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Well firstly, Google's plan is not to hire people who are well-prepared, it's to hire people who are smart and familiar with working day to day with the concept
by Traster 8y ago
Well firstly, Google's plan is not to hire people who are well-prepared, it's to hire people who are smart and familiar with working day to day with the concepts that are used in Google's interviews. If a significant number of people spent months prepping for the interview Google would have a serious problem with their interview process - unable to find the truly talented engineers amongst the naturally gifted.
But secondly, if months of prep is required to work at Google what you're saying is they're selecting for young people, rich people, male people - ie, all the people that can afford to be spending their spare time on interview preparation as well as holding down a day job. Go explain to a mother of 2 that the reason she can't get a job at Google is because she can't spend her evenings and weekends on hacker rank despite a job at Google never really requiring work at evenings and weekends.
- xiphias2 8y agoWhat you say may be true, but there's a loophole for women that Google does specifically: at least in the Zurich office interns are 90% female. Also Google made a new category, called step interns (interns who are in the first years in university). They generally just need to be young, have good reviews, and this way they just need to get through 1 interview when they are converting to full time engineers. As for old people: don't even try, Google has a huge age bias.