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The AI Battle Between Microsoft and Google - How ChatGPT and Bard AI Will Shape Society

The AI Battle Between Microsoft and Google - How ChatGPT and Bard AI Will Shape Society

The rate of innovation in AI has never been faster. In the past week: * Google released their highly anticipated chatbot, Bard AI * Microsoft and OpenAI held a joint live event announcing the integration of their chatbot, ChatGPT, into Bing and the Edge browser The increasing power of Artificial Intelligence has

Inside The Layoff Era of Big Tech (Meta, Google, Amazon Layoffs)

Inside The Layoff Era of Big Tech (Meta, Google, Amazon Layoffs)

In the past 5 days: * Google laid off 12,000 * Microsoft laid off 10,000 * Amazon laid off 18,000 When I joined Meta back in 2017, I never expected to see large-scale layoffs at the biggest, most profitable tech companies in the world (Meta laid off 11,000 employees

Software Engineer Interview Guide - System Design

Software Engineer Interview Guide - System Design

Congratulations, you are now proficient with both algorithms and behavioral questions and are at the final step: System design questions. System design questions are scary and tricky, because they have no right answer, similar to behavioral questions. This is why these questions are crucial for passing your software engineering interview:

Software Engineer Interview Guide - Data Structures and Algorithms

Software Engineer Interview Guide - Data Structures and Algorithms

You made an awesome resume, applied to a bunch of jobs, and landed a couple interviews. You diligently prepared for them, and the time has come for the real thing. So what should you do once you step foot into that interview room? Well, that's what we're going to do