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Which elite schools? I went to MIT and didn’t have to do any of this.
by peter_l_downs 7y ago
Which elite schools? I went to MIT and didn’t have to do any of this.
- natalyarostova 7y agoIt's a Caltech and Stanford thing. MIT isn't really elite.
- jjoonathan 7y agoSure.
- fenomas 7y agoOh not in Utica, it's more of an Albany expression.
- natalyarostova 7y agoI see.
- chollida1 7y agohttps://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/materials.php https://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/materials.php
- marquis-chacha 7y agoThat's a student taught class. Not really policy-defining.
- Dangeranger 7y agoThe course you linked to doesn’t cover any of the algorithms mentioned in the grandparent. It does however cover about three dozen common interview questions. The course is also from 2009.
- neilv 7y agoJust to add context: MIT Interim Activities Period (IAP) is a "winter break" few weeks in which anyone can lead classes/sessions on any topic: http://web.mit.edu/iap/about/index.html http://web.mit.edu/iap/about/index.html MIT CSAIL is the research lab joining of the legendary MIT AI Lab and MIT Lab for Computer Science. People who work hard and win the lottery to do research at CSAIL (or other prestigious lab) shouldn't afterwards be looking for entry-level coding jobs for which a whiteboard code monkey dance interview/hazing would be appropriate, IMHO. (For different reasons, people who are in programmer career tracks, with verifiable industry track records and/or open source involvement, also shouldn't be put through the entry-level hazing. Claims that the ritual gives certain companies metrics or somesuch would carry more credibility, had those companies not been caught brazenly colluding, at the CEO level, to systematically suppress wages and mobility of their own employees, with presumed spreading market effects throughout industry.)
- MRD85 7y agoThat seems really easy for MIT. I'm towards the end of my 2nd year at a regional university in Australia and nothing there seemed that bad.