Homework Week 15

This week my team interviewed a prospect new team member, someone to take over backend responsibility left by my coworker that resigned a couple weeks ago. We read quite a few CV, learned what might pique an interviewer interest (in this case I acted as interviewer looking for candidate). I don’t realize it until now but a lot of people can’t write a good CV— a lot of them looks very bad, lacking what I (we) would say essential, including unnecessary detail (that not only waste precious space, but also made us think you lack any relevant experience). Some onviously used AI (badly) for their CV. A couple CV striked my interest (made me feel insecure), some other feel like an insult. In any case, we discuss about it with each other and select a couple candidate for interview.
I (along with my coworker) got the chance to actually be in the room to interview. This one particular candidate sweat so much, which is understandable given this might be his first ever interview. We do the usual standard question, I personally asked about their project that they most proud of— especially about their contribution to those project. I think coding as a form of art, not just a mere means to an end— therefore not having a project to be proud of, is a very big red flag. Even talking about a simple calculator app can be a very green flag if you can talk about it with pashion, and deep (and by that I do mean deep) understanding of the project. Seeing how the answer played out, unfortunately I have to vote him off. I know it would be hard to vote against someone, especially when you initially think they’re good.
My favorite restaurant went downhill after a renovation. It was such a good, cheap(ish), tasty seafood restaurant that I almost bought every Friday to bring home to my family. Now after they went through a renovation, their shellfish shrunk in size— the taste became noticeably worsen. I bought a lobster there twice, just to made sure ‘cuz the first time I ate their lobster I feel like it was rotten— well the second time was even worse that I changed my Google Maps review on them. It’s such a shame the experience left me with a very bad taste that I may never order from them again.
When I woke up the morning after I ate the shellfish, I noticed I was so tired that I want to skip work for the day. However I will atribute this to me eating heavy food, very late at night (I believe it was 11PM). I left my stomach working overtime just to process these food while I was (not) sound asleep.
Due to above reason, I started tracking my sleep more closely on my Huawei Watch GT 5.
When I sleep at Denpasar in my indekos, I noticed my deep sleep almost always on the low end, while at my home in Bangli my deep sleep is enough. At least that what my Watch GT5 says. I do feel better rested on the latter case tho. I believe this has something to do with: Bangli have lower ambience temperature (and I don’t have a refrigerator in the same room I sleep), I slept alone, so no room mate to wake me up (also no room mate that I might woken up).
I finished playing Expedition 33. I think I spent the last month obsessing over it with my friend. I started playing under the impression that this game is about grief, which is true. But the ending of Act II kinda betrayed me, some plot point there (spoiler warning btw) made death somewhat meaningless. There are basically two endings, Maelle or Verso ending. Verso is what I would call the better and bitter ending, while Maelle is a facade ending that spiral deeper to her grief. I think people who experience grief will choosen Maelle ending (at least me and my friend did) while people who doesn’t will find Maelle ending to be terrifying and Verso is the good ending. Reading how people interpret these ending on YouTube gave some insight on how their relationship with death is. Unlike most people, I decide to go with one ending— and not try the other ending on my playthrough. I decide to watch the other ending on other’s playthrough. Not sure why. Even today when writing this (July 7th) I still ponder about that ending.
On another completely unrelated topic, my membership at the gym has ended and I decided not to extend it for now. June through August will be a very hard and tiring months.