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Speak for yourself. I would definitely give a shit if someone who applied to my theoretical company worked at a top-tier company.

matte_black 9y ago
Sounds great but not a good idea in practice. A company should always be designed in a way that it works smoothly even with people of modest backgrounds. Especially as it grows larger. Otherwise your "top tier" employees become liabilities, and it becomes unsustainable to rely purely on everyone being a top player. Basically you want a company that can still operate effectively even if everyone was a dumbass.
pathseeker 9y ago
Do so at your own peril. Google is approaching 100,000 employees. The vast majority do boring data pipelines for CRUD apps. Top-tier company != top-tier employees.
- aje403 9y ago
  You're forgetting they all read all the way through cracking the code interview, the most difficult math book in history.
  - briansteffens 9y ago
    Coding interview books: how to use bit fields to save a marginal amount of memory while making your algorithm work only with values of n <= 64.
    - captain_perl 9y ago
      That's both funny and true. ValueClick hired some celebrity nerds to write a new ad platform, and I hear it supported exactly 32 advertisers. :)
  - mandeepj 9y ago
    > the most difficult math book in history It is not a math book rather more of a puzzle book. On a side note - it's full of mistakes (your experience may vary though) If you like to see difficult math then please try to apply for a self-driving car engineer's job.
    - andbberger 9y ago
      whoosh Pretty sure the prize for 'most difficult math book in history' goes to Dummit and Foote's ponderous tome, Abstract Algebra.
    - aje403 9y ago
      If you are suggesting deep learning involves difficult math then I have just had a stroke Besides, cracking the code interview is definitely the hardest. Just check out the amazon reviews
  - Fins 9y ago
    Which only says that they are good at solving artificial puzzles, but nothing about whether they are good developers or generally intelligent.
  - stuffedBelly 9y ago
    i like your sarcasm :D.
- southphillyman 9y ago
  >Top-tier company != top-tier employees. True, but it typically means top-tier interviewer...which would make it more difficult to discover areas where they are lacking.
- cbanek 9y ago
  Even with a top-tier company, recruiting top-tier employees, doesn't implie top-tier-interesting-work. I do think many of the top-tier companies do have good people, because they can pay for them, but it almost seems like it's a defensive move to keep talent away from other companies, rather than utilizing that talent to the utmost.
dawnerd 9y ago
I'd kinda see it as a semi-red flag. Why would they leave a top-tier company to work for me? Why did they quit? Etc.
ur_all_autistic 9y ago
That's because you don't know anything.

matte_black 9y ago

Sounds great but not a good idea in practice. A company should always be designed in a way that it works smoothly even with people of modest backgrounds. Especially as it grows larger. Otherwise your "top tier" employees become liabilities, and it becomes unsustainable to rely purely on everyone being a top player. Basically you want a company that can still operate effectively even if everyone was a dumbass.

pathseeker 9y ago

Do so at your own peril. Google is approaching 100,000 employees. The vast majority do boring data pipelines for CRUD apps. Top-tier company != top-tier employees.

aje403 9y ago
You're forgetting they all read all the way through cracking the code interview, the most difficult math book in history.
- briansteffens 9y ago
  Coding interview books: how to use bit fields to save a marginal amount of memory while making your algorithm work only with values of n <= 64.
  - captain_perl 9y ago
    That's both funny and true. ValueClick hired some celebrity nerds to write a new ad platform, and I hear it supported exactly 32 advertisers. :)
- mandeepj 9y ago
  > the most difficult math book in history It is not a math book rather more of a puzzle book. On a side note - it's full of mistakes (your experience may vary though) If you like to see difficult math then please try to apply for a self-driving car engineer's job.
  - andbberger 9y ago
    whoosh Pretty sure the prize for 'most difficult math book in history' goes to Dummit and Foote's ponderous tome, Abstract Algebra.
  - aje403 9y ago
    If you are suggesting deep learning involves difficult math then I have just had a stroke Besides, cracking the code interview is definitely the hardest. Just check out the amazon reviews
- Fins 9y ago
  Which only says that they are good at solving artificial puzzles, but nothing about whether they are good developers or generally intelligent.
- stuffedBelly 9y ago
  i like your sarcasm :D.
southphillyman 9y ago
>Top-tier company != top-tier employees. True, but it typically means top-tier interviewer...which would make it more difficult to discover areas where they are lacking.
cbanek 9y ago
Even with a top-tier company, recruiting top-tier employees, doesn't implie top-tier-interesting-work. I do think many of the top-tier companies do have good people, because they can pay for them, but it almost seems like it's a defensive move to keep talent away from other companies, rather than utilizing that talent to the utmost.

dawnerd 9y ago

I'd kinda see it as a semi-red flag. Why would they leave a top-tier company to work for me? Why did they quit? Etc.

ur_all_autistic 9y ago

That's because you don't know anything.