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Too busy asking people to invert binary trees and not looking for people that know how to make products that make money.
by bfrog 4y ago
Too busy asking people to invert binary trees and not looking for people that know how to make products that make money.
- xiphias2 4y agoActually if you have been really looking at Google's management, just the opposite has happened. Eric Schmidt, who is an exceptionally rare talent understanding engineering, business and politics at the same time was changed to a person who just want to show more ads (the product that makes money) with 0 engineering background.
- phendrenad2 4y agoI think you're both right. Change comes from above and reflects from below. "We hire the best" has become "we hire the best at passing a generic set of tests" because they want hiring to be a thoughtless, automated process.
- xiphias2 4y agoI have been there and seen the destruction (all meetings were about political correctness, we weren't able to discuss anything that was really important). The best are / were there before they quit to create companies, like OpenAI because it was easier than changing management. Also I bet Sam Altman would be able to reverse a binary tree (it's a trivial recursion) even if he was never at Google: it's just part of being a professional programmer.
- phendrenad2 4y agoFAANG really only asks how to mirror a binary tree in interviews?
- bfrog 3y agono, its a joke because the creator of homebrew couldn't do it and didn't get the job at google, despite making something immensely useful. There's also this gem of how google wanted one of the creators of C to take a C test https://www.theregister.com/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_our_test/ https://www.theregister.com/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_our...
- thisarticle 4y agoAnd it’s disgusting, the amount of ads on YouTube now is gross. I recently wasn’t logged in and saw how many ads I had to watch to see a minute long video. I wouldn’t use the service if it wasn’t for YouTube Premium.
- magarnicle 4y agoDo you find it is worth the money? It costs twice what most streaming services costs, and there are no bundles: I pay for Google One and Google Music, but that counts for nothing.
- thisarticle 3y ago100%, but I put a high value on experience and my time, and I don’t have a lot of other subscriptions.
- 0xDEF 4y agoTo train and productionize large-scale AI you need people who are good at algorithms and data structures.