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> They'd be internal to recruiting I managed to find them and I don't work in recruiting, they are for SRE pre-screens. The guy misunderstood most of the quest

by Klockan 10y ago

> They'd be internal to recruiting I managed to find them and I don't work in recruiting, they are for SRE pre-screens. The guy misunderstood most of the questions which is why he failed and then worded them incorrectly on his blog, it wasn't the fault of the questions or the interviewer.

ZoFreX 10y ago
That's a big claim. Can you share some of the actual wording of the questions?
- Klockan 10y ago
  If you work at Google you can find them by searching for it.
  - dgacmu 10y ago
    Maybe not such a good idea to post an internal link? :)
muse900 10y ago
The recruiter misunderstood the answers and or he is not qualified to ask those questions. Usually when you ask someone something that is not literal as in "what is 1+1?" You can't expect them to be literal. Questions like: Why Quicksort is the best sorting method? Guy gave very good answer showing that he has perspective and he is able to make a valid argument. The recruiter on the other hand just read the paper and completely disregarded the fact that the person he is trying to recruit is a valid candidate. Also at the end the recruiters attitude aweful. Like what is that, he was reading answers from a paper, couldn't make valid arguments back to the candidate and at the end turns and says to the candidate "sorry my paper says you don't know this and that, and goodbye?"
- Klockan 10y ago
  No, I meant that the interviewee misunderstood the questions/answers given by the recruiter and thus misrepresented them when he wrote the blogpost. Since he couldn't even get the questions right I highly doubt that he gave a correct representation of the recruiters attitude as well.
  - silentmars 10y ago
    Which of the following seems more likely? A recruiter who was already giving the guy the wrong interview, and whose job revolves essentially around HR and sales, made mistakes in asking a series of technical questions. An expert with decades of relevant technical experience misunderstands and confuses basic networking and system topics.
    - Klockan 10y ago
      Which of the following seems more likely? A person fails to read a question verbatim. A person who has been the "smartest person in the room" for decades has an inflated view of his fluency on a topic and makes mistakes in his favor when he tries to reconstruct the questions from memory.
plandis 10y ago
Do you have proof of this?

by Klockan 10y ago

ZoFreX 10y ago

That's a big claim. Can you share some of the actual wording of the questions?

Klockan 10y ago
If you work at Google you can find them by searching for it.
- dgacmu 10y ago
  Maybe not such a good idea to post an internal link? :)

muse900 10y ago

The recruiter misunderstood the answers and or he is not qualified to ask those questions. Usually when you ask someone something that is not literal as in "what is 1+1?" You can't expect them to be literal. Questions like: Why Quicksort is the best sorting method? Guy gave very good answer showing that he has perspective and he is able to make a valid argument. The recruiter on the other hand just read the paper and completely disregarded the fact that the person he is trying to recruit is a valid candidate. Also at the end the recruiters attitude aweful. Like what is that, he was reading answers from a paper, couldn't make valid arguments back to the candidate and at the end turns and says to the candidate "sorry my paper says you don't know this and that, and goodbye?"

Klockan 10y ago
No, I meant that the interviewee misunderstood the questions/answers given by the recruiter and thus misrepresented them when he wrote the blogpost. Since he couldn't even get the questions right I highly doubt that he gave a correct representation of the recruiters attitude as well.
- silentmars 10y ago
  Which of the following seems more likely? A recruiter who was already giving the guy the wrong interview, and whose job revolves essentially around HR and sales, made mistakes in asking a series of technical questions. An expert with decades of relevant technical experience misunderstands and confuses basic networking and system topics.
  - Klockan 10y ago
    Which of the following seems more likely? A person fails to read a question verbatim. A person who has been the "smartest person in the room" for decades has an inflated view of his fluency on a topic and makes mistakes in his favor when he tries to reconstruct the questions from memory.

plandis 10y ago

Do you have proof of this?