@NaturalViolence
My biggest issue is I can't tell what's really a great company, other than the most obvious ones, except it seems even they may try some shady shit. For example, I had some recruiters from Apple for Norwegian language eningeer for Siri (in France). But it was contracted for 6 months, so they may decide then to throw you out/keep you based on whether they need you. And also the pay was lower than my current pay, apparantly Apple don't like paying so much in France. However I had a 30 min Skype interview first, but fucked up (kind of bad signal, didn't read the dude's emotions and whatnot, recruiters were even mad afterwards, I offended Apple's guy or something). But when I tried Norwegian Siri a few years later now, it still sucks anyway IMO.
A company called Cognite, I was very curious on them, since they will attempt to save the oil industry $billions with machinery IoT sensors/VR inspections, are one of Google Cloud's biggest partners, and they tried getting some people I know who got into math/computer science national olympics finals to join them. I heard from a recruiter he would send them my details, but then I never heard from him again. 3 months later however, the boss of Cognite contacted me for an interview, both AI and work with Unreal Engine to optimize rendering of CAD models. No mention of the recruiter (maybe he had a 3 month expiration and they screwed him). But this was right after I signed for my current job, so even though they said I could just ask them anything, I just ignored them afterwards. Also the boss was jailed 1 year back in the day for bad accounting in his old company, so even though it may be a great company, I was a bit more skeptical at that time.
Equinor (Norway's biggest company) I interviewed for, pretty much the same job as Cognite, except they wanted to use Unity Engine instead of Unreal Engine to visualize CAD models. They had a worse interview and kind of just asked me if I could optimize room partitioning/dynamic loading, sounded like they didn't know themselves, I said I wasn't to sure how easy it would be (maybe I should have YOLO'ed?). And they kind of lost the race to Cognite which is doing much better.
My biggest issue is I can't tell what's really a great company, other than the most obvious ones, except it seems even they may try some shady shit. For example, I had some recruiters from Apple for Norwegian language eningeer for Siri (in France). But it was contracted for 6 months, so they may decide then to throw you out/keep you based on whether they need you. And also the pay was lower than my current pay, apparantly Apple don't like paying so much in France. However I had a 30 min Skype interview first, but fucked up (kind of bad signal, didn't read the dude's emotions and whatnot, recruiters were even mad afterwards, I offended Apple's guy or something). But when I tried Norwegian Siri a few years later now, it still sucks anyway IMO.
A company called Cognite, I was very curious on them, since they will attempt to save the oil industry $billions with machinery IoT sensors/VR inspections, are one of Google Cloud's biggest partners, and they tried getting some people I know who got into math/computer science national olympics finals to join them. I heard from a recruiter he would send them my details, but then I never heard from him again. 3 months later however, the boss of Cognite contacted me for an interview, both AI and work with Unreal Engine to optimize rendering of CAD models. No mention of the recruiter (maybe he had a 3 month expiration and they screwed him). But this was right after I signed for my current job, so even though they said I could just ask them anything, I just ignored them afterwards. Also the boss was jailed 1 year back in the day for bad accounting in his old company, so even though it may be a great company, I was a bit more skeptical at that time.
Equinor (Norway's biggest company) I interviewed for, pretty much the same job as Cognite, except they wanted to use Unity Engine instead of Unreal Engine to visualize CAD models. They had a worse interview and kind of just asked me if I could optimize room partitioning/dynamic loading, sounded like they didn't know themselves, I said I wasn't to sure how easy it would be (maybe I should have YOLO'ed?). And they kind of lost the race to Cognite which is doing much better.
Specs: intel i5 3570k @ 3.4GHz;
16Gb RAM; Raedon HD 7900;
Win8 64-Bit
16Gb RAM; Raedon HD 7900;
Win8 64-Bit