Can someone confirm if Sama was asked DSA in his Microsoft interview ?

He tried joining google, but couldn't invert a binary tree 🌲

This is epic moves from Satya Nadella Sam Altman is on such a path, I wonder what kind of a negotiation happened to make him okay with being a big tech employee

Sam Altman is treated as some sort of AI pioneer, which is extremely overblown by the media. The guy is not an AI researcher / engineer or anything and is just a figurehead. The current Generative AI revolution was started by Google and an Indian named ashish vaswani in his seminal paper " Attention is all you need," where he introduced transformers. Even at OpenAI, there are plenty of capable people like IIya who can drive the company forward and can do a much better job.

As for Microsoft, MSR was once the pioneer in AI research (Especially Computer Vision), but now is a shell of its former shelf. Most of the original engineers and researchers have moved to better places like Nvidia, Google Brain, or FAIR because Satya gutted the research spending and paid them peanuts. Now, Sam is apparently hired by Satya to lead AI research initiatives at MS, which is ironic because it was self-inflicted by Satya in the first place. There is no way this will work out .

PS : I made this comment in another thread and just copied and pasted it here.

But he was still asked, “Where do u see urself in 5 years?”

Perhaps damage control after losing m-cap of $80-85 billion since Friday?

Sama left openAI because it was leaked that the Indian LinkedIn influencer used Gpt to get the script of that interview. Sama couldn’t handle the pain of his algo hallucinating to this extend and therefore had to leave openAI. He didn’t have any option!

Patt se headshot!!

fastest hiring done by Microsoft EVER.

Amazing to witness all of this in real time.

It's the Michael Scott paper company moment of AI tech.