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Having worked in both, there is a huge number of really smart people who turn down offers to work in quant shops. And people really underestimate how much tech will pay top researc…

People really over hype and overrate what kind of work happens at Jane Street or similarly exclusive HFTs. They have their mix of interesting projects and mundane work like any oth…

Interesting. Alberta is really only known for reinforcement learning as one of the leading academics relocated to Edmonton, but they're not known for much else. You won't hear of A…

I am against the principle of any individual within a company being able to extend offers at will without any interviews or input from others. A "proven track record" is often too …

> Here in Canada a good grade in academic-stream high school math was simply mandatory for admission to any BSc program Perhaps that's why I've always found excellent engineers fro…

As someone who has formal degrees in Math, I believe this is mostly because the programming Math students do is extremely tedious and simply not enjoyable. In school we were making…

It sounds like they're just recording the text you're typing and not the entire interview (video recording, conversation) but I could be wrong. If that is the case though, I doubt …

I never understood why people advocate for job offers sans interviews for someone who has interesting projects. IMO any company allowing such practices opens itself up to corruptio…

You don't see any hint of irony in that statement from someone who leaves artwork in public spaces without asking the general public for permission first? The same artist who destr…

Surely you must mean the targeted advertisements and data collection necessary for that. I don't see anything inherently wrong with an advertisement in and of itself, and it certai…

Not that I'm defending the theft or IP or technology, but it is interesting how some things we consider stealing, others homage and some that we simply ignore. No one would complai…

This made me reread the article[0] again (if we were talking about the same one) and I don't see any mention of interview ratings and job performance. [0] - https://www.nytimes.com…

This story seems like a bad example of a false negative. There were claims by Google insiders that Max was given a particularly easy interview as a formality. I am by no means a br…

AFAIK (as someone who does not work at Google), "brain teaser" questions have not been asked at Google for almost a decade. Every time I see complaints like this I can't help but t…

> They weren't willing to give the city a chance and instead always wanted to change it to be more bland or more like somewhere else. I've found this statement to be the complete o…

I assume you mean the Jabra* Elite, which I own (both the 65t and 75t). They're fine but I am not a fan of the shape and design and they are less comfortable than my Airpods Pro (c…

How is this a flimsy reason? Trying to paint this decision as an example of oppression is either ignorant or dishonest. Her actions would have gotten almost anyone fired from any c…

It's a bit ridiculous to me that the current climate necessitates that people of particular backgrounds are more or less convenient to fire.

This is not at all what Timnit was fired for. There is a enforced conformity at most large companies in terms of "approved" politics, but Timnit was not fired for going against the…