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I guess my question is to people who have passed these interview successfully, do you feel the interviews were actually representative, even broadly, of the kin
by ssully 7y ago
I guess my question is to people who have passed these interview successfully, do you feel the interviews were actually representative, even broadly, of the kind of work/skills you would need for your day to day job?
- prabhu7286 7y agoGoogle employee here. I was asked a very fun question about some memory management. Another one was a simple DP. There was a math question from the IMO I think, which I happened to know beforehand and told the interviewer. The design question was around a load balancer. To answer your question, I think some of the skills are useful like memory management when designing protocol buffers for your system. Or thinking about how my gslb config could possibly be messing up the load balancing, causing pages for our service etc. Overall I think, and this is my personal theory that as long as the question gives the candidate an opportunity to think on their feet given the know Computer Science, I would support the process.
- mav3rick 7y agoAll my rounds were highly relevant. I was asked to find a race condition in one of the interviews.
- solresol 7y agoI saw no relationship between anything I was asked during interviews and what I ended up working on beyond "they both involve software for a computer".