@AWScloud Programs programs that program other programs (i.e., program synthesis). He/Him.
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@AWScloud Programs programs that program other programs (i.e., program synthesis). He/Him.
@AWScloud Programs programs that program other programs (i.e., program synthesis). He/Him.
@anuytstt I think the comparison here seems to be more about US vs EU professorship calls. In EU calls are usually about filling a position (we have 2 openings in X), in the US they are not (every year we interview and hire the number we can hire). It is sad that in this case, the number went from non-zero to zero, but that is always a possibility sadly. In any case, I agree with you it sucks for the candidates, but one nice (or maybe not nice) thing about the US system is that every university is hiring at the same time, so they have probably also applied to all the other ones
@lindsey @chrisamaphone I think in that case it was the right thing to do, but I don't want to go into details over here
@lindsey @chrisamaphone one specific place I know of didn't cancel interviews. They interviewed everyone anyway and then told people during the interview that there really wasn't a job anymore
@anuytstt What would be the part to be transparent about? Calls usually don't promise that someone will be hired at all. Though this is different by countries usually.
In US is very common in some years for departments to interview many candidates and hire 0.
In US is very common in some years for departments to interview many candidates and hire 0.
@lindsey Here is an interesting thing though. Let's say it's September and your department has to make a decision. We can: 1) post a call and interview but we will only know for sure in February if we can actually hire anyone, 2) not post a call and then if we can hire miss the chance because we didn't.
What would you vote for? 1 can cause heartbreaks, 2 can cause fewer job opportunities for the cohort.
In 11 year as a faculty, I had to twice vote for exactly this
@lindsey sadly this happens a lot more often than people think. I can think of at least 4 cases in the last 12 years in which this happened to people I personally know
@Migueldeicaza Edited in the source. Thanks. Will appear next time we upload on arxiv (likely in a few weeks when we further edit the body)
@Migueldeicaza @regehr What should we change it to?