The top trading firms had top-end recruiting figured out for ages, without jumping through all these hoops.
There are plenty of other reasons to acqui-hire, but it is not the only or even the most effective way to hire the strongest engineers
The top trading firms had top-end recruiting figured out for ages, without jumping through all these hoops.
There are plenty of other reasons to acqui-hire, but it is not the only or even the most effective way to hire the strongest engineers
Trading firms are surely not hiring for the broad founder-like skill set Anthropic is. Trading firms want narrow extreme technical brilliance.
> founder-like skill set
Successful founder is deeply filtering for very uncommon skills. Effectiveness, grit, decision making, independence, technical plus sales ability.
University is a shit filter in comparison.
The current word is "taste" but even that is way too narrow. Intelligence is close, although usually too academic (hence the VC uni dropout theme).
The other big problem with a independent capable people is that they rarely apply for jobs.