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by dms105 7y ago
Many people want privacy and control over the vehicle they're in, and will pay a premium for it. When you take a bus you're sharing it with random people, can't stop to take a break whenever you want, and can't go direct
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by dms105 10y ago
Vicarious ( http://www.vicarious.com ) | Union City, CA | Full-time | Onsite Positions: AI Researcher, Developmental Roboticist, Software Engineer We are building a unified algorithmic architecture to achieve human-level intellige
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by dms105 11y ago
You misinterpreted what I was trying to say. I was simply trying to highlight that theres a difference between dealing with people and dealing with a perfectly logical machine, to support the point that interviewing programmers is harder th
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by dms105 11y ago
I like the law/programming analogy, but theres probably more of a margin for error when your job is to convince some people, depending on if you're prosecuting or defending. If you make even a small mistake when programming, it
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by dms105 11y ago
You could argue that building software has a higher potential for complexity than work in any of those fields. So how do you measure someones ability to be good at that within a reasonable time frame using limited resources (interviewer tim
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by dms105 11y ago
The real weaknesses of technical interviews are: 1) They usually just measure the amount of effort a person has put into studying interview questions. Whether or not the ability to do this translates to being a better engineer is debatable.
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by dms105 11y ago
Your company is appropriately named, as hiring for sales is certainly more of an art than hiring engineers. It's difficult to hire for sales and other customer facing positions without taking into account personality fit and likability
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by dms105 11y ago
In my experience the lack of communication is caused by a combination of workload and lack of experience. A lot of the larger tech companies have an assembly line approach to recruiting, with teams of coordinators, sourcers, and recruiters
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by dms105 11y ago
Those have usually been ones that did very poorly, so they probably already have some idea of what they were missing. Some candidates have other offers to fall back on and just don't care that much, and some just don't want to dis
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by dms105 11y ago
Ive always offered to give detailed feedback to my candidates that didn't pass a technical screen. I'd say about 80% of them were eager to hear it, and were grateful to get information that could help them get better at coding, or