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The ability to interview will only get you so far though. At that rate he would be a colleague of mine, and I wonder if he would actually bring anything to tha
by gjolund 10y ago
The ability to interview will only get you so far though.
At that rate he would be a colleague of mine, and I wonder if he would actually bring anything to that table.
I have worked with plenty of people who come from non-tech backgrounds and are phenomenally productive, and he may be one of those people.
Either way I would pay to be a fly on the wall during his 3-month review.
- beamatronic 10y agoI couldn't get past a phone screen with them because they wanted 10 different ways to tell what your current shell is ( from the command line ) and I could only think of 5. Personally, I prefer to code up an algorithm, even if it isn't perfect, and then do instrumented testing; for me the fun part is tweaking and optimizing.
- stuxnet79 10y agoSimilar - couldn't make it past the phone screen. Got killed by a DP problem which in hindsight was quite approachable but my CS fundamentals weren't very fresh in my mind at the time.
- stuxnet79 10y agoSo in addition to the hazing you have to endure before you work at one of these big tech companies, you also have to face a 3 month review that could very well end up in you being canned? I thought the entire point of the hazing was to prevent false positives? I'd like to know how many Google candidates don't make it past 3 months for "performance reasons".
- beamatronic 10y ago>> you also have to face a 3 month review that could very well end up in you being canned? I think that this (3-ish month review) is true pretty much anywhere, if even as an informal process. edit: clarity