My impression as a former SDE was that it's already accounted for. Hoards of new hires from college join each year and the hiring process is getting cheaper for that pipeline. I think they know that while increasing throughput in the hiring pipeline they're also letting in some low performers, so PIP is one mechanism to shed some weight.
I also worked there and what I like about the phrasing in the quote above is that it surfaces the possibility of turning a one-way-door into a two-way-door.
To me it comes down to the language barrier. Not having a good command of English (or the local language) hinders your ability to integrate with the locals. Learning English for a person from a Western country is way easier than for a Chinese person.
From my experience in the UK it was not. I spoke enough english to write and defend a PHD thesis. Yet I could never "click" with British society... even while being the "friendly mexican" I was just that... and i did want to get more "assimilated " by the culture.
It's a cultural thing, some cultures are more open and welcoming than others.
> Update, June 9: Since announcing our $10 million donation, we’ve heard many employees are making their own contributions—and we’ve decided to match their donations 100% up to $10,000 per employee to these 12 organizations until July 6, 2020.
In this case, other context clues tell us that the article means 'velocity as in software development'.
Agile, for example, is another general term that has a fairly specific meaning in this context.
If you overhear someone in a park say "Oh, you guys are agile? What's your average velocity?" would you assume they are talking about athletics or software development?
Like others said - keep trying. I was rejected by both companies once, and now I work for Amazon. You get better with time.
Also, both companies have quite different styles of interviews (whiteboard programming aside). Really pay attention to what the recruiters suggest to study up before the interview.
It needs to be free, open-source, and available for commercial use. I'm not the only person who ever builds ConceptNet, and my company is not the only company who ever builds ConceptNet. It would be unreasonable to ask downstream users to get a Stardog license.
Stardog doesn't even show me a price for putting a billion edges into it, just an e-mail link marked "INQUIRE", so I have to assume it would be very, very expensive.
Thanks for the offer, but I'd only go with that model if there were no other options, and right now you're competing with SQLite and a filesystem, which have no additional costs.
