U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians

Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by Zigurd on Monday September 26, 2016 @10:00PM (#12587021)

Both sides of this issue are wrong. On the one hand, If I knew, based on online articles about the interview process, that there is a set of 100 questions out of which I might get asked 20, I'd prep on those 100 questions. It seems like the interviewees are underpreped for interviewing. That's sloppy. Maybe that's a reason not to hire them, but it probably isn't the best way to select hires.

On the other hand this process makes about as much sense as requiring that I know how to shift a non-synchronized manual transmission in order to pass a driving test. Nobody is implementing most of these algorithms from scratch, and if they did it would be a bad practice without having a good reason to do it.

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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by daveFNbuck on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:24PM (#12587240)

You'd have a good point in your second paragraph if we were talking about implementing a Fibonacci Heap or an AVL tree. But the comment you're responding to is about people failing FizzBuzz.

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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by Zigurd on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @04:14PM (#12600941)

Good point, FizzBuzz should take a couple minutes. AND it's the sort of thing a prepared interviewee should nail. I'd hope the rest of the interview would focus more on real-world considerations.

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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by ryuker16 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:52AM (#12587505)

Im guessing they assumed the CS degree was a magic job getter and were too cocky to study

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