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This 22-year-old Alexandr Wang interviewed me for a full-time position and rejected me... Just kidding, he was 19 when he interviewed and rejected me. That was three years ago when I was a senior at Waterloo. In my defense, they never explicitly rejected me—they just ghosted me after the interview. I'll show you the emails later.

Alexandr Wang is the CEO of Scale AI. Scale is a data platform for AI. AI is really built on top of data, and these algorithms require billions and billions of examples of labeled data to perform in a safe and reliable way.

Let's take a look at their old website. This company used to be called Scale API, and it wasn’t only focused on labeling training data. They built an API for human labor. We’re going to go back to August 2016...

Watch this video for the Email Exchange, Take-Home Project, Project Demo, and Interview with the CEO.

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