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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by trident5000 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:42PM (#33390056)
This seems ridiculous to me. Self driving cars are cutting edge tech. Social media algos are not for the most part, certainly not Twitters. Top talent goes to wherever cutting edge developments are. If I wanted to participate in developing the future I would choose Tesla over Twitter any day.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by CloudRecondite on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:46PM (#33390087)
Top tier talent generally goes where they get compensated the best
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by WWLink on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:04AM (#33392591)
This exactly!

That said, if you can't solve a random leetcode hard problem on a whiteboard in 40 mins, and you don't mind working 60+ hours a week, and you are still not a doofus, Tesla will probably hire you! :)

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by marvindanig on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:49PM (#33390110)
What self-driving car are you talking about? I’d bet Twitter has had more success in computational neuroscience with their structured tweets than Tesla has had with broken roads.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by trident5000 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:56PM (#33390166)
I bet they dont.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by govg on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:06AM (#33391278)
Twitter does some cutting edge ai research, they are unique (just like meta and google and some other firms) in that the challenges they face at the scale they do are unique, and need unique solutions. If you think "social media algos" are a) not cutting edge or b)all Twitter does technically, then you are incredibly misinformed. It's not just Twitter, Google and Meta are also doing incredible research in AI and are among the biggest contributers at any platform you choose (conference papers, libraries, datasets, architectures)
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