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Comment · 9 years ago
Direct link to her talk:
https://youtu.be/j_K1YoMHpbk?t=2h38m40s
Comment · 10 years ago
Map data and quality varies depending on your location.
Comment · 10 years ago
Many readers are skeptical about the usefulness of personal AI assistants. This reminds me of what Jeff Bezos said about disruptive technologies [1], which I think resonates well among many tech company executives. You (they) need to be willing to be doubted for a very long time.
[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation/
Any time you do something big, that’s disruptive — Kindle, AWS — there will be critics. And there will be at least two kinds of critics. There will be well-meaning critics who genuinely misunderstand what you are doing or genuinely have a different opinion. And there will be the self-interested critics that have a vested interest in not liking what you are doing and they will have reason to misunderstand. And you have to be willing to ignore both types of critics. You listen to them, because you want to see, always testing, is it possible they are right?
Comment · 10 years ago
I'd argue they are consistent in that every candidate who made it past resume screening is given equal opportunity to partake in a well documented process. Whether or not the process itself is effective is a different question.
Sure, interviewers themselves are inconsistent (accents, prejudice, interview difficulty, etc), but that's not something that can be fully mitigated when every candidate gets a different set of interviewers.
Again, I'm not defending the practice and would just like to have a constructive discussion.
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm not sure I understand -- who's complaining?
To be clear, I can see why big companies prefer coding interviews (it's more "consistent" when interview feedbacks are boiled down to a score), but at the same time I'm not defending it because like many have said it's not a great measure of an engineer's capability. I'm looking at the problem from the employers' point of view.
Comment · 10 years ago
While there are many legitimate criticism of whiteboard-style coding interviews, I have yet to see a convincing alternative that scales well to the size of big companies. Google [1][2], Facebook et al. hire thousands of engineers per year, meaning they conduct at least 10-100k interviews per year. How do you design a process that is consistent, measurable and efficient at that scale?
[1] Google gets 2 million resumes a year https://www.fastcompany.com/3044606/hit-the-ground-running/g...
[2] Headcount increased from 57,148 to 66,575 between Q2 15 and Q2 16: https://abc.xyz/investor/
Comment · 10 years ago
DeepMind reduced Google data center cooling bill by 40% in an experiment. If this effect is real, it probably more than justified the $500m tag Google paid to acquire DeepMind. Google might not have come up with a killer app, but perhaps the real killer app is not in the consumer space.
Comment · 10 years ago
Are you saying Google should've bought LinkedIn? How does that contribute to Google cloud platform?
Comment · 10 years ago
Just because someone claimed Google manipulated search suggestions doesn't mean they actually did it. The video itself even acknowledged the lack of concrete proofs.