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anon44

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    Comment #20864772

    This patent is not part of google's open pledge: https://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/patents/ Of course, their "open" excuse is all nonsense to begin with.

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    Comment #20864725

    Isn't there a way to make the patent open for everyone instead of owned by google? I don't buy the excuses.

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    Comment #20849095

    In that vast majority of cases, interviewers are expecting the right solution. When I see a question I know the answer to, I pretend to eventually come to the solution to impress f…

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    Comment #20821931

    Not surprising in the slightest. I work in machine learning and no longer trust most papers I read. A lot of papers have fabricated or dishonest results, and the people who publish…

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    Comment #20749756

    That is malice.

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    Comment #20743082

    "Do they not want promotions or pay increases at their current jobs before leaving? Usually you have to do good quality work to get promoted." In my experience, algs interviews are…

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    Comment #20733322

    I don't think it takes a long time for people to realize it's all bullshit. Playing the game and being purposely deceitful is the type of behavior that gets people promoted, so tha…

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    Comment #20733157

    I once had an interviewer who said my O(N) solution was actually O(2N), so my solution is wrong. There algs interview evaluations are very, very subjective and inconsistent. If pla…

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    Comment #20632171

    Doesn't have to be a standard IQ test, I would be fine with the test being about algorithms and systems design type questions. Just please remove the biased human component from in…

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    Comment #20631657

    "ethic group (I assume you used race for this?)" Yeah I mean biological race in the darwinian sense. Some groups have been separated with little gene flow for 100-200K years.

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    Comment #20626585

    But some races were likely separated for longer than that, so these mutations are likely uneven across populations. Very disturbing if true.

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    Comment #20620688

    Well I appreciate these interview loops because at least they are still far more objective than big company promo processes when whoever lies the most and forces others to do their…

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    Comment #20577103

    the vast majority of ML/data scientist positions are actually similar to the hypothetical ML engineer position you described.

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