Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by flippy2 on Saturday July 01, 2017 @04:14PM
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Lol. Actually, they are the kind of questions us really sr people ask to ensure people are willing to actually do work.
Anyone who brushes off a question stating that it's beneath them is going to get walked right out of the building by my team.
Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by civilitty on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:12PM
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Yeah, no. Senior people don't want someone to waste time coming up with their own bug ridden solution when it's readily available elsewhere in a peer reviewed form. That kind of experience is what makes gives them the senior qualifier.
So Palantir wants senior people who still know how to write code. If you consider it below you, then don't work there. What's the problem?
Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
by driverdan on Saturday July 01, 2017 @05:10PM
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Which team is that? I'd like to know so I can avoid it.
I'm a senior engineer. Those types of interviews are to stoke the egos of green engineers who remember the solutions to their algo finals questions. If I can look it up in a book, it's not worth the time to quiz me on it.