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The asymmetric time investment required from candidates is what bothers me the most about these coding challenges. My personal experience has been that it's a lopsided process with…

And my point is that behind what you think is an altruistic contribution to open source, there is almost always a company with an economic incentive funding the engineer working on…

I'm a maintainer for an Apache project. My company pays me to maintain the project because we use it internally. If they did not pay me to maintain it, I would not be doing it. I i…

I do know someone who ended up at IBM Research from my lab. He was collaborating with them for his research before he graduated so I'm not sure if he even had to interview after fi…

Fairly recent PhD graduate here (graduated last year). My observations are that the skills required to do a PhD are orthogonal to the skills required to pass FAANG interviews and, …

I went to school at SUNY Binghamton which is right next door to Endicott, NY, founding place of IBM. Super interesting that your father was around there during the town's heyday. A…