UPenn vs Rice for CS

dimkin
Sun, 18 Apr 2021 18:01:28 +0000

brain teasers are a terrible way to evaluate intelligence because of pressure

a person may know the technical details of something, but be terrible at understanding the big picture or be unable to architect properly

Interviews are a HARD way to evaluate someone … one guy I hired ended up snoring at his desk from week 1 … I always say 1 reference is worth 100 interviews …

I wish there was a much better way to attach to someone’s resume 2 indicators: intelligence and motivation … that’s all I ask

Also even tech firms have their “front office” and “back office” positions, and highly differentiate the hires… it’s not enough to say I work for bigN … or Goldman Sachs … you could be doing tip-of-the-edge ML or search algorithm work, or could be working on secondary GUIs …