4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Companies often use performance on competitive-programming-style problems when hiring relatively junior candidates.

Unresolved speaker · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

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“I mean, in fact, companies often hire people based on, if they're relatively junior,”
“based on their performance on these kinds of problems.”
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