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What do you mean by "Google interviewing model"? Are you suggesting that this is a problem at Google and companies that interview the way it does?

ghgfhgfhn 10y ago
I think he means: The Google culture is built around cerebral competition. The drive to dominate ones peers, possessed by many technical types, is used to create a fiercely competitive atmosphere. This competition is used to drive productivity. The trouble with this is that it is difficult to measure code quality but easy to measure how quickly the code is produced. Thus within highly competitive environments code tends to be produced as quickly as possible, rather than as well as possible. Of course this is debatable and if true, is only a tendency...
ForHackernews 10y ago
A "dead" (or shadowbanned?) user replied to you: << ghgfhgfhn 26 minutes ago [dead] [-] I think he means: The Google culture is built around cerebral competition. The drive to dominate ones peers, possessed by many technical types, is used to create a fiercely competitive atmosphere. This competition is used to drive productivity. The trouble with this is that it is difficult to measure code quality but easy to measure how quickly the code is produced. Thus within highly competitive environments code tends to be produced as quickly as possible, rather than as well as possible. Of course this is debatable and if true, is only a tendency...>>
- sctb 10y ago
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  - ForHackernews 10y ago
    What are "vouching privileges" and how might one vouch for it?
    - sctb 10y ago
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      - ForHackernews 10y ago
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ghgfhgfhn 10y ago

I think he means: The Google culture is built around cerebral competition. The drive to dominate ones peers, possessed by many technical types, is used to create a fiercely competitive atmosphere. This competition is used to drive productivity. The trouble with this is that it is difficult to measure code quality but easy to measure how quickly the code is produced. Thus within highly competitive environments code tends to be produced as quickly as possible, rather than as well as possible. Of course this is debatable and if true, is only a tendency...

ForHackernews 10y ago

A "dead" (or shadowbanned?) user replied to you: << ghgfhgfhn 26 minutes ago [dead] [-] I think he means: The Google culture is built around cerebral competition. The drive to dominate ones peers, possessed by many technical types, is used to create a fiercely competitive atmosphere. This competition is used to drive productivity. The trouble with this is that it is difficult to measure code quality but easy to measure how quickly the code is produced. Thus within highly competitive environments code tends to be produced as quickly as possible, rather than as well as possible. Of course this is debatable and if true, is only a tendency...>>

sctb 10y ago
If a dead comment appears in a thread, users with vouching privileges and 'showdead' turned on in their profile can vouch for it to make it visible if they believe it to be substantive. Please do this instead of reposting.
- ForHackernews 10y ago
  What are "vouching privileges" and how might one vouch for it?
  - sctb 10y ago
    At least 31 karma are required, and a link that says 'vouch' will appear on a dead post.
    - ForHackernews 10y ago
      Huh. I have about 7k karma, and I don't think I've ever seen that link. Is it a new feature?
    - deleted 10y ago
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