Why is this getting flagged? Are large tech companies now somehow shielded from criticism?
This experience actually sounds both common and unavoidable.
FAANGs have x10 candidates for every position. So the interviews are indeed both difficult and arbitrary. And after a rejection they can always call you after 6 months and restart the whole shtick. So why not. Sigh.
As someone who interviewed 100s of software engineers - its just the system doing its best, and there is usually no bad-intent on either side.
Off topic: are $1M/$2M seed rounds realistic during YC demo day?
Even with some traction/users/conversion/revenue, and a grand long-term vision, a suggested 15%-25% dilution [1] gives $4-10M valuation. Outside SV, this is already Series A valuation. Any thoughts ?
Is there any research that spiking/dopamine type learning is good at "animal level" behaviour, but abstract and complex thinking is enabled by different mechanisms ?
Can u mention how much human Dev time is involved?
We have a stupid-basic single machine Deep reinforcement Self play setup. It takes about 24 hrs to run a full experiment. The NN is the bottle neck. Using Tensor flow. Nothing fancy.
How much dev time for a good enginner (backend, kernel, multi core experience) to get this down to say 1hr ?
Obviously a very general question. Thanks for any input.
> Humans get a hand crafted curriculum inputs, evolved over 1000s of iterations, in a near-optimal language encoding.