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I live in NYC and most of the Googlers I meet are from the Midwest or East Coast. It sounds to me like you happened to end up with an idiotic interviewer. I wou
by whack 10y ago
I live in NYC and most of the Googlers I meet are from the Midwest or East Coast. It sounds to me like you happened to end up with an idiotic interviewer. I would personally chalk that up to bad luck more so than company culture.
- ianlevesque 10y agoYeah, I'm not a Googler but the only one I know had no formal CS education and wore a full suit to his interview. Just study algorithms like mad and go for it if it's what you want. Technical merit will get you in.
- justinhj 10y agoWhen a company selects someone to interview a candidate they're also choosing that person to represent and sell the company. If that person turns out to be rude and condescending then I chalk that up to more than bad luck.
- walshemj 10y agoDoesn't Google train its interviewers I worked for a large company and before you could interview anyone there was a 2/3day course you had to pass.
- kmicklas 10y agoIn my experience Google NYC attracts a lot of people who are very cynical about the stereotypical bay area tech culture. I get the impression there is a lot less cool-aid being drunk here but then again I've never lived in the bay so I can't really compare.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> In my experience Google NYC attracts a lot of people who are very cynical about the stereotypical bay area tech culture. I get the impression there is a lot less cool-aid being drunk here but then again I've never lived in the bay so I can't really compare. Maybe its just a different flavor of Kool-Aid. Cynicism about X is often as much of an irrational orthodoxy as X is.