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dms105

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    Comment #20463265

    Many people want privacy and control over the vehicle they're in, and will pay a premium for it. When you take a bus you're sharing it with random people, can't stop to take a brea…

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    Comment #11617470

    Vicarious ( http://www.vicarious.com ) | Union City, CA | Full-time | Onsite Positions: AI Researcher, Developmental Roboticist, Software Engineer We are building a unified algorit…

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    Comment #11123049

    You misinterpreted what I was trying to say. I was simply trying to highlight that theres a difference between dealing with people and dealing with a perfectly logical machine, to …

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    Comment #11121491

    I like the law/programming analogy, but theres probably more of a margin for error when your job is to convince some people, depending on if you're prosecuting or defending. If you…

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    Comment #11120857

    You could argue that building software has a higher potential for complexity than work in any of those fields. So how do you measure someones ability to be good at that within a re…

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    Comment #11120678

    The real weaknesses of technical interviews are: 1) They usually just measure the amount of effort a person has put into studying interview questions. Whether or not the ability to…

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    Comment #11092310

    Your company is appropriately named, as hiring for sales is certainly more of an art than hiring engineers. It's difficult to hire for sales and other customer facing positions wit…

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    Comment #11092230

    In my experience the lack of communication is caused by a combination of workload and lack of experience. A lot of the larger tech companies have an assembly line approach to recru…

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    Comment #11092180

    Those have usually been ones that did very poorly, so they probably already have some idea of what they were missing. Some candidates have other offers to fall back on and just don…

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    Comment #11091175

    Ive always offered to give detailed feedback to my candidates that didn't pass a technical screen. I'd say about 80% of them were eager to hear it, and were grateful to get informa…