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> but I've heard (mind you, a few years ago) of people squeezing in Google Deepmind just by knowing the topic they're supposed to work on What position? No cod
by jstx1 3y ago
> but I've heard (mind you, a few years ago) of people squeezing in Google Deepmind just by knowing the topic they're supposed to work on
What position? No coding test for a research scientist is more plausible than no coding test for a software engineer.
- gAI 3y agoIs the test administered remotely? I wonder how many employment tests have been taken by ChatGPT at this point.
- PaulHoule 3y agoToday a front end designer needs to read 50 documents to understand CSS, not least be able to make a small change to a web site without it all falling down like a pile of Jenga blocks. That makes coding a fast suffix tree building algorithm out of your head look easy. In the case of React you could ask questions like "why does this simple web page call the render() method 714 times?" and then the interviewee says "that's wrong, it calls render() 715 times" and they will have to bring in one of the React core developers to adjudicate.
- jokethrowaway 3y agoIt was for a ML engineer position! I remember being mad jelly at the time, he had 1-2 years of experience coding in Java, he had studied some ML at uni and he didn't even have to do LC to land a job at Google