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Seriously one month of studying algorithms and he's prepared? I had the impression google interviews were a lot harder than this.
by crimsonalucard 10y ago
Seriously one month of studying algorithms and he's prepared? I had the impression google interviews were a lot harder than this.
- buckbova 10y agoWell, he wasn't offered the job. So, we'll never know how prepared. Practice does help for these whiteboarding style questions. I completed a bunch of https://www.hackerrank.com/ https://www.hackerrank.com/ problems prior to my last set of technical interviews and it definitely helped keep me sharp. My day to day CRUD work is rarely helpful in that regard.
- crimsonalucard 10y agoI know, but I would argue you need a year of this stuff and really deep intuition. One month of hackerrank isn't enough. The problems google throws at you are not trivial.
- agumonkey 10y agoDon't you feel strange knowing you may be asked number theory question when you might end up writing casual CRUD ? ps: hackerrank is neat.
- crimsonalucard 10y agoIt's strange but why hire a rocket technician when you can get a rocket scientist with the same skills (+more) for the same price?
- agumonkey 10y agoBecause a boredom frustration depressed scientist may not be the best thing in life ?
- linkregister 10y agoIt looked like he was putting in 4+ hours per day. He implemented all of these algorithms in code. I think it's pretty amazing. It took me about the same amount of time to implement a B+ tree variant for my Data Structures class in college. Pretty impressive on his part. Either that or I'm unimpressive ;)
- 27182818284 10y agoI guess it depends on the role. I've seen some pretty tough Google questions, but that was years ago. "Talk about the three main parts of TCP/IP" "Talk about what you would do in a new BIND configuration file" etc