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by mattkrause 2265 days ago
My background is a mix of neuroscience/biology and machine learning, and it's always funny to me how jobs right on that margin interview totally differently, depending on how the organization started.

If they think of themselves as "tech", you're at the whiteboard, reversing strings in C and playing games with trees. When I interviewed for nearly identical job in a "science" department, someone spent 45 minutes chatting with me about the coding behind projects I had mentioned. I even offered to show or write soome code and got told "Nah, we already looked at your github and it's fine."