I TAed a compulsory "Introduction to Engineering" class at USyd. The class itself was dead easy, the equivalent of the fizzbuzz interview question.
The single assessment was "review an engineering article" where I caught 7 students (all international) plagiarizing. Not just borrowing a sentence or two, but lifting entire paragraphs and gluing them together with broken English. In one case a student had gone as far as submitting Stephen Hawking's "Space and Time Warps", verbatim.
I raised all of these to the professor. Despite all students signing the "I know what plagiarism is, I won't do it and understand there I will be kicked out if I do" - the professor knocked back all of my claims and all students passed.
It was a huge disappointment to realize that this is how the "education system" works.
Tictail | Growth Engineer | NYC, New York | Full-time | ONSITE
We here at Tictail are building the world's most used and loved e-commerce platform. Tictail was founded five years ago in Stockholm, Sweden, where the platform was built from the ground up to support independent brands across the world in running their business. Since then Tictail has built a marketplace to support our brands, opened an office in NYC and grown to support hundreds of thousands of brands and millions of products.
Our frontend is built on top of React, Express, and Webpack where we work hard to stay on the bleeding edge. Our backend is largely written as Flask services in Python where we use technology like PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, nginx, HAProxy, and Chef. Everything runs on top of AWS. Above all, we value the right tool for the job.
Who we are looking for:
* You are comfortable moving across, up, down, in and out of the stack - but we don't expect you to be a specialist in everything
* You take pride in your work but care most of all about getting your code in front of users
* You care about building something real – something that helps people all over the world grow their own business from their passion
We are also hiring for non-engineering roles in NYC and you can see more positions http://tic.tl/2gwWsap:
Tictail | Growth Analyst | NYC, New York | Full-time | ONSITE
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For engineers, our interview process usually involves a phone screening, a take home task followed by an onsite interview where we will talk about the task and do a little pair programming.
I don't know how well it holds up for large groups, but for ~5 or so clients it has worked nicely for me.