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What were the responses by Google to those three questions?

• Diederich 7y ago
  Of course, Google didn't answer my questions, people who were working at Google at the time did. (: As to the specific responses, I'd have to check my old notes, which I don't have handy at the moment. For "tier 1" companies, such as Google, common responses to "What brought you here" and "Why do you stay" are excellent comp, being able to work with many very talented people, and the ability to move around in the org. I've found the "what keeps you up at night" question has the most diverse responses. In general, I've been pretty surprised at the amount of apparent honesty I get. It's hard to verify the responses, of course, but any time I get a response that's not completely positive or 'canned' in some way, it seems pretty legit.
  • arikr 7y ago
    > I've found the "what keeps you up at night" question has the most diverse responses. > In general, I've been pretty surprised at the amount of apparent honesty I get. It's hard to verify the responses, of course, but any time I get a response that's not completely positive or 'canned' in some way, it seems pretty legit. Could you please give a few high-level examples?
    • drewmol 7y ago
      What keeps you up at night? Reading commentary on the HN links I read during the day
    • Diederich 7y ago
      In one of the better examples, someone at a very large tech company told me that one of their major data pipelines had effectively no monitoring in it while it ran, and it took many hours to complete. The monitoring before and after the pipeline was excellent, but they had no visibility while it was running. He said there were cases where the pipeline had effectively failed early, but continued to run throughout most of the normal run period. If they had some in-pipeline monitoring, they could have intervened earlier and helped it succeed.