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AI's Human Factor: Fei-Fei Li and Mira Murati
A Greylock-hosted conversation between Stanford's Fei-Fei Li and OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on AI's human dimensions — ethics, access, creativity, and what it means to build AI responsibly. A discussion between two of the most influential women in AI at a pivotal moment.
InterviewThis: Developer Questions for Prospective Employers
InterviewThis is an open-source list of questions for developers to ask prospective employers — covering engineering culture, team dynamics, technical practices, and company health. Reverses the usual interview direction: candidates evaluating companies.
Data Science Interview Questions and Answers
A community-maintained GitHub repo of data science and ML interview questions and answers — covering statistics, machine learning theory, algorithms, and coding. A useful study guide and signal for what interviewers actually test.
What I Learned from Doing 60+ Technical Interviews in 30 Days
Emmanuel Okafor's post-mortem on doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days — 13 lessons grouped into pre-interview, during-interview, and post-interview phases. One of the most data-rich personal accounts of systematic technical interview practice.
Hiring Without Whiteboards
The Airtable-based Hiring Without Whiteboards list — companies that use practical, work-sample interviews instead of algorithmic puzzles. A valuable reference for engineers who find whiteboard interviews a poor signal for the actual job.
HN: 40 Statistics Interview Problems and Answers
A Hacker News thread discussing a list of 40 statistics interview problems — the HN comments add context, caveats, and additional problems to the original post. A snapshot of what statistics knowledge is actually tested in data science interviews.
160 Data Science Interview Questions
Alexey Grigorev's compilation of 160 data science interview questions across statistics, machine learning, SQL, and programming — a broad coverage reference for data science interview preparation, organized by topic.
Data Scientist Interview Puzzle Questions — Mike Tamir
Mike Tamir's Quora answer on brainstorming and puzzle questions asked in data science interviews. Useful for both candidates prepping for interviews and hiring managers designing them — the best puzzles test statistical intuition, not memorization.
Must Read Before Attending Any Data Science Interview
Data Science Central's pre-interview reading list covering statistics, machine learning, coding, and business acumen questions asked in 2014 data science interviews. A historical snapshot of what the field considered core practitioner knowledge.
Questions I'm Asking in Interviews
Julia Evans's list of questions she asks companies during technical interviews — focused on understanding engineering culture, code quality, and whether she'd actually grow there. The kind of due-diligence list that flips the interview dynamic.
ABC: Always Be Coding
David Byttow's Medium post arguing that the best way to get a software engineering job at top companies is to code constantly — side projects, open source, and deliberate practice rather than cramming interview prep. The ABC (Always Be Coding) philosophy.
Coding for Interviews — Book Recommendations
Coding for Interviews was a weekly newsletter and book-recommendation site for software engineering interview preparation — curating the canonical algorithm and data structure books used in technical interviews at top tech companies.
Get That Job at Google
Steve Yegge's definitive guide on how to prepare for and pass Google software engineering interviews, written in 2008 and widely read through the 2010s. The advice is brutally practical: most candidates fail because they stopped practicing algorithms and data structures after college.
Inverse FizzBuzz
Hacker News discussion of Inverse FizzBuzz: given output like 'fizz buzz fizzbuzz fizz', figure out the smallest integer range that produces it. A clever inversion of the classic coding interview problem that tests parsing/reasoning rather than just implementation.