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Do you think that the people who invented PageRank and planet scale social graphs and virtualized server hardware and advertising auctions and personalizatio mo
by srtjstjsj 10y ago
Do you think that the people who invented PageRank and planet scale social graphs and virtualized server hardware and advertising auctions and personalizatio models were not capable of solving computer science homework problems?
- im_down_w_otp 10y ago1. I'm nearly 100% certain they're not hiring for the position of "Co-founder". 2. I'm nearly 100% certain they couldn't derive, in real-time and in-scope of the interview, the solution to a PhD thesis problem they had never heard of before, nor previously been given the answer to simply to recall it later. 3. I'm nearly 100% sure that if they can do #2, then they should be interviewing for #1 someplace else, not trying to become employee # X-thousandth-and-one in a mature enterprise, or that they'd never be asked these questions to begin with because they'd be interviewing for a job that was directly related to and based on their own pre-existing published academic works. I'll start to believe that these companies are pioneering best-practices around hiring when their frontline recruiters are psychiatrists and psychologists who specialize in proficiency assessment and personality profiling.
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