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from the Mathamagician-of-Digitopolis dept.
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 [last night] but often do is, 'Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it [are] the samurai.'"
(Score: 3, Funny) by morgauxo on Sunday October 19 2014, @04:07AM
If I could afford to buy Matlab why would I need a job?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 19 2014, @04:26AM
To keep busy?
(Score: 1) by tftp on Sunday October 19 2014, @04:40AM
It's just a test on your "Internet skillz." Factual knowledge of Matlab is very much optional.
Besides, what percentage of real world coders need to know more than the sin, cos, sqrt? How much math is in Android, outside of java.lang.Math? How good must you be with solving differential equations if you only need to scroll a page by a flick? If Google requires such skills from every programmer that they hire, they are not reasonable.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday October 19 2014, @05:08AM
Because your college pays a rebated license from MathWorks to get you hooked on it.
Perhaps Python, C, R, GNU Octave, Gnuplot will trash the marketplace for Matlab ..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 19 2014, @12:20PM
You can't afford $500?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday October 19 2014, @06:53PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2) by morgauxo on Monday October 20 2014, @01:12PM
I love it! I think that I WILL send them a resume. It will be mostly blank and it will say something on it about them already knowing everything!
- I'm not really looking for a job right now.