vacheron

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by vacheron 2y ago
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 researchers/overestimate how much the average quant makes.
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by vacheron 2y ago
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 other company.
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 Alberta much in academia or in Silicon Valley, and
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 vague and arbitrary a bar and this just lends way
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by vacheron 6y ago
> 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 from Canada's flagship schools (U of British
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 graphs in Matlab/Octave/Mathematica/R which
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 they'd need additional consent since it'
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 corruption and nepotism. I've worked for startups and even mid-s
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 destroys his own art, which he left in public, when someone
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 certainly isn't morally questionable. Companies need con
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 complain if spies from your own country stole from a rival nat
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by vacheron 6y ago
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/2013/06/20/business&#x2
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 brilliant programmer and also rusty with algorithms, but given
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by vacheron 6y ago
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 think the posters have a chip on their shoulde