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This is a five-year old article about something Google stopped doing in about 2010. But on the off chance you're 8 years behind the times, it turns out that th

This is a five-year old article about something Google stopped doing in about 2010. But on the off chance you're 8 years behind the times, it turns out that those infamous brainteasers were completely useless for hiring at Google.

theDoug 8y ago
Surfacing old news for Hacker News to build karma points is too-frequently a successful play. All you have to do is slap a (2010) and all gets forgiven.
- meritt 8y ago
  I don't think it's karma per-se, I think it's his marketing strategy. Take this very specific instance and we have: 1) OP submits 2-3 stories per day 2) OP comments far less frequently than his submission rate and those comments are almost never on his own submissions 3) OP's profile contains contact information for him as a B2B consultant and a link to his blog
- slededit 8y ago
  It's not like the information has gone bad in the meantime.
gxs 8y ago
You know, there are a lot of cool things I've learned that I wouldn't have learned if reposts were strictly controlled. I would even hypothesis that an ideal web community in the vein of reddit or HN is not completely void of reposts. There must be some ideal percentage that makes the site most useful/successful. Don't know where on the number line those figures land, but sharing something that crosses my mind when I see a repost. HN seems to have a decently low number, IMO.
kens 8y ago
I'm somewhat baffled by the article. I started at Google in 2004 and it wasn't using brainteasers like "A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune" or "Why are manhole covers round" even then. It was mostly challenging algorithm and programming problems. I think there's a lot of urban legend in these brainteaser questions.
- guyzero 8y ago
  I was interviewed in 2007 and I got an entire phone screen full of them. Thankfully I had gone through "How to Move Mt Fuji" and already knew all but one of the questions the interviewer gave me.
d0mine 8y ago
If you know something, even if you think everybody knows it, there are people who see it for the first time today https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/

theDoug 8y ago

Surfacing old news for Hacker News to build karma points is too-frequently a successful play. All you have to do is slap a (2010) and all gets forgiven.

meritt 8y ago
I don't think it's karma per-se, I think it's his marketing strategy. Take this very specific instance and we have: 1) OP submits 2-3 stories per day 2) OP comments far less frequently than his submission rate and those comments are almost never on his own submissions 3) OP's profile contains contact information for him as a B2B consultant and a link to his blog
slededit 8y ago
It's not like the information has gone bad in the meantime.

gxs 8y ago

You know, there are a lot of cool things I've learned that I wouldn't have learned if reposts were strictly controlled. I would even hypothesis that an ideal web community in the vein of reddit or HN is not completely void of reposts. There must be some ideal percentage that makes the site most useful/successful. Don't know where on the number line those figures land, but sharing something that crosses my mind when I see a repost. HN seems to have a decently low number, IMO.

kens 8y ago

I'm somewhat baffled by the article. I started at Google in 2004 and it wasn't using brainteasers like "A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune" or "Why are manhole covers round" even then. It was mostly challenging algorithm and programming problems. I think there's a lot of urban legend in these brainteaser questions.

guyzero 8y ago
I was interviewed in 2007 and I got an entire phone screen full of them. Thankfully I had gone through "How to Move Mt Fuji" and already knew all but one of the questions the interviewer gave me.

d0mine 8y ago

If you know something, even if you think everybody knows it, there are people who see it for the first time today https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/