We have a floor full of interns right now. Our India and Mexico offices do as well. Some of them will probably be offered full-time roles.
I hired a junior engineering a few years ago. And have done every few years for about a decade.
I work at a mid-size, PE-owned company that's been around for 50+ years, that operates in the enterprise SaaS space. Junior roles aren't going anywhere. But, the expectations of those junior hires will change (as they have evolved since I was junior myself, way back in the 90s).
Will AI change how we hire and retain talent? Of course.
We, at a large Dutch bank, also do have 20+ interns but 0 positions for them in IT department. Leadership is projecting that if you do well in internship then you'll be hired. But no interns were hired in last 2 years...
People have been asking the executive class this for a long while now: why don’t you care about training? Their response has ever been silence or threats or that’s what school is for. Do it on your own time, after the 50+ hours we demand from you. Some places get it and had a proper pipeline to train. A vast majority do not. And now they give us this. Great bunch of folks.
Basically the idea is become a senior at your own expense. Work for years without pay and only then get a job if and only if the new AI models by that time hasn't made mid or senior level engineers redundant as well.
Key phrase is you hired them a few years ago. That’s not helpful in the discussion now.
Edit: Missed this was in response to “extinct for a long time” which makes more sense. It is true that it is an entirely different world than three years ago.
That’s an odd take for a massively successful person. In the realm of producing hip-hop, his taste and skill are at the top of the industry.
Sort of like saying Bill Belichick has a skill gap because he’s not a top NFL player. AFAIK he never played pro ball at all (and college wasn’t at a top D1 program). Bit, he’s undeniably one of the most successful coaches in the business.
Rubin was also in the right place at the right time.
Putting out Run-DMC – Raising Hell, Slayer – Reign in Blood and Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill in the same year is completely insane but things are probably much different if he is 20 years older or 20 years younger. '
He was in the perfect place as hip hop and metal were taking off.
I think by skill they mean that Rick Rubin plays no instruments and actively acknowledges this. In interviews he repeatedly claims his only skill is knowing what sounds good and will make money.
As an aside, beleichick was a lacrosse player as a hobby/sport/passion, not an American football player. I’m very torn at the moment if he was an incredible coach or just rode the wave or Brady talent.
I pay a lot of attention to football as a hobby (and a gambling outlet) so these next two seasons at UNC for ‘ol Bill will be really telling.
> I’m very torn at the moment if he was an incredible coach or just rode the wave or Brady talent.
Honestly, it’s hard to imagine they’d have been anywhere near that successful if the answer wasn't just "both."
You see plenty of examples of great coaches stuck with lousy rosters (Parcells with the Cowboys), and also great players on poorly run teams (Patricia-era Lions). Usually when a team only has one or the other, they continually flame out early in the playoffs.
> these next two seasons at UNC for ‘ol Bill will be really telling.
I wouldn’t read too much into that. He’s 73, the game’s evolved a lot, and coaching college is a whole different thing from the NFL. It’s incredibly rare for someone to excel at both — guys like Pete Carroll being the exception that prove the rule.
he also said he started always with anxiety, was pushing, working not in a comfort zone. For me this Looks very much like „do, learn“. Another Rick Rubim quote: Humanity breeds in the mistakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brPHcAJn7ZU
You’re saying the same thing as GP. Let me attempt to clarify.
What GP is saying is not that Rick Rubin has no skill anywhere, but that he recognized he has 100/100 taste and instead of trying to become a hip hop artist, instead became a producer for other artists.
In the same way, you’ve described how Bill Belichick recognized his taste in what makes a player good is not enough to make him also a good player, so he positioned himself to take advantage of his 100/100 taste rather than whatever skill value he may have.
It’s weird to frame Belicheck as a talent picker first. Yes, he had a lot of control but he was a coach first, not a GM. The thing that made him extraordinary was not identifying talent it was orchestrating a team system to take advantage of individual talents. Compared to other coaches that had one system and tried to fit players rigidly into it, Belicheck was master of adapting the system to the personnel. Of course he also had Brady and a lot of control on personnel, but it’s ridiculous to speak as if it was primarily his taste that made the Patriots great.
No, more basic than that - if there’s no “tabula rasa” (and people have inborn behavioral traits), then hate groups will use those traits (no matter how poorly proven or unlikely to be found across an entire group) to justify their belief system.
"I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning"
It's not wrong, but possibly ambiguous, and I'd bet an English teacher would prefer it was phrased differently. In speech, I wouldn't bat an eye at that arrangement. But, if I were to write the headline, it would have been...
"I used machine learning to count all the yurts in Mongolia."
Yep, an online acquaintance gifted me an Olympus 35 RC he hadn’t touched in decades. My 35 DC was <$200 last year. My E-M5ii was <$500 years ago.
Yeah, the first two are 35mm film, but they’re phenomenal cameras within the scope of what they are (fixed lens rangefinders - basically the 1970s version of today’s Fuji X100). The E-M5 hasn’t let me down, and the latest models from OM don’t offer enough to make me upgrade (and I have little desire to switch mounts).
HEIC for photos taken by my iPhone. Apple stuff seems to do a mostly ok job auto-converting to JPG when needed (I assume, since I haven’t manually converted one in ages).
And JPG for photos taken on a “real” camera (including scanned negatives). Sometimes RAW, but they’re pretty large so not often.
I found that if you plug a iphone into a windows PC and copy the photos off it will convert to jpg. However it makes copying very slow, and the quality is worse, so I'd advise to turn off the setting on the phone (I think its compatibility mode or similar)
I'm about 50/50 with rental cars working with CarPlay easily (ie, the pairing dialogs pop up and run without issue).
But, when the pairing fails, I just don't bother. There's nothing on CarPlay that is 100% necessary to use a rental. Yeah, it's nice to have. But, I'd rather do without than waste a few hours trying to configure it on a car I don't own.
I built an exploding pie, put it in the fridge with a "do not eat me" sign, not my problem somebody blew off their arm.
Processes should/must be built with the users in mind. Users do unexpected, stupid things.
So, yeah, the car itself isn't doing anything wrong, but the whole "fleet use" system designed by BMW+fleet owners appears massively flawed. And that system includes all the software.
> the whole "fleet use" system designed by BMW+fleet owners appears massively flawed.
It would seem that the system works just fine, it's just completely being ignored by the rental company.
I could just as easily tape a cheap cell phone inside a hotel room to the wall and record the other guests with it. If the hotel cleaning staff doesn't clean the room and remove the device, how is that any different?
That's interesting, as CarPlay is mostly just a fancy screen share.
You don't need a profile on the car, at least not a manually entered profile. I always assumed the "pairing" was more of a basic handshake than some big data load/share/whatever.
I hired a junior engineering a few years ago. And have done every few years for about a decade.
I work at a mid-size, PE-owned company that's been around for 50+ years, that operates in the enterprise SaaS space. Junior roles aren't going anywhere. But, the expectations of those junior hires will change (as they have evolved since I was junior myself, way back in the 90s).
Will AI change how we hire and retain talent? Of course.
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