Comment by agnosticmantis
3 years ago
I heard they try to hire for aptitude/talent. The sophisticated stuff they will teach you if you’re hired.
This is similar to how math Olympiad students are picked, most questions involve combinatorics and Euclidean geometry instead of advanced calculus, as anyone can understand a basic counting problem, but it’d take a few semesters to define the terms in a typical calculus problem.
Although Olympiad is only counting, there is considerable prep and practice that goes into it.
That’s true. I meant (almost) everyone can understand the ‘statement’ of Olympiad-level counting problems, but of course solving them is another issue.