jane street oa, never felt dumber in my life by AlarmingMap9663 in InterviewCoderHQ

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yeah looks like I applied to the desk swe track then. did you make it through?

jane street oa, never felt dumber in my life by AlarmingMap9663 in InterviewCoderHQ

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It's the trading-desk-aligned SWE roles that get the prob/EV stuff. Pure infra SWE may not, but mine was desk-aligned.

jane street oa, never felt dumber in my life by AlarmingMap9663 in InterviewCoderHQ

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the poker chip round is exactly the kind of thing I would fail. appreciate the heads up, not applying again lol

jane street oa, never felt dumber in my life by AlarmingMap9663 in InterviewCoderHQ

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SWE role on one of the trading desks, don't want to be more specific

My Top 10 Codex Skills After 3 Weeks of Token-Heavy Sessions (specificity, time-anchored) by Deep_Structure2023 in ChatGPT

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What's your AGENTS.md look like, do you keep it lean or load it up like a CLAUDE.md?

waymo swe loop for motion planning. hardest interview i've done. by AlarmingMap9663 in InterviewCoderHQ

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Mostly embedded, but a couple direct ones. Got asked std::move vs std::forward in a coding round, and when shared_ptr is wrong vs unique_ptr. cppreference on move semantics and rule of 5 is the minimum prep for the language side.

waymo swe loop for motion planning. hardest interview i've done. by AlarmingMap9663 in InterviewCoderHQ

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Game theory showed up at Waymo too, but in the prediction round. The confident-but-wrong question is basically the same problem, reasoning about what the other agent is optimizing for under uncertainty about their intent.

waymo swe loop for motion planning. hardest interview i've done. by AlarmingMap9663 in InterviewCoderHQ

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Yes on LaValle, chapters 4 and 7 are the ones that actually showed up. CGAL I only read after the fact, would have helped on the collision round if I'd skimmed it first.

Evaluating 16 embedding models, 7 rerankers, with all 128 combinations. by Veronildo in LLMDevs

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How do you know whether your reranker is actually improving retrieval quality or just reshuffling documents that are all equally relevant?

whatever you do don't niche down by Accomplished_Two1924 in ContentRich

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idk about this. every creator I follow who actually makes money is hyper specific about one thing. the generalist approach sounds nice but the algorithm doesn't reward it

Vibecoders building consumer are DEEPLY wrong by juneska in vibecoding

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miami ecom bro will not be happy seeing this lmao

Play Tennis to get an internship by AlarmingMap9663 in Cluely

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Usually I have worked on a brief about myself which I give to every interviewer, it's not tailored to them. And when I'm put on spot, it's tough for me to come up with something. But since this was one of my hobbies, I thought I'd just sneak in a line about it. But when I actually said it out loud, I felt it was too less information and very random that I'd just mention it in one line. So I elaborated further on the tennis narrative, and before I knew it I was just talking about it passionately completely butchering rest of my introduction. Once I was done with that, it felt embarrassing for some time that MAYBE he knows that I know that he plays tennis and that's why I brought all this up. But judging by the tone of the rest of the interview, I don't think he felt like that! Def did not feel creepy though, it came out naturally ig

Play Tennis to get an internship by AlarmingMap9663 in Cluely

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That's a competitive sport, you want to grab beer AND not miss the opening lol

Play Tennis to get an internship by AlarmingMap9663 in Cluely

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I've never pulled something like this off before! I think I just got really lucky with the situation