You shouldn't confuse "getting a job there is hard" with "the interview process is random and skewed toward false negatives, with an especially bad job done wit

You shouldn't confuse "getting a job there is hard" with "the interview process is random and skewed toward false negatives, with an especially bad job done with experienced candidates" --- "Second problem: every 'experienced' interviewer has a set of pet subjects and possibly specific questions that he or she feels is an accurate gauge of a candidate's abilities. The question sets for any two interviewers can be widely different and even entirely non-overlapping." -- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog... "I have 25 years of software development under my belt, I published a book, spoke at various conferences in Europe, have a Github profile (admittedly not very lively), worked for well-established enterprises and have great references. Why shall I still prove myself?" -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10757186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10757186