rdelval

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   by rdelval 7y ago

   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 the candidate putting in hours of unpaid work and the
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   by rdelval 7y ago

   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 the project.
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   by rdelval 7y ago

   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 imagine I'm in a similar spot as many other open so
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   by rdelval 8y ago

   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 finishing. According to Glassdoor, Facebook research cand
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   by rdelval 8y ago

   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, more importantly, to being a good software engineer. I don&#
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   by rdelval 8y ago

   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. After the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company and IBM packed u