<story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajeshp1986</author><text>&amp;quot;I realized that, while I had a very deep understanding of artificial intelligence, I did not yet have some of the basics down. I knew how a database worked. I knew how an operating system worked. I knew how a compiler worked. But I hadn&amp;#x27;t taken classes on those topics, so I went back for my master&amp;#x27;s and took the rest of the AI offerings as well as a lot of programming basics. That way, I could actually go and market myself as a software engineer and say, “I&amp;#x27;ve written a compiler. I&amp;#x27;ve written an operating system. I&amp;#x27;ve written a database. I know how they work&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I am confused. Is she talking about foundation CS courses like OS &amp;amp; database systems OR AI courses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antt</author><text>Keep in mind that she is a queen of self promotion. When she was talking about 140 hour work weeks she conveniently left out the fact she was paying someone else to do her domestic work [0]. Or that most of her days involved meetings, lunches and dinners.&lt;p&gt;I am reminded of the story of Henry IV who stood barefoot in the snow for three days. And through the grace of God not getting frost bite. We have come so far when we no longer believe you need God for acts like this.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com.au&amp;#x2F;marissa-mayer-who-just-banned-working-from-home-paid-to-have-a-nursery-built-at-her-office-2013-2?r=US&amp;amp;IR=T&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com.au&amp;#x2F;marissa-mayer-who-just-ba...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rajeshp1986</author><text>&amp;quot;I realized that, while I had a very deep understanding of artificial intelligence, I did not yet have some of the basics down. I knew how a database worked. I knew how an operating system worked. I knew how a compiler worked. But I hadn&amp;#x27;t taken classes on those topics, so I went back for my master&amp;#x27;s and took the rest of the AI offerings as well as a lot of programming basics. That way, I could actually go and market myself as a software engineer and say, “I&amp;#x27;ve written a compiler. I&amp;#x27;ve written an operating system. I&amp;#x27;ve written a database. I know how they work&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I am confused. Is she talking about foundation CS courses like OS &amp;amp; database systems OR AI courses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rrdharan</author><text>She majored in Symbolic Systems as an undergrad:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Symbolic_Systems&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Symbolic_Systems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, foundational CS classes are not a requirement for that degree. Although I do know people who majored in Symbolic Systems and completed such courses in undergrad, I assume they were electives rather than requirements.</text></comment>