How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by ur-whale on Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:35AM (#22776618)

This kind of story is pretty standard at Google:

1. Hire the best of the best, typically PhD level.

2. Assign them to random crap project that have precious little to do with their specialty and strengths.

3. Assume that if they were smart enough to earn a PhD on topic X, they'll learn quickly how to do work on Y, even if X and Y are completely unrelated.

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Re:How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin by DeathArrow on Saturday April 04, 2020 @03:34AM (#22776821)

I've seen some CS and math PhD grads being employed for software engineering roles where all that mattered was knowing framework X by heart, memorizing GoF patterns, TDD, DDD, SOLID, clean code and all what uncle Bob was preaching in the '90s and early 2000.

I think both CS and software engineering have their own importance but they are not the same. It's better to hire the right person for the job.

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