npelly

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   by npelly 9y ago

   Zoox (Autonomous Mobility) | Foster City, CA | Generalist SWE | Infra Software Engineers | Android Engineers | Front-end Engineers | Full-time | ONSITE | VISA Zoox is building a fleet of autonomous vehicles. Zoox is hiring across a range of
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   by npelly 9y ago

   A lot of comments suggesting this is cynical compensation arbitrage by the DeepMap founders. I don't buy it. I expect a startup was the only option to execute on the idea with a decent level of autonomy. Google/Alphabet already ha
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   by npelly 9y ago

   Would love to read the 80 page white paper mentioned in the article.
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   by npelly 9y ago

   It's not that hard. Hiring managers / hiring committees for technical positions at the big-5 are made up of peer engineers and managers (not recruiters or executives). So they hire the best person for the job because they're
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   by npelly 9y ago

   I've never seen suggestions that Facebook has a lower hiring bar for females, and i'd be really surprised if this was the case. The playbook is to aggressively attract female (and other diversity) candidates into the top of the hi
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   by npelly 10y ago

   Agree. Driver abstraction layers are not a cure-all. First, OEMs want to customize the O/S above the driver level. Second, a strict DAL with a canonical O/S on top slows hardware innovation. All devices end up functionally the sam
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   by npelly 10y ago

   They would be far too easy to game.