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I was invited by Google to its 'secret' interview process – here's what happened

14 points by wolfgke 11y ago

dudul 11y ago
This is a great and refreshing strategy as the actor points out at the end, however, I'm wondering who else has the resources and huge audience to implement it.
- joezydeco 11y ago
  HN's own tptacek is working on that specific problem: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/
roflchoppa 11y ago
Its super cool that just through means of monitoring search requests they were able to pin point a potential engineer. "I am what I search" lawl.
- dragonbonheur 11y ago
  I just find it super creepy. Do you think people at IBM will be happy to use Google for web searches related to machine learning and not worry about Google's monitoring? How about the engineers at Yahoo who may want to research ideas about building the ideal social network?
  - roflchoppa 11y ago
    oh the irony is that Yahoo and Google both build mediocre social networks. i had to remake a Facebook account today for a class that I'm taking, the professor states that in todays age we HAVE to have a Facebook account, all i gave them was an email, and within 3 days i "found" 50 friends. No school given, no work given, Nothing. SUPER CREEPY.
    - dragonbonheur 11y ago
      My point wasn't about their efficiency for implementing things but the trust that Google should cultivate instead of snooping on people's searches. If they are monitoring that, what else they are monitoring? And are they monitoring searches from potential competitors? You do understand the problem here, don't you?
carapace 11y ago
I got served this B.S. the other day. It pisses me off. It's intrusive and disturbing and unethical.
metaphorm 11y ago
since when is foo.bar a "secret"? it was shown to thousands (possibly millions?) of people on the internet who displayed even a small amount of interest in programming based on their search history.
- MaulingMonkey 11y ago
  Now I'm wondering why it never showed up for me. The fact that I use an HTTPS connection for google? The long periods I've gone with javascript disabled when the option to disable on-the-fly updates as I typed my search queries didn't work? Different tech stacks than what Google is looking for?
lfowles 11y ago
Hah. That's a very similar search term to the one that got me in foobar.
ChuckMcM 11y ago
Interesting, and this is why people think Google is abusing its popularity as a search engine in monopolistic ways. What better way to "inject yourself" into the conversation right? It would be funny if it took points off for visits to StackOverflow :-) As a hiring manager I have been bombarded with a wide variety of these 'skills based screens.' As everyone seems to have a take on it, I expect this to get worse before it gets better.

14 points by wolfgke 11y ago

dudul 11y ago

This is a great and refreshing strategy as the actor points out at the end, however, I'm wondering who else has the resources and huge audience to implement it.

joezydeco 11y ago
HN's own tptacek is working on that specific problem: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/

roflchoppa 11y ago

Its super cool that just through means of monitoring search requests they were able to pin point a potential engineer. "I am what I search" lawl.

dragonbonheur 11y ago
I just find it super creepy. Do you think people at IBM will be happy to use Google for web searches related to machine learning and not worry about Google's monitoring? How about the engineers at Yahoo who may want to research ideas about building the ideal social network?
- roflchoppa 11y ago
  oh the irony is that Yahoo and Google both build mediocre social networks. i had to remake a Facebook account today for a class that I'm taking, the professor states that in todays age we HAVE to have a Facebook account, all i gave them was an email, and within 3 days i "found" 50 friends. No school given, no work given, Nothing. SUPER CREEPY.
  - dragonbonheur 11y ago
    My point wasn't about their efficiency for implementing things but the trust that Google should cultivate instead of snooping on people's searches. If they are monitoring that, what else they are monitoring? And are they monitoring searches from potential competitors? You do understand the problem here, don't you?

carapace 11y ago

I got served this B.S. the other day. It pisses me off. It's intrusive and disturbing and unethical.

metaphorm 11y ago

since when is foo.bar a "secret"? it was shown to thousands (possibly millions?) of people on the internet who displayed even a small amount of interest in programming based on their search history.

MaulingMonkey 11y ago
Now I'm wondering why it never showed up for me. The fact that I use an HTTPS connection for google? The long periods I've gone with javascript disabled when the option to disable on-the-fly updates as I typed my search queries didn't work? Different tech stacks than what Google is looking for?

lfowles 11y ago

Hah. That's a very similar search term to the one that got me in foobar.

ChuckMcM 11y ago

Interesting, and this is why people think Google is abusing its popularity as a search engine in monopolistic ways. What better way to "inject yourself" into the conversation right? It would be funny if it took points off for visits to StackOverflow :-) As a hiring manager I have been bombarded with a wide variety of these 'skills based screens.' As everyone seems to have a take on it, I expect this to get worse before it gets better.