There are a lot more bad candidates than great ones, time is limited so it's usually more important to be able to weed out the bad ones fast. Max gets brought

There are a lot more bad candidates than great ones, time is limited so it's usually more important to be able to weed out the bad ones fast. Max gets brought up in these discussions a lot, but honestly I think the no hire was a good decision from what I know. Homebrew was a triumph of product design more than technical prowess, I suspect Google might have hired him as a product manager. Max was by his own admission was not a great programmer[0] but interviewed solely for a software role. I don't have a CS degree either, but I wouldn't hire someone to work google scale software if they couldn't invert a binary tree. https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejecting-Max-Howell-the-author-of-Homebrew-for-not-being-able-to-invert-a-binary-tree https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...