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Do so at your own peril. Google is approaching 100,000 employees. The vast majority do boring data pipelines for CRUD apps.

Top-tier company != top-tier employees.

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You're forgetting they all read all the way through cracking the code interview, the most difficult math book in history.

Coding interview books: how to use bit fields to save a marginal amount of memory while making your algorithm work only with values of n <= 64.

That's both funny and true. ValueClick hired some celebrity nerds to write a new ad platform, and I hear it supported exactly 32 advertisers. :)

Which only says that they are good at solving artificial puzzles, but nothing about whether they are good developers or generally intelligent.

> the most difficult math book in history

It is not a math book rather more of a puzzle book. On a side note - it's full of mistakes (your experience may vary though)

If you like to see difficult math then please try to apply for a self-driving car engineer's job.

whoosh

Pretty sure the prize for 'most difficult math book in history' goes to Dummit and Foote's ponderous tome, Abstract Algebra.

If you are suggesting deep learning involves difficult math then I have just had a stroke

Besides, cracking the code interview is definitely the hardest. Just check out the amazon reviews

i like your sarcasm :D.

Even with a top-tier company, recruiting top-tier employees, doesn't implie top-tier-interesting-work. I do think many of the top-tier companies do have good people, because they can pay for them, but it almost seems like it's a defensive move to keep talent away from other companies, rather than utilizing that talent to the utmost.

>Top-tier company != top-tier employees.

True, but it typically means top-tier interviewer...which would make it more difficult to discover areas where they are lacking.

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