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The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google
HughPickens.com writes Jim Edwards writes at Business Insider that Google is so large and has such a massive need for talent that if you have the right skills, Google is really enthusiastic to hear from you — especially if you know how to use MatLab, a fourth-generation programming language that allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, Java, Fortran and Python. The key is that data is produced visually or graphically, rather than in a spreadsheet. According to Jonathan Rosenberg , Google's former senior vice president for product management, being a master of statistics is probably your best way into Google right now and if you want to work at Google, make sure you can use MatLab. Big data — how to create it, manipulate it, and put it to good use — is one of those areas in which Google is really enthusiastic about. The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. When every business has free and ubiquitous data, the ability to understand it and extract value from it becomes the complimentary scarce factor. It leads to intelligence, and the intelligent business is the successful business, regardless of its size. Rosenberg says that "my quote about statistics that I didn't use but often do is, 'Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it the samurai.'"
Encryption is the poisoned dart of the 21st century, those who wield it well, the Ninja.
"Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it the samurai."
That's the douchiest way of saying "knowledge is power" that I have ever heard.
Around here (engineering department of Fortune 500 company that makes real things, not web apps), MATLAB is god.
It's like.. I can hardly imagine a person who isn't a MATLAB expert could have any useful input on an engineering matter.
Everything can be done inside MATLAB, and it's mostly fast and elegant. I like to think of it as the best parts of Fortran, C and JavaScript all mixed together :-)