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Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university

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Post by 55555 »

ganoushoreilly wrote: post #205
monocasa wrote: post #169

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KH-11 is Lockheed. Stuxnet was probably mainly Mossad. The Utah data center was a pretty run of the mill data center, but apparently plagued by technical issues. And yeah, they have a huge budget which allows them to buy a lot of toys for a bit above normal price. Their mathematicians are top notch though from what I've heard.

I can assure you that there are programs with insane skill requirements, many of which have fed the executives and senior Security and IT staff at FAANG. They're not likely being overt about their previous jobs, choosing to instead make them sound less sexy so to speak, but they're 100% there. I would also note that you're over estimating 2nd party contributions to all the above. You're right on the money for math th…

How does the fed pay these programmers more than the normal federal compensation schedule? Is the compensation uncapped if they work through a contractor? If they dont, why do these programmers choose to work there?

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Post by maxmalysh »

Avicebron wrote: post #189
agotterer wrote: post #184

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I came to the comments say the same thing. I’ve hired and worked with many engineers and the overwhelming majority did not attend MIT or Stanford. Some of the best didn’t attend college at all!

In your experience how do you filter candidates without a degree? Portfolio? Do you review their code?

I filter based on experience. Previous jobs, roles, projects. Degree is a weak predictor and I consider it mostly for candidates with less than 3 years of experience.

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Post by novok »

vmception wrote: post #97
curiousllama wrote: post #75

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Agreed - University of Maryland is a huge tech feeder to public sector orgs, believe it or not.

All the DC area computer science programs feed right into the NSA and defense. Which is funny because Silicon Valley companies won't think candidates from those schools are that interesting, while simultaneously thinking that the intelligence and defense has better programmers. People are people.

I think the more accurate perception is they have relatively unlimited budget and interest in attacking computer security, along with special powers like doing basically secret illegal shit that make them difficult to beat in security matters.

Not that any specific set of their employees are super geniuses.

While SV still has to run a profitable business while trying to care about security.

Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university

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Post by Avicebron »

maxmalysh wrote: post #212
Avicebron wrote: post #189

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In your experience how do you filter candidates without a degree? Portfolio? Do you review their code?

I filter based on experience. Previous jobs, roles, projects. Degree is a weak predictor and I consider it mostly for candidates with less than 3 years of experience.

I guess my question transitions over to: If a candidate has less than 3 years experience and no degree, where does that fall on your radar? Genuinely curious as it falls into the "need experience to get experience" job meme many people find initially.

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Post by surajrmal »

calbear81 wrote: post #41
vsskanth wrote: post #3

I've always wondered why mega billionaires from this era such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg etc. haven't built universities like Stanford, Duke, Cornell etc. - all started by monopolists from the previous era. I guess Eric Schmidt would be the first one

What about Draper University in San Mateo?

It's not accredited, and for good reason.

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Jtsummers wrote: post #206
wslack wrote: post #198

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This sort of thing is exactly what USDS works against. However, it won't be solved until federal agencies hire on people with the skillset to effectively manage technology.

Those people have been hired on. They’re blocked by their managers. It’s incredibly frustrating.

That's true - there are lots of folks on the ground who know what's needed but can't get top cover to enact it.

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Post by WalterBright »

Zhenya wrote: post #84
Upvoter33 wrote: post #45

"Palo Alto-based Stanford University ... and MIT have historically been the primary talent pools for the tech industry" This is far from true. If you look at the total workforce in tech, the majority is by far from much larger, public schools, like Berkeley, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, Texas, Wisconsin, etc., etc. MIT and Stanford have had amazing great people, but they are far from the "primary" source of talent…

In order of ranking and total enrollment (sourced from us news) 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3,130 2 Stanford University 3,444 ' 3 University of California--Berkeley 2,337 4 California Institute of Technology 536 5 Carnegie Mellon University 4,112 6 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor 3,247 7 Purdue University--West Lafayette 3,428 8 Georgia Institute of Technology 4,252 9 University of California--San Diego…

Correction: swap #1 with #4

Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university

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Post by WalterBright »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #128
vsskanth wrote: post #3

I've always wondered why mega billionaires from this era such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg etc. haven't built universities like Stanford, Duke, Cornell etc. - all started by monopolists from the previous era. I guess Eric Schmidt would be the first one

Yes, we need more medical schools for example. We have way more students interested in medicine than available spots in school/residencies.

Medical school seats are controlled by the AMA, in order to keep doctor pay up.
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