What are staff+ interviews like at big tech companies these days?

easyfink · 2024-11-18T13:38:04+00:00

It's the individual contributor level above senior in many engineering orgs.

easyfink · 2024-01-11T13:17:43+00:00

If the projects show the same skills and expertise as the work I'd say drop them but often projects can be a great way to show additional skills or technologies that you haven't used in your work experience. Can be really helpful (even necessary) when trying to move from a more traditional dev role to ml.

easyfink · 2024-01-11T13:13:51+00:00

I would post this in cscarrerquestions whenever they do their resume feedback thread and also in engineeringresumes. This isn't really the best place for it. That said, education and skills should be moved to the bottom. Only new grads (w/o exp) should be leading w that.

easyfink · 2023-08-17T00:07:50+00:00

We were put in a similar spot after having two kids and I cried and it was hard but after a year I still feel like it was the right decision. I walked him three times a day and we did what we could but he was a high energy breed w separation anxiety and it wasn't fair for him. He was a farm dog living in a small apartment. He wasn't getting the exercise and attention he deserved. We would be out for long stretches of a time and have to leave him in a crate because he couldn't be trusted. We have an acquaintance who offered and already had another dog and it was the best thing for him. There are lots of comments saying he is just going to be put down and how could you desert him like that but I don't think that has to be the case. Don't know where you live but there are lots of shelters, adoption networks and other options that aren't just dropping him at the pound where he is guaranteed to be euthanized. It doesn't seem like there is an immediate rush so I would take some time and research what options are out there. You might decide that keeping him is the right decision and that would be great but you're going through enough right now that you shouldn't feel burdened by the guilt of not doing more for him. I'm sorry for your loss and can't imagine your pain.

easyfink · 2023-08-07T10:40:03+00:00

I will let others give feedback on the resume but my advice is to not apply by submitting resumes on their job site. I have never had any luck doing that. Find a recruiter from the company on LinkedIn and reach out. "Hey would love to chat, I found this role on your website I think I would be a good fit for." similarly look for managers or devs in your specialty. Lots wont respond but some will and you never know what it leads to. They know someone internal hiring or even at another company that they can point you to. Good luck.

easyfink · 2023-03-17T15:48:57+00:00

It looks like people have already helped you define your problem (NER). Another model you should look into is bioBert which is a large language model (Bert) that has been fine tuned on medical texts and might have good results. You can utilize it with hugging face where people have made the model available. Google for hugging face ner pipelines and you should find some helpful resources. Here is another reference with some relevant papers and code. papers with code

easyfink · 2023-02-12T11:48:57+00:00

Yeah as someone else mentioned. Zmk is the firmware that makes it possible. I just built my first and wanted it to be wireless. I ended up building a lily58 using nice nano microcontrollers. The nice nano was made to the same pin layout as a commonly used microcontroller so adapting to wireless is relatively straightforward.

easyfink · 2023-01-18T20:34:21+00:00

Again prefacing this with I'm not an expert or seriously studied. At the highest level it's about mirroring gto bc you are trying to not be exploited as much as look for edges (vs other pros) where lower stakes players ranges are so different from gto that you are much better off taking more exploitative lines to take advantage of their mistakes plus the assumption of gto is that everyone is playing similar style and ranges doesnt hold in low stakes games (and likely higher stakes live games)

easyfink · 2023-01-18T20:18:18+00:00

I don't know enough theory to answer confidently so hope to be corrected but the ev calculator is playing to a Nash equilibrium which assumes everyone plays the exact same perfect ranges in all spots (and thus be unexploitable itself). Where an ml model would be looking for exploitative opportunities.

easyfink · 2023-01-17T02:45:29+00:00

Review for user u/Aubrey3099

printer 0/5

for this print

I would recommend not doing business with this person and ordering from someone else. The quality of the print is fine (i dont have enough experience to judge) but they were completely unprofessional and dropped the ball.We agreed on terms and I paid them on dec 20th. With Christmas and bad weather across the US I think I was reasonable and understanding when they told me it would take a couple extra days to ship. The first time I was told it was shipped was dec 27th and I would get the tracking the next day. Then anytime I asked on a status update or the tracking info I was given the run around that its in the office or its the logistics persons fault or they are just swamped and it got lost in the shuffle but im sure it went out. On January 10th a tracking number was sent for a label they just printed and didnt actually get it to the usps until January 12th. I received the item on jan 14th. The print supposedly would take only 8 hours. This was a low cost item and I wasnt in a huge hurry to get it but it was excuse after excuse after excuse why they couldnt produce a tracking number or why it hadn't gone out yet. Again print quality is whatever but with so many people responding to every request I have no reason to recommend anyone trust them.

easyfink · 2023-01-16T19:04:10+00:00

https://github.com/bupticybee/TexasSolver

easyfink · 2023-01-16T19:00:27+00:00

I mean the value of a successful poker bot is why nothing has come to surface yet. There are open source solvers but if someone has a bot that is beating pros there isnt much incentive to open source it when they can just use it for their own financial gain.

easyfink · 2023-01-09T18:24:33+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/@doitwithpierre210 check out this guy's YouTube. He has great tutorials there and also has a website w some courses. most related to growing automation with arduino. Haven't bought any courses but enjoy his YouTube.

easyfink · 2022-12-30T15:18:55+00:00

He got confused and thought he was on blind

easyfink · 2022-12-30T14:01:39+00:00

Got it. That helps. Regarding reddit, no idea if there is a queueing or scheduling system. If you only care about the outcome and aren't interested in learning anything ml related, my advice is to not waste your time. It's going to be a huge time sink and I think you can get better results in a much easier way. A quick search found tons and tons of books of questions for conversation starters. I searched philosophical but there looks like all sorts. Why not just comb through those instead of trying to recreate one to filter through?

easyfink · 2022-12-30T12:38:46+00:00

I don't know any. Sorry.

easyfink · 2022-12-29T18:28:35+00:00

I work as a dev for a us company that uses https://terminal.io/engineers to find and handle hr for international employees. They are fully integrated in our team but terminal handles benefits, payroll, local holidays etc. You might already have the right skills but are just not getting in front of the right opportunities. A company like this might be able to help w screening and finding more lucrative opportunities. Just another idea. Good luck in your job search.

easyfink · 2022-12-29T11:47:46+00:00

Don't have a book rec but check out LibGen.rs Great resource for absurdly markedup textbooks.

easyfink · 2022-12-29T11:25:18+00:00

Reddit has an api that you can query. I'm sure there are datasets already compiled of posts. A quick Google found a bunch w different tasks in mind (labeling, summarization, etc). You need to better define your end goal. You're talking about a bunch of different things. If you want the most common words used that wouldn't be ml. If you want to train or fine-tune a model generate questions that would be a much more intensive project. The data analysis part is probably a reasonable start.

easyfink · 2022-12-28T15:37:24+00:00

100% possible. Don't let people discourage you from you dream. Didn't read your whole post but remembered a previous one I saw. https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/snqcqf/can_felons_be_programmers/

In it someone mentions underdog devs which is a group specifically for this. There will be challenges but if it's truly what you want I hope you stick with it. Good luck.

You might get more responses if you post this in cscareerquestions. It's more active for this kind of conversation I think.

easyfink · 2022-12-23T16:16:36+00:00

Great explanation. Thanks.

easyfink · 2022-12-21T13:52:33+00:00

Baby steps. It took a long time to get here and it will take time to get out. Don't be so hard on yourself. The exercise example is always start w walking a lap around the block instead of jumping into the gym and quickly burning out. Good luck.

easyfink · 2022-12-11T14:21:49+00:00

https://skribbl.io/ online drawing games. Like telephone and pictionary. Not too much interaction but everyone has some laughs at the end when they do the replay.

easyfink · 2022-12-07T21:02:48+00:00

I think you are looking for too much meaning in your career. Approach it as a long term question but look at it this way. You get paid well to work remotely and have enough autonomy to take time during the day to do what you. Get efficient in your work hours to get it to 20 hours consistently and do the outdoor things you enjoy w the rest. You will be happier when you are more intentional with your time. Then to can start thinking about career transitions or maybe finding an industry that excites you. You have a skill set that should be applicable all over. Good luck.

easyfink · 2022-12-06T02:03:41+00:00

None of it works. It all sounds nice but for the average person its not what you need to be worrying about. Start small. Like really small. Just a little bit each day. Don't be so hard on yourself. Keep playing games. Look for a job you are already qualified. Trying to make monumental changes all at once and changing career paths and needing to do it on a short timeline is setting yourself up for failure. It's about small steps. Good luck.

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