Job application by Ciro Santilli Created 2025-04-18 Updated 2025-08-08
2025 round one during week of April 21st, not toning down online profiles:
Big tech:
* Google. Many jobs in London, nothing in Paris. www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results
* www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/91141790538572486-senior-software-engineer-google-pixel-graphics Senior Software Engineer, Google Pixel Graphics. Went through entire interview process but LeetCode not good enough. Non-Leetcode went great.
* www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/96937277808091846-senior-software-engineer-pixel-graphics-gpu-software Senior Software Engineer, Pixel Graphics, GPU Software
* 2025-07-22 www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/113249786332619462-senior-software-engineer Senior Software Engineer, TPU Performance, Hardware/Software Co-Design. Hopeless but one must try.
* Amazon, focusing on AWS of course. Lots of jobs in London, nothing in Paris: www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/
* 2025-06-20
* www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2915117/software-development-engineer-aws-uk Software Development Engineer, AWS Utility Computing
* www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/jobs/2884321/systems-development-engineer-database-services Systems Development Engineer, Database Services. Rejected two days later on a Sunday, nice.
* www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/jobs/2530616/senior-systems-development-engineer Senior Systems Development Engineer
* www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/jobs/2902679/senior-systems-engineer Senior Systems Engineer
* Apple Inc., focusing on low level and or embedded bullshit just to see if they give interviews:
* jobs.apple.com/en-gb/details/200523081/swe-kernel-engineer-coreos
* jobs.apple.com/en-gb/details/200577840/gpu-driver-engineer-kernel-firmware first received an email saying I would get an interview. But then they 180'ed a few hours later with some excuse. But the job announcement was still up.
* jobs.apple.com/en-gb/details/200604360/virtualisation-engineer
* Microsoft: a few jobs in London, very few in Paris
* Facebook: several boring jobs in London, a few research jobs in Paris
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Open PageRank implementation and data Created 2025-02-26 Updated 2025-07-16
This section is about more "open" PageRank implementations, notably using either or both of:
As of 2025, the most open and reproducible implementation appears to be whatever Common Crawl web graph official PageRank does, which is to use WebGraph. It's quite beautiful.
Updates / Quick fun with the Common Crawl web graph Created 2025-02-26 Updated 2025-07-16
I wanted to do a quick exploration of open PageRank implementation and data.
My general motivation for this is that a PageRank-like algorithm could be useful for more accurate user and article ranking on OurBigBook, see: Section "PageRank-like ranking"
But it could also be just generally cool to apply it to other graph datasets, e.g. for computing an Wikipedia internal PageRank.
A quick Google reveals only Open PageRank, but their methods are apparently closed source.
Then I had a look at the Common Crawl web graph data to see if I could easily calculate it myself, and... they already have it! See: Section "Common Crawl web graph official PageRank"
Their graph dumps are in BVGraph graph file format, which is the native format of the WebGraph framework, which implements the format and algorithms such as PageRank.
The only thing I miss is a command line interface to calculate the PageRank. That would be so awesome.
The more I look at it the more I love Common Crawl.
In cc-main-2024-25-dec-jan-feb-domain-ranks.txt:
  • cirosantilli.com was ranked ~453k
  • ourbigbook.com was at ~606k