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I guess I dont think anyone has EVER earned the right to have an "inflated self opinion". Acting like a jerk, being entitled and demanding things are never som

I guess I dont think anyone has EVER earned the right to have an "inflated self opinion". Acting like a jerk, being entitled and demanding things are never something earns. That's just not ok behavior. I talk to people about interview stuff, I notice that most people who say "I shouldn't have to know X" seem to be the least intellectually curious, least great problem solvers and just generally combative folks. If you are going into an interview with a serious chip on your shoulder, demanding a job, asking to exempt yourself from having to show problem solving skills, then just how is that going to work out? Regarding reversing a binary tree, yeah, the interviewer didn't expect you to know it. That's the point. It's something that's a little tricky, not impossible, requires you to be precise about memory ownership and pointers, and algorithmic. It takes no time at all to describe, and isn't impossible to solve. Yeah it's problem solving, but it's not random trivia. It's a functional test of your intelligence and yeah it filters out some who should be at Google, and they know it. However relaxing the bar is fraught with peril. You're quite literally banking the future of the company on it.

gcp 10y ago
You shouldn't have an inflated self opinion. (Duh!) But those were the words used to describe mxcl just because he opinionated that Google ought to have given him a more serious consideration given the software he had already produced. It's my opinion that wasn't an unreasonable assessment (from mxcl). Although if indeed nearly nobody at Google uses Homebrew, as now multiple people are claiming, it was, no matter how reasonable, wrong.
- ryanobjc 10y ago
  So here's the thing.. he was given the STANDARD interview that every engineer has to pass. How was that not a serious consideration? How is it fair to his future potential colleagues that he got in "easy"? They need to depend on him and his problem solving abilities. I think he saw the question, and basically just refused to grapple with it, thinking it was below him, and then the rest pretty much was inevitable.
  - gcp 10y ago
    It would be unfair if there was no reason to believe Google's interview process is flawless. But it isn't. The rest of your post is speculation.

gcp 10y ago

You shouldn't have an inflated self opinion. (Duh!) But those were the words used to describe mxcl just because he opinionated that Google ought to have given him a more serious consideration given the software he had already produced. It's my opinion that wasn't an unreasonable assessment (from mxcl). Although if indeed nearly nobody at Google uses Homebrew, as now multiple people are claiming, it was, no matter how reasonable, wrong.

ryanobjc 10y ago
So here's the thing.. he was given the STANDARD interview that every engineer has to pass. How was that not a serious consideration? How is it fair to his future potential colleagues that he got in "easy"? They need to depend on him and his problem solving abilities. I think he saw the question, and basically just refused to grapple with it, thinking it was below him, and then the rest pretty much was inevitable.
- gcp 10y ago
  It would be unfair if there was no reason to believe Google's interview process is flawless. But it isn't. The rest of your post is speculation.