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Re:Google: My interview experience by kamaal on Monday April 24, 2017 @04:48AM (#14182798)
>>They optimize to reduce false positives. They're completely fine with false negatives.

Getting too many false negatives is a very sure way of getting a lot of false positives.

>>They don't have any shortage of talented engineers willing to interview there.

You might be wrong there. Apart from huge money opportunities, there are little incentives for any body to waste their best years in large company political middle levels.

Re:Google: My interview experience by wdroz on Monday April 24, 2017 @08:01AM (#14183523)
>>Getting too many false negatives is a very sure way of getting a lot of false positives.

Why ? IMO if you reduce the False Acceptance Rate, you will up the False Reject Rate. Good chart at https://www.tractica.com/biometrics/in-biometrics-which-erro...

Re:Google: My interview experience by rco8786 on Monday April 24, 2017 @02:37PM (#14186802)
> Apart from huge money opportunities

It's...amusing that you brush that off like it's nothing.

Not to mention things like job security(people have families ya know?) and that having Google on your resume is still a powerful boost for future opportunities. That might not be true someday, but for now it is.