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Yoav Goldberg, AI2-Israel Research Director, says AI interviews overemphasize transformer and PPO implementation over building data pipelines

Luca Ambrogioni countered that these tests predict candidate capability.

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(((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾@yoavgo#95inTech

my take on this is that yeah of course companies should do technical interviews before offering a job!

but its kinda sad that all the interviews dig into numpy and numeric stability and implementing transformers and the ppo objective, while the job will most likely be data generation pipelines

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(((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾@yoavgo

@LucaAmb i mean sure you have to test something. but you could also interview on technical aspects that will actually matter for the job, and my impression is that the time of writing pytorch as a primary activity are kinda over?

Luca Ambrogioni@LucaAmb

@yoavgo It's important to test basic skills, their are quite predictive of general capabilities and work/study ethics

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Luca Ambrogioni@LucaAmb

@yoavgo It's important to test basic skills, their are quite predictive of general capabilities and work/study ethics

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