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Yipes, I don't want to discourage anyone from applying. I think I was a special case of desperate/underqualified. That's why the process took me so long - I had to catch up big-tim…

Thanks! That means a lot to me.

> Did you have to prepare for that? Yes, I found it valuable/important to study basic data structures and algorithms before my interviews. Specifically, I read Wikipedia articles a…

Thanks for the comment! Hm, I'm not sure what school you went to, but an ECE degree at Duke is not like an EECS degree at MIT. It leans much more towards the electrical engineering…

I'm another dev at KA. Just wanted to chime in that we're also hiring general (not just mobile) devs, data scientist-engineers, general product designers, and interns in all of the…

I'm a female developer w/ a EE degree, but mostly self-taught wrt coding. My parents were nontechnical, but I was lucky enough to have my own computer and a good internet connectio…

Thanks for sharing. After reading the Mercury News article, I googled around and pulled up the following piece by Businessweek. It's longer but more detailed, and, IMO, better writ…

Congrats, Jamie and team! As a Khan Academy developer I can attest that this was a substantial technical undertaking. "While it's possible that within, say, 10 years, internet acce…

FWIW, a friend of mine graduated in this cohort. She has a physics degree from Duke, and back when we were freshmen together, was considering majoring in CS, among other technical …

Cool simulations from the crowd on the Khan Academy CS platform.

Is it really so counterintuitive? I think PG is making it out to be more complicated than it really is. Solve a big, annoying problem for lots of people. Dropbox was obviously a gr…

Hi zhemao, thanks for the comment! I'm a Khan Academy developer. I just wanted to add that we do hire educators. Among them are Beth and Steven who are our in-resident art history …

I wanted to share some things I learned while making my first Khan Academy exercise - this is primarily intended for beginners to web development. Please let me know if you find th…

Awesome! But.. why comic sans in the signup?

I just bought a domain from Name.com yesterday (in an effort to escape from GoDaddy) and I'm surprised at how nasty their interface is. These big registrars really try to make thei…

Thanks!

We're looking for a 4th housemate for a nice 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom house in Mountain View. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR - ONE person - Female (preferred) - Non-smoker - No pets - Super cl…