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dataslacker t1_j7m1dho wrote

Reply to comment by bitemenow999 in [D] Should I focus on python or C++? by NoSleep19

I’ve been working in ML for 8 years and I’ve never seen or heard of a scientist being hired without at least one coding interview. Never seen someone just “write down an algorithm” and hand it off to an engineer. I would really like to hear where you saw this because it’s no where near my experience at big tech companies.

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bitemenow999 t1_j7m7ctl wrote

my boss during my internship at FB (now meta) came from academia and was a professor at one of the well-known uni, literally didn't write a single line of code during my 3 months there, all I/we (most of the team) got were scribbled notes written during our weekly meetings on what to implement...

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dataslacker t1_j7mf8yg wrote

Interesting! I guess if you’re a well know academic you can get away with that, but the rest of us need to know how to code

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