, and this happens pretty often, in fact.
There's nothing wrong with wooden houses! They're a cost-effective method of building, and with proper care, such houses will last over a hundred years. Masonry buildings, of course, also need care to avoid falling apart, though probably less so than wooden buildings.
I don't know where it is that you're from, but I'd wager that large parts of the US sees harsher climate conditions. Between hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and wildfires, American houses have to deal with a lot. Properly-constructed wooden houses handle what they need to.
Sure, you could say that all else equal, a masonry structure is more durable than a wooden one. But as they say, anyone can build a bridge that stands, but only an engineer can build a bridge that barely stands. Cost is always an object in the real world.
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> As far as I can tell, the “behavioral interview” is essentially the same as a Scientology intake session except, you know, for capitalism instead. You have to answer the same 8 questions at every interview around “so what would you do if you had a conflict at work?” where the interviewer treats you like a 5 year old learning about people for the first time instead of acknowledging you as a professional with 0.5, 1, 2, 3 decades of experience.
Man, I don't know how many interviews the author has been on the other side of the table for. There are a _lot_ of people with 2 decades of experience who have no idea how to communicate constructively with other humans over the internet. It is not a solved problem.
Yea, seriously. Much like how people complain about fizzbuzz until they see how many people can't do that, the amount of candidates where basic "so tell me about how you approached a major design decision not going the way you wanted" question had them essentially admitting to being vengeful and petty is weirdly high. Or people when asked how they dealt with a junior engineer who put in a messy PR essentially recount how they traumatized a new kid.
Yes, I had a candidate litterally telling me "design decisions always goes my way because I can always convince others that I'm right and they're wrong".
Where? I saw the word "noiseless" tossed out there, but could just be journalist translating some marketing copy about some aspect of the system, not the entirety of its effect on noise pollution.
