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That's a great question. Because it lets you as a candidate screen out places run by morons.
by conjectures 6y ago
That's a great question. Because it lets you as a candidate screen out places run by morons.
- marcinzm 6y agoI wish. I saw it asked by otherwise great teams run by very competent people. It's done in place of a leetcode algo question and those are even more divorced from day to day work. System design questions make more sense but I've noticed that you score better on them if you study the area beforehand but convincingly lie that you barely know it (and are just that clever and fast on your feet). Interviews are a shit show in general.
- bitxbit 6y agoYears back someone asked me an interview question to explain sd and confidence intervals. I just gave the wrong answers and left. Especially in nascent fields such as ML and DS, it’s very important to work with people who actually know what they are doing. Otherwise you will have wasted years of your precious twenties doing absolutely nothing productive.
- mlvljr 6y agoSo, we're you saving them from working with you that way? Could you elaborate, if you have a minute?