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by NTDF9 9y ago
Americans are particularly suckers to money. It's cultural. For a lot of folks here, life is about that rat race. Said companies capitalize on that. It's the same in India and China as well. Too much competition for fewer and fewe
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by NTDF9 9y ago
You have a pretty naive view of what a Stanford grad has available to him/her outside of grunt tech jobs. This Amazon job sucks by most measures. The next job that this candidate looks for will suck even more because this candidate wil
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by NTDF9 9y ago
There is a wide disparity between "embedded" type software dev interviews and "crud" type software interviews. Amazon, Google, FB are CRUD type. Their interviews are exclusively Algos and data struct memorization and sla
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by NTDF9 9y ago
There are better things for a Stanford grad to do. If this is all they want, they'd rather join a bootcamp!
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by NTDF9 9y ago
And this is how another smart person dedicated their life to solving puzzles, just so that they could get a job on an obscure feature in a giant company.
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by NTDF9 10y ago
You are right. In other words, they want people who'll work for them without complaining. Submissive people. People who won't think out of the box.
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Here's what happened to these companies: - They started asking algos and datastructs in the 00s because not too many people had the resources to study it. This served as a proxy for intelligence and was vaguely related as compared to o
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by NTDF9 10y ago
I have always held the view that for intro to programming classes, C was the best language. It really gave insight into what does it mean to "run". For algos and datastructs, I hear python is in vogue these days.
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by NTDF9 10y ago
They already are. Amazon, Linkedin, Microsoft, Uber etc have offices there, paying top talent to the tune of $60-$80/year. For comparison, this is more than median tech salaries in London and cost of living in India is peanuts.
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Great explanation! Thanks! >> So to answer your questions, in a flash crash scenario as an ETF owner you'll experience more lag in both cases So the lag is due to inability to quickly buy/sell the percentages that were alloc
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> But both still don't solve the underlying issue I have with this tech. Even the "useful" ideas for it boil down to satisfying people's vanity. It solves no problem, it provides no useful benefit to humanity. The
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Here's a question for someone more savvy than me. What happens if the vast majority of stock investments end up in vanguard funds? In an economic crises, will everyone try to sell the same set of funds and will crash the funds themselv
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Even if they do tolerate it, the biggest impediment to adoption of bikes in the US, is its vast suburbia. This itself makes it so unbearable. Cycling just isn't fun when you're not able to see other cyclists, humans, stores and ac
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> The big optimization would be avoiding full table scans or full table joins. That would be at the query level. An insight that can only come from experience and to someone who is actually interested in this. I want to work with peo
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> It's hard to imagine an innovative problem solver being unable to tackle Google's interview questions. You gave the example of optimizing an SQL query. That's a data structures problem itself. Dude, is your definitio
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Haha! Good luck. Sounds like an awesome opportunity if they deal with VMs and registers!
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> Google style interviews don't screen for the best engineers, but they screen strongly for subservience. The fact that a candidate has to go out of their way to prepare for these interviews indicates that the candidate is likel
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> I realise they have 0 problems with CS fundamentals while being at the same time top experts in respective fields. I suspect your definition of CS fundamentals is only Algos and Datastruct problems. Said experts are very good at wh
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by NTDF9 10y ago
What do you work on? Can I interview with you?
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by NTDF9 10y ago
It's all a variation of the 500 questions listed. Nobody memorizes code line by line. But there are enough hires at Google and FB who memorized algorithms and solutions and got in. Do you want to work with people who memorize solutions
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> Well if you theory holds how did Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Guido van Rossum, Dan Bornstein and on and on ended up at Google? You realize they got hired because of their fame and expertise? They didn't have to go through intense
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Who do you want to work with? A person who can regurgitate CS trivia or a person who has interest and track record in solving interesting problems?
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> 1) You've not defined intelligence in an agreeable way, such that all parties are discussing the same thing (you seem to have interpreted his point about Sundar Pachai as successful due to being CEO of Google, but that may not
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Step 1: Read the fucking resume Step 2: Find somebody with relevant expertise to interview that candidate. Don't send the generic engineer who doesn't know anything beyond using hashmaps for all Java programs.
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by NTDF9 10y ago
What do you think about Marissa Mayer? For every outlier winner person you point out, the industry is littered with losers. Perhaps stop correlating wrong things together?
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by NTDF9 10y ago
>> If this materially impacts the bottom lines of companies that are practicing this approach eventually companies that are not using this process will prevail. It would, if companies realize that they can save millions by improving t
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Here's my gripe with this interview process. It encourages engineers to spend months and years into learning and remembering optimal solutions to textbook problems. A REAL engineer would spend the same time doing something productive..
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Betsy DeVos undoes Obama student loan protections(bloomberg.com)
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by NTDF9 10y ago
The articles on FACE of Amazon look insane. What a read!! https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home Is this all really true?
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by NTDF9 10y ago
Does forced eating of healthy food and exercise mean healthier? My original comment was more about lifestyle than anything else. Healthier lifestyle does not require a higher GDP.

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