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Google recruiters tell candidates to buy this book to pass the interview. It drives the interviewers crazy. Clearly there is some friction between interviewers

• serge2k 10y ago
  One set wants to get people hired, the other wants to prove how smart they are by rejecting as many as possible?
  • gwbas1c 10y ago
    It's very hard to evaluate a candidate if they know the answer(s) coming in.
    • vonmoltke 10y ago
      Which is why you shouldn't be asking questions that have specific answers.
• Lewisham 10y ago
  Where did you get the idea it drives interviewers crazy? a) I shouldn't ask questions that are in that book, any question found in the wild is banned. b) I want my candidates to study and show me the best of themselves, and that they want the job and are not wasting my time by throwing their resume on the pile as an afterthought. c) Cracking the Code Interview is really good at helping you through the algorithmic questions popular on whiteboards. I find the signal:noise ratio on those questions pretty poor, so I ask more straightforward questions that more closely represent things a software engineer encounters in their everyday life. CtCI is good for getting you up to snuff at the stuff you don't do all the time (if ever) just in case you get That Interviewer. Admittedly, I am but one interviewer and there are many others who do many things many different ways, but I've never heard anyone denounce candidates studying.
• gaylemcd 10y ago
  Yeah... Where did you get the idea that it drives the interviewers crazy? While I'm sure there are interviewers who are opposed to preparation, mostly interviewers support this.