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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Jane StreetJane Street

What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition

Exploring the unique aspects of the 2020 internship season.

8/17/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Breaking Loose from Third-Party Lock-In with Custom Refactoring Tools

How to break free from third-party lock-in by using custom refactoring tools in software development.

8/11/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

The Jane Street Interview Process — 2020 Edition

The blogpost discusses the updated and transparent interview process for software engineering candidates at Jane Street in 2020, including changes made due to COVID-19.

7/24/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

DeveloperBridge: SoundCloud’s Program for Training People from Diverse Backgrounds to Become Engineers

A year-long, full-time, paid traineeship program for training people from diverse backgrounds to become engineers by learning from and working with engineering teams at SoundCloud.

7/17/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI Scholars 2020: Final projects

Discover the innovative final projects of OpenAI Scholars 2020 cohort.

7/9/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Changing the Interview Process during Remote Working

Changing the interview process and its challenges in a remote work setting.

6/30/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Technical Interview Reform, Part 2: The Recruiting Perspective and Results

The blogpost discusses the recruiting perspective and results of technical interview reform, as a follow-up to Part 1 which focused on rethinking the backend engineering interview take-home challenge.

6/26/2020
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Technical Interview Reform, Part 1: Rethinking the Backend Engineering Interview Take-Home Challenge

Reforming the backend engineering interview process by rethinking the take-home challenge

6/25/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

RL Unplugged: Benchmarks for Offline Reinforcement Learning

A proposal for a benchmark called RL Unplugged to evaluate and compare offline RL methods with diverse datasets from various domains.

6/24/2020
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Applying for technical roles

Addressing the gender gap in the STEM workforce and providing guidance for women on applying for technical roles.

6/23/2020
Jane StreetJane Street

Really low latency multipliers and cryptographic puzzles

Exploring the use of FPGAs for low-latency systems and the increased accessibility of renting FPGA cards on the cloud

6/22/2020
OpenAIOpenAI

Procgen and MineRL Competitions

Exploring the latest advancements in procedural generation and MineRL competitions

6/20/2020