If you dig at it carefully, you will discover that Intel's "acquisition" of DEC's semiconductor properties was a case of DEC having "Intel over a Barrel" re blatant patent infringement coupled with DEC desiring to exit the chip manufacturing business. At the time, the StrongARM CPU was more capable, and significantly faster than the top-of-the-line Intel CPU. The catch was that Intel had to negotiate rights with ARM re: the StrongARM/XScale processors in order to make them (and that took 'Moore' than a year).
In this case, an actually valid concern: "Have you now, or have you ever been employed by facebook" (paraphrasing "have you now, or have you ever been a communist") If you were/are employed by facebook, you clearly/obviously/intentionally took steps to undermine the privacy of American citizens, which violates the 4th amendment: "...effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,..."
Because of this, you are guilty of intentional acts agains the US Constitution,. Yep, TREASON!
Context: i graduated with a CS degree in 1983, and have been doing systems-ish stuff ever since. Compilers/Runtimes/Binary Translation/Interposing&Intercepting user space calls for security purposes. No web-ish stuff all all.
Thus: when interviewing candidates for similar positions, debugging skills are key. Which means that general problem solving approaches are critical. Pseudo-code is just fine. Goofs are acceptable, and if the candidate can adapt to changing requirements (aka annoying product requirement changes) that is a big plus. I've recommended "HIRE NOW!" for one guy who got stuck on one part of the puzzle presented, but admitted it, and clearly had an approach outlined to attempting to solve it with more time. Fortunately, we hired him (great contributor)
How much did Intel pay the relevant company to switch?
And/Or, were there any payments by Intel in terms of cash/stock/options to the managers of the company which switched?
Lots of software managers are looking for "rock stars" for their teams.
Despite the behavioral facts:
- rock stars tend to be in-your-face-public with their ideas (prima donnas)
- they show up, then trash the environment (prima donnas, again)
- leaving a total mess for everyone else to sort out. And if you are the 'everyone else', you get downgraded
for not being 'a rock star'.
- the hiring criteria seems to be not what you know/have done AND delivered, it is how well you take their tests,
how arrogant you are during the interview, and how well you take the tests when the interviewer did not read your resume.
This is even more difficult for a Junior developer without a PhD, or are a bit more humble. The interview process can be
intimidating just out of school.
Candid suggestions: unless you have a PhD or a pile of patents as sole inventor, don't waste your time interviewing for software with AMD or NVidia.
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Conspiracy Theory: It was 'the Donald' himself. A further attempt to muddy the picture and distract from the Russian investigation
If you dig at it carefully, you will discover that Intel's "acquisition" of DEC's semiconductor properties was a case of DEC having "Intel over a Barrel" re blatant patent infringement coupled with DEC desiring to exit the chip manufacturing business. At the time, the StrongARM CPU was more capable, and significantly faster than the top-of-the-line Intel CPU. The catch was that Intel had to negotiate rights with ARM re: the StrongARM/XScale processors in order to make them (and that took 'Moore' than a year).
In this case, an actually valid concern: "Have you now, or have you ever been employed by facebook" (paraphrasing "have you now, or have you ever been a communist") If you were/are employed by facebook, you clearly/obviously/intentionally took steps to undermine the privacy of American citizens, which violates the 4th amendment: "...effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, ..."
Because of this, you are guilty of intentional acts agains the US Constitution,. Yep, TREASON!
Context: i graduated with a CS degree in 1983, and have been doing systems-ish stuff ever since. Compilers/Runtimes/Binary Translation/Interposing&Intercepting user space calls for security purposes. No web-ish stuff all all. Thus: when interviewing candidates for similar positions, debugging skills are key. Which means that general problem solving approaches are critical. Pseudo-code is just fine. Goofs are acceptable, and if the candidate can adapt to changing requirements (aka annoying product requirement changes) that is a big plus. I've recommended "HIRE NOW!" for one guy who got stuck on one part of the puzzle presented, but admitted it, and clearly had an approach outlined to attempting to solve it with more time. Fortunately, we hired him (great contributor)
How much did Intel pay the relevant company to switch? And/Or, were there any payments by Intel in terms of cash/stock/options to the managers of the company which switched?
Lots of software managers are looking for "rock stars" for their teams. Despite the behavioral facts: - rock stars tend to be in-your-face-public with their ideas (prima donnas) - they show up, then trash the environment (prima donnas, again) - leaving a total mess for everyone else to sort out. And if you are the 'everyone else', you get downgraded for not being 'a rock star'. - the hiring criteria seems to be not what you know/have done AND delivered, it is how well you take their tests, how arrogant you are during the interview, and how well you take the tests when the interviewer did not read your resume. This is even more difficult for a Junior developer without a PhD, or are a bit more humble. The interview process can be intimidating just out of school. Candid suggestions: unless you have a PhD or a pile of patents as sole inventor, don't waste your time interviewing for software with AMD or NVidia.