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by vecter 4y ago
That's a great perspective, thanks for sharing that. What would you like to see as the best interview questions then? I'll probably adapt my future interviews based on your ideas (not that I ask any real algorithm questions anyway
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by vecter 4y ago
I see, thanks for clarifying that. Makes sense. Relatedly, I still don't understand why people are upset at these companies' hiring practices.
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by vecter 4y ago
That is not the traditional definition of a social graph, which is connecting people who know each other in real life.
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by vecter 4y ago
I might not be connecting the dots, but I don't see how this is related to the GP's gripe that these interview questions aren't good tools for hiring engineers.
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by vecter 4y ago
That sounds good in theory but most leaders are so removed from engineering that it would take them a week ramp up to produce even the most basic tiny change/feature to push to production. A VP should not be spending one week of his or
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by vecter 4y ago
> Or maybe, just maybe, interviewing based on esoteric computer science problems isn’t the best way to identify high performing builders.. but a great way of identifying people who can hack a process to secure maximal reward. I see thi
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by vecter 4y ago
> Literally anyone. Literally any other market participant with interest in longterm ownership. You don't know what you're talking about. If there were no market makers, your orders probably wouldn't execute within any r
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by vecter 4y ago
> For long videos, you need social graphs to match videos to users who like them. YouTube is all about long videos and there is basically zero social graph on there.
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by vecter 4y ago
It's hard to continue this conversation in good faith without pointing out that you literally have no idea what you're talking about. You don't know what HFT firms or what market making actually is, yet you don't mind th
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by vecter 4y ago
> I’m assuming that teams wouldn’t be sharing strategies with other teams. Is that accurate? Correct. At least at this firm I was at (different firms have different org setups and therefore incentive structures), each team was a silo.
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by vecter 4y ago
> If they haven't proven legitimacy and societal benefit, assuming fraud is a pretty safe bet. This is absurd reasoning. It's like saying Apple has such large profit margins on their iPhones that they must be either cooking t
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by vecter 4y ago
HFT does nothing illegal. If you’re going to make strong claims like that, it would be good to provide some evidence.
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by vecter 4y ago
> I don't understand higher-order financial engineering except as presented in pop culture references such as wolf of wallstreet The Wolf of Wall Street wasn't doing any sort of financial engineering in the real sense of the te
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by vecter 4y ago
I don't know why you think that. Not everyone who makes in to these places comes out wildly rich. I know a smart guy from college who spent years as a team lead at a top HFT firm and wound up making less than most junior-level software
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by vecter 4y ago
They'd be silly to not interview someone who applied with strong quantitative background. Once you make the interview, it's all up to you. No amount of referrals will make up for a poor interview.
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by vecter 4y ago
I worked in High Frequency Trading over a decade ago (not Jane Street) so I have some insight into this. In general, markets are always evolving. I've seen a team of four traders that make $500k/day go down to $0/day over the
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by vecter 4y ago
> I found it very confusing that I had to attempt to recv() from a socket and fail in order to even tell that the connection was no longer active. I expected that I would call e.g. isconnected() on the sockets after accept() tells me so
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by vecter 4y ago
I think you meant to link to 1-(999999/1e6)^(1178 choose 2) [0] [0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1-%28999999%2F1000000%2...
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by vecter 4y ago
> Sure, he won't mind paying that I believe. I strongly beg to differ. The purported damage may be in the low tens of billions. It doesn't mean that Twitter will get that much, but they'll certainly sue for that much. >
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by vecter 4y ago
This ad hominem has nothing to do with Elon's legal standing with regards to whether or not he can back out of the deal without paying a large breakup fee. Yes Elon has done great work for humankind, but that doesn't absolve him o
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by vecter 4y ago
That is often to save people you know and care about, not complete strangers.
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by vecter 4y ago
It seems to me that the article is mostly talking about outreach to someone that you're trying to get in touch with, who has little or no official obligation to get back to you (barring the example w/the busy friend). If that&#x27
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by vecter 4y ago
This is entirely unrealistic and totally detached from reality. Someone like Travis Kalanick simply cannot reply to everyone who emails him. He literally wouldn't have enough time to do that if he just replied to emails 24/7/
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by vecter 4y ago
This is entirely unrealistic and totally detached from reality. Someone like Travis Kalanick simply cannot reply to everyone who emails him. He literally wouldn't have enough time to do that if he just replied to emails 24/7&#x2
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by vecter 4y ago
I've had bad gas most of my life. I just kind of assumed it was me and there was nothing I could do about it. I started on 10 Billion CFUs of Lactobacillus Acidophilus [0] a few weeks ago and my gas went away in literally one day. I ta
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by vecter 4y ago
That's not really fair either. There are plenty of brilliant people in academia who don't care for big paychecks from corporations.
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by vecter 4y ago
My friend who is a professor at a university aiming for tenure put it succinctly: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by vecter 4y ago
Good points. If Elon took over, would he actually be able to fire the board though? I thought that the point of the board is to keep the CEO accountable, but maybe there are other tricks he can play.
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by vecter 4y ago
He studied Physics at Princeton and had a technical background from what I understand.
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by vecter 4y ago
At this point with the market in a drawdown, you don't think that the board wants to close the deal? It would seem to me that it's their fiduciary duty to try to close a deal at well above the current market price, and probably an

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