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by eshvk 13y ago
So if you actually have those pre-reqs upto scratch: Linear Algebra (up to the level of Strang/Sheldon Axler), Statistics (any undergrad book), Algorithms/Data Structures. You can ramp up on your own time and read key research pap
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by eshvk 13y ago
It is not clear to me how your citizenship or lack of it has to do with your internship prospects. From an immigration point of view, assuming you are legally in the country, there is literally nothing that any company has to do extra to hi
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by eshvk 13y ago
If you are from a top 2 public university, your best bet is to go through campus interviews. Wait for your spring career fair or sign up through your online career portal and apply.
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by eshvk 13y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough: OP referenced people at Beats with a data background getting fired. This was the first I had ever heard about it, which is why I asked for references. I remember they were trying to ramp up a team from scr
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by eshvk 13y ago
Really? any references to this?
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by eshvk 13y ago
The surprising thing is that you probably already work with people like that. Hiring much like dating is an incredibly subjective process. I am insanely curious about hiring decisions and always like to once I get to know the folks who inte
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by eshvk 13y ago
Also, I don't know how good you guys are as lawyers but really you should emphasize the hell out of that more: connect to avvo reviews, background information. Right now, the site looks like a DIY guide to the green card. While that ma
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by eshvk 13y ago
> india set of a series of undersea tests late in the century. underground. [1] [2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_Buddha
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by eshvk 13y ago
One thing that fascinates me is Linkedin Groups/Forums. People post the most outrageously sexist opinions or have kindergarten level fights with other people there; all connected to their real names. It is not as bad as Youtube comment
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by eshvk 13y ago
A few years back I moved from an EE background to Computer Science. I found it hard initially to relate building cool shit with learning abstract theory. However, fast forward a few years now, I think I kind of understand where it helps and
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by eshvk 13y ago
You are missing a few use cases. 1. The employment based conversion to a green card process. 2. The current setup seems to be designed from the perspective of someone who is being sponsored by a U.S. citizen (marriage or family based). E.g.
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by eshvk 13y ago
It is possible to be a programmer at any age. However, getting hired is a different thing. I don't know what part of the world you are in, however age related discrimination happens, especially in Silicon Valley. I haven't heard r
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by eshvk 13y ago
Well listing IQ requirements is not allowed. So presumably restricting this falls under the same category?
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by eshvk 13y ago
> What you do, however, is remove the reason job seekers go to college in the first place. There are not that many jobs that actually require a degree, other than as a superficial filtering mechanism, so you can take them out of that sys
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by eshvk 13y ago
How is this going to solve anything? All this is going to do is bring in a flood of applicants to the job that has no listing of a college degree as a requirement. Then HR is going to reject a bunch of applications. At the end you are just
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by eshvk 13y ago
Exactly. One thing that always gets me annoyed about immigration debates is about how there exist so many jobs that Americans are "unwilling to do". Why? Why is there a stigma against certain jobs? If it is a question of a living
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by eshvk 13y ago
> The educational system we have now is largely a scam, it promises that if you spend tens of thousands (or more) dollars on a 4 year degree, you'd have a good job waiting on the other side, and its largely BS. So I didn't grow
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by eshvk 13y ago
And that makes my (snarky) question any less valid. Why not talk about the cultural norms of white programmers from the midwest? Why not talk about the cultural norms of girl programmers then? The problem with shit like this is it can act a
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by eshvk 13y ago
I am fascinated by this thread. Can we also get a "What do you think of white developers?", "What do you think of women developers?". /s tl;dr: It is just a population of homo sapiens. You will have good and bad peo
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by eshvk 13y ago
This is incredibly true. I worked in a robotics research lab in 2008. I remember hours and hours of solving both dynamics equations and spending time messing with rotors trying to get a silly quadrator to move a few feet above the ground. I
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by eshvk 13y ago
I experimented with a few options here in SF for groceries. I tried Instacart; it works out to be slightly more expensive than be taking an uber back and forth to the closest TJs and buying stuff. The best of the bunch now appears to Walmar
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by eshvk 13y ago
To add on to what kohanz said, I think it is important to find out concretely what "more autonomy, using more exciting tech, solving bigger problems, working with movers & shakers, and generally more of a challenge." mean exac
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by eshvk 13y ago
See this is where it gets into the realm of being subjective. I used to think that getting shit done was the only prime directive that matter. Until, one fine day I found myself given legacy code written in PHP by some dude who hadn't
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by eshvk 13y ago
On the flip side, I have very rarely found an interviewer who has actually read through my github code. It is more like they are scanning through an imaginary checklist of 'has github account, has repositories in it' etc. The othe
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by eshvk 13y ago
I don't mean to knock on the pair programming model. It works amazingly for some people, there are cults around it disguised as consultancies and I even had fun with a few pair programming exercises. But... does your company actually p
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by eshvk 13y ago
> I think it is more than just being underpaid. Doctors, dentists and lawyers do not have to go through such stupid recruiting processes. I've known people to get hired in 15-20 minutes. The assumption is that your education and pre
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by eshvk 13y ago
> If the same story had happened to a graphic designer then most would agree,as usual in that case, that you have to set limits and not work for free "just to see what you can do". On the flip side, literally every interesting
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by eshvk 13y ago
So I have gathered that these are some of the populations of developers: 1. There is a class of people who will not do algorithmic interviews, who think they are puzzles and not exactly what a programmer does on a day to day basis. 2. There
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Isn't this similar in USA? I mean, looking for a job and doing interviews don't need work permits, thus can be done with a tourist visa. I think you should be on a B1 visa. The tourist visa is specifically meant for tourism.

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