A private company (Odyssey Marine Exploration) salvaged the wreck illegally:
> On February 17, 2012, it was reported that U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Pizzo ordered Odyssey to return the coins to Spain by February 24, 2012, where they will be dispersed to museums, not to heirs. The Supreme Court declined to stay this order and Odyssey will abide by the decision.[23] On February 24, 2012, two C-130 Hercules aircraft from the Spanish Air Force picked up the treasure in Florida and transported it to Spain.[24] Odyssey petitioned the Supreme Court to reconsider the issues in the case but on May 14, 2012, the court declined to take up the appeal.[25] The coins have been returned to Spain, whereby Spanish law dictates that they can never be sold to the public.
Exactly my thought. That would save many kilotonnes of lightning chargers and cables from being thrown away (and replaced with USB-C ones for no good reason really).
I have lived all my life in Spain and that's not my experience. Maybe in some small rural towns you can (illegally) keep an unfinished work for years, as long as nobody notices.
However, that is absolutely not true for most Spanish cities.
I don't think that take-at-home tests are fair. Most of times I've been given one the 3-4 hours have been actually a weekend. In fact, I have the policy of only accepting take-at-home tests that are interesting problems that help me learn something along the process of developing them.
On the other hand, I also don't like on-site interviews. A random question not-related at all with the position you're interviewing for is given, and have to solve it while you're beholded by a bunch of strangers... Being tired/nervous after a 3/4 hour in-site interview, scenic panic... To sum up, tThe recipe for disaster.
Whe I was the interviewer long ago, I gave them a questionary that could be solved in 1 hour. I made sure to tell the candidates that don't get stressed, look for whatever info you want in internet, and that there's no good/bad answers. In fact, I gave them the questionary and once the time has passed I would get them to check the answers.
There was several level of questions, to prune candidates at different levels. That also helped to determine the level of the candidate (I was working for a 200 employee non-tech company at the time).
I suppose that the questionary could have been asked to be completed in-place, in an empty room and without internet... But, what's the point of that? In the real world a developer is allowed to use internet, in fact, knowing to search is a skill I'd like to check.
Besides, if they had some open-source projects I would take a look at that, and at the end, there was a technical conversation between them and some senior developers about their career.
I don't feel that take-home tests are fair because of the time that is required, but on the other side of it, I excel at them and have gotten my best jobs from returning excellent results on take-home projects in a short amount of time. For some reason, the format just works better for me and it takes a lot of the pressure out of the process. The downsides become more apparent when you're interviewing for several jobs at the same time and have more than one take-home assignment.
I think lots of companies compensate for take-home tests (as we are doing now). Also I think the willingness to do a take-home is in itself a good filter (but you gotta make it interesting, as parent said)
That's right. That's the main point in favor of making the candidate do a simple questionnaire in office (or remote but in real time). Only 1 hour of their time is wasted.
I'm genuely interested, what kind of test could that be? Some tests they have gave me in several interviews:
- Online shops.
- Hackerrank questions.
- Read from a big log file in an efficient manner with Python (did it but there was also a 3-4 hour on-site interview).
Any test that:
1) is similar to the work in the day-to-day role
2) doesn't require more than a 1-2 hour time commitment from a candidate
3) is interesting
HackerRank questions typically don't meet criteria 1 or 3. The best tests are often ones that the engineering team has designed themselves.
Congrats, you're better than most university students I know!
Being so much close to getting your degree, get it! You are almost there!
Besides, when you have your degree you're going to be above your (average) peer because of your real-world experience in Data Science.
If you can continue working and get your degree that would be superb. Once you have 1 year of experience, I think you could search for much better jobs.
My advice here would be to try to move your career path to Machine Learning Engineering. It is a relatively-new mixed-discipline, mostly SWE with some DS and DevOps. There is a coursera course that treats these topics, take a look to it once you have your degree [1]. There is also need for backend engineers with some DS skills. Try to learn Django/Flask/NodeJS/Go and with your DS experience, you're good to go.
Also, get out of Russia as soon as you get the degree and also, get the EU passport as fast as you can. The political situation is going to deteriorate in the following months. In fact, I would try to immigrate to the EU once you have your degree.
Advice for your future job searchs: Do not get un-motivated or depressed because of not passing the interviews (not I don't use the term "fail"). Most positions are already assigned and the rest of the interviews are a way to avoid nepotism claims or other criticism (or even legal repercussions). You won't pass 90% of your interviews, not because of your skill-set, but because there are a miriad of reasons for you to don't be chosen: another candidate is better/asks for less money, position is canceled, HR don't click with you, etc. Don't get discouraged and assume you're going to have to make many interviews to get a position, that's the game (unless you have FAANG experience), I'm afraid.
The achievement is as much a social one as a technological one. Having a common irrigation system shared by multiple competing businesses and having it operate well for hundreds of years is impressive.
What do you mean by "trust"? That searching some term in GitHub can leak some info about your organization? Or that the search does not work fine and return not-so-good results?
A private company (Odyssey Marine Exploration) salvaged the wreck illegally:
> On February 17, 2012, it was reported that U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Pizzo ordered Odyssey to return the coins to Spain by February 24, 2012, where they will be dispersed to museums, not to heirs. The Supreme Court declined to stay this order and Odyssey will abide by the decision.[23] On February 24, 2012, two C-130 Hercules aircraft from the Spanish Air Force picked up the treasure in Florida and transported it to Spain.[24] Odyssey petitioned the Supreme Court to reconsider the issues in the case but on May 14, 2012, the court declined to take up the appeal.[25] The coins have been returned to Spain, whereby Spanish law dictates that they can never be sold to the public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_Project
The treasure can be visited at the Museno Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática in Cartagena (Murcia, Spain) https://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/mnarqua/colecciones/pieza...
Some maps an information about the ship https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/laesferadepapel/2021/11/26/61...