Too Long; Didn't Read
The head of <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/engineering" target="_blank">engineering</a> at a billion-dollar company asks candidates to tell him the scale of data they’ve encountered. I heard anecdotally that one engineer was rejected because “he had only worked with gigabytes, not terabytes, of data”. As an engineer and an entrepreneur, I make a living off by specializing in this kind of scale. I have advised companies on how to run algorithms on terabytes of data, and these days I’m seeing that <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/big-data" target="_blank">big data</a> is de rigueur and companies seem to consider the size of the data proportional to the value it can generate.