u/EnchantedHawk

if you have questions about how i got it, just save it man.

the role is for research, they focus on SLM's and i have a call for about 45 minutes from what i can see. I need to prepare for this before 16th, leaving me about 4 days. what sort of questions should i focus on?

they want deep understanding of transformer architectures, "efficiency" and "context-length expansion"

I have not given an interview in the research position yet. Looking to hear genuine advice and resources to learn from.

I have an HR interview tomorrow, kinda my very first interview. Im scared, i got told today that ill be having it, leaving me less than 20 hours. they wont budge on changing the time either, they're focussing on Go which i dont know.

I need tips for the interview, idk waht to even expect of this.

alright, straight up i want you to keep in mind that this is fully my opinion and this comes after a lil bit of digging. If this makes me sound like a sore loser and a clown, so be it but its unfair.

as a college graduate its important to know what the OSS world is like, hence getting into GSOC to see how these SOTA software features are shipped with some of the best engineers. As of late, I have noticed a trend with some popular organisations that are funded by a larger open source initiative which are a composition of multiple large MNC's.

I noticed this while reading about the maintainers, im assuming the MNC's are mandating these engineers to contribute since they're pouring the money into OSS. Next prong, GSOC rules where anybody over the age of 18, eligible to work in their respective country can be selected, do you see the loophole?

these orgs which take part end up choosing the parent MNC engineers (atleast in the case of my org), mind you these are fkin engineers with multiple years of experience they'll get in no matter what. So what's the point of applying, if you wish to learn and dont care much about milking GSOC?

i spent over 6months in two orgs, focused on the wrong one until the mentor said they're not gonna appear for GSOC. then familiarised with the new codebase, engaged with the fellow contributors, mentors and attended community calls to see what the next priority was.

After all that, i gathered enough progress and made a proposal. Now i get to see some random dude get the project, while top contributors and the ones who interacted with the initial proposal are left with [ ] and an "unfortunately" email. This is just disappointing to see how GSoC has become an AI fest, i mean the guy isnt even on the contributors list!

i understand i should not have high hopes since i was relatively new to the org, but i cant fathom how much worse it was for the ones who gave it their best only to get nothing back.
FML, im just so broken and sad. ideh have friends to share this with.

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