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It sounds like they are bad at hiring. If you are interviewing dozens of PhDs and only found one worthy of hiring, maybe your process is flawed. If you are hel
by dsl 9y ago
It sounds like they are bad at hiring. If you are interviewing dozens of PhDs and only found one worthy of hiring, maybe your process is flawed.
If you are hell bent on the algorithms and data structures interview model, you just might not have PhD level problems to solve.
- tnecniv 9y agoAlternatively, they might have looked at their publications / spoke with them and determined they have the research chops and want to figure out if they will destroy the code base or not in the process. It's unclear what problem they gave the PhD was about. It could have been a hard optimization problem or some coding test.
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- cwilkes 9y ago+eleventy on that comment. It sounds like they want a clone of Dr O that has industry experience and can bang out code quickly that solves an artificial problem given in an interview. What I got from this article is that the company shouldn't be looking at PhDs but rather at coders. At least that's what their interview seems to be geared towards.