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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: 2) by hash14 on Tuesday October 21 2014, @02:28AM
I wish I hadn't been so busy that I would have been able to post this while the discussion was still relevant...
The article is obviously planted. What engineer in his right mind would go to Business Insider for advice on how to get a job in the tech industry?
What's much more likely is that Mathworks "sponsored" BI to write an article for them. Business Insider is a _business_ publication, and they probably did some "business" with Mathworks to get some publicity for their product. There's nothing objective or technical about it... it just says, "use Matlab," and hopefully it'll convince some unwitting engineer to waste his money on a product that won't help him at all (at least not for working at Google).
Would you ever see BI writing an article telling you to choose the product which is technically superior? Or would they ever even bothering to mention a non-commercial product like Numpy/Scipy or Octave or R? Would they even give you an objective, technical analysis/comparison of any given tool? Feel free to point me out if I'm wrong, but if you want some insight on how relevant business insider understand the technical community, then you might want to check out this [businessinsider.com] article....