sadamznintern

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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I was asked this question at a company (unicorn, but lower bar than Google, got the offer) and I only described #1. Thanks for calling me stupid though!
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Are you at FB? One of them did tell me this after his round (said we got further than he thought we would), the other one explicitly said my solution was optimal and what he was looking for. The 2 questions per interview "rule" is
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Same, except about 1 year ago instead.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Top 1% of intelligence
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
How do I force myself to find them fun?
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
That’s because the FB process explicitly optimizes for speed. I recently finished a loop where I solved 2 problems optimally in 2 interviews and 1 in the last one and I was rejected. The speed required makes me skeptical many people can sol
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
How do I force myself to find doing those problems to be fun? To me they just seem painful because they really expose how stupid I am even if I know he basics.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Yes they absolutely can.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I am Asian. Ironically my parents aren’t like me at all about this. They’re pretty relaxed and they would have been fine with me going anywhere as long as I was “happy”.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
“If Ivan weren’t my son perhaps I’d be dating him” Loved the examples, can’t wait to try it!
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Wonderful article! I absolutely adore graphs just for this reason - you can solve a massive number of problems with a few tools. And of-fucking-course OP is at Google Brain.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I mean, his endgame still got him to being a quant. Like I'd be able to do that.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Its pretty clear from context what it means
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
22 The bubble is about to burst and I don't have enough to weather it.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Yes.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I pay $2.9k a month in rent and utilities. I'm also going to take a wild guess and say you're working on a graduate stipend or aren't in the US.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>Sounds like you're in a bubble. To be honest, I don't think I did. I just want to be a part of the other bubble really, really, really bad.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I mentioned it because I'm pretty sure the parent I was responding to works there...
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>Money is great, but it's not sufficient for happiness. I'm pretty skeptical of this idea. Money yields freedom and experiences (that I currently don't have).
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Well, for one thing they can do it at 22, with no constraints on the function they're optimizing. Their hard work was done in 4 years of undergrad and 4 years of high school. I thought I did OK - but apparently I didn't, and now I
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Yeah, no doubt! Mere mortals like me can't even imagine what that would be like however.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I spend too much of my day looking at the LinkedIns and Instagrams of my friends and peers who are at "top companies". 1) They all have legitimate accomplishments. They have USAMO/USACO medals, chess trophies, ISEF distinctio
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Yup, I remember that bit too - I found myself agreeing with the Duke group as well. I grew up pretty upper middle class but I am absolutely poor compared to the circle Holmes' family was in, and I grew up pretty smart but definitely s
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>Are there really that many things you can't do in the world with that salary? I can't save $1.5 million as fast as I want to with this salary (I know people who can live it up and still save $100k a year at Google and trading
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I dunno, is drug abuse rampant at FB/Google/top startups? I have doubts. People there seem pretty happy (and sidenote, very photogenic) on their instagrams.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Oh no doubt! But I'd rather be a well paid and connected idiot than a poorly paid smart person.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Yup! One of my friends is at Jump right now, and I had to stop talking to him because he makes $10k a month while I make $8k in my full time job (never even got an interview there...) I really wish I was born with the raw intellect to do co
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Yeah, even at the Amazon tier level nobody is looking for jobs by looking at language expertise...they're looking at algorithms and system design ability. They probably dont' care about what languages you already know.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Nope, its only a salary reduction. In addition, they get a "husky card" with a daily stipend for on-campus dining hall/food court meals/gym entrance etc - a few friends of mine took it and they said the value of the husk
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I can't be too specific given how few of these there are (lol), but think on the level of Jane Street, Jump Trading, 2 Sigma and 5 Rings.

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