Sounds like a horrible way to do a 1-on-1. I understand that you may not care and that may work, but the problem with a lot of companies is the lack of communication perpetrated by this. Sometimes this is the only opportunity to really inquire and ask questions about what's going on. And unless you've been solving the same problems and doing the same job for years, you're not really taking advantage of the time and neither is the manager.
A result of the cancer that is continuously floating silicon valley companies in perpetuity despite them not making a profit for years.
Tesla is overvalued simply by name. Same with Apple. Autonomous driving is still years out and their custom AI chip apparently doesn't do much in the way of helping that yet.
And most of their products are overpriced and poorly engineered. They only really make money on phones and branding. I can't think of single reason to buy any of their laptops or desktops.
There's a lot of problems.
You may be advertising for a candidate you don't support just for the money. Most of the advertising has nothing to do with policy positions. The money paid isn't disclosed. It manipulates people easily because it's fad chasing and the candidate often isn't even in it. It promotes rampant consumerism, validation, and group pressure.
Then again, there's a big problem with Facebook in general. But that's a whole other can of worms.
Do you feel that all the people who work at Facebook have the same integrity problem? Anyone who works for a company that either makes money from or provides services to companies who make money from advertising?
I believe it is some of the people that work there not all obviously, but it's mostly the system that's the problem. Ads nowadays are specifically designed to track you and harvest personal data about you at zero expense to you. They are often deceptive in that they advertise a product always as a cure all for everything and they use proven psychologically manipulative tactics to get you to buy the product instead of demonstrating what the product can do.
Obviously, Facebook has skin in the game to keep this system going. Which is why they're doing a poor job of fact checking ads and would rather not do them at all.
Compared to the hundreds of millions using languages like python, C#, Javascript etc.?
It's mostly a dead language. Didn't even hit the 2019 developer survey on stack overflow. My university never used it and no company I've ever been in has used it and I've been with 4 already.
I'm sure the NSA see's this completely differently. While I understand what you mean, it's very hypocritical when you have agencies like the NSA rolling around.
Can confirm this site is legit. These are all standard recommended texts in CS curriculum.
You could probably substitute SICP with other modern language text books on programming, but you're not really starting from square one so I'd skip to data structures and algorithms.
That being said, from my limited experience with SICP, it's very good. Even the old MIT lectures are good. And it gives you exposure to a functional language.
WARNING: This stuff is very difficult to learn on your own. It takes a considerable amount of time to master and it would be worth it to go to university for support. You will often find that many of this stuff is not directly applicable to the workforce unless you're entering research positions. That being said, if you're a genius, unlike me, and extremely dedicated and consistent (also not me) you probably won't have any difficulty.
I've not taken the MIT course or read the second book so I can't vouch for its quality.
