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Gebru is not a Woz-level wizard like LeCun but someone who worked at Apple as an engineer and did a PhD with Fei-Fei Li cannot be dismissed as “not technical.”
by spoonjim 5y ago
Gebru is not a Woz-level wizard like LeCun but someone who worked at Apple as an engineer and did a PhD with Fei-Fei Li cannot be dismissed as “not technical.”
- perl4ever 5y agoI had a phone screen shortly before the pandemic where I emphasized that I liked understanding and solving problems for people and didn't care what specific technology I used. I got feedback from the recruiter that the company passed on me because I was not technical enough. They literally had asked me zero technical questions. Not too long after, the company was in the news for a massive data breach.
- spoonjim 5y agoWell, unless you were interviewing for a CTO type job, they were probably looking for an indication of what technologies you’re most proficient in. If you’re equally proficient in 20 programming languages, that proficiency level is, with high probability, pretty low.
- perl4ever 5y ago>If you’re equally proficient in 20 programming languages, that proficiency level is, with high probability, pretty low. I'm way too old to put down 20 programming languages on my resume. Overcoming the compulsion to do that is how I got my first real programming job.