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Out of curiosity, which kind of position within Google were you applying for? And how did you sell your own expertise? This sounds like a really bizarre and ve
by the_af 5y ago
Out of curiosity, which kind of position within Google were you applying for? And how did you sell your own expertise?
This sounds like a really bizarre and very specific question for the interviewer to fixate on, unless it was particularly relevant for the position. Knowing the details of how to best do the redirect doesn't seem relevant for a generalist interview; this is the kind of thing you end up, well, googling when you need to do it. I suppose a kernel developer is supposed to know this though, were you applying for kernel development?
- dolni 5y agoIt was an SRE position. My technical experience has always been fairly general but largely infrastructure-focused and I had a computer science BS when I interviewed. C only came up because I was asked to provide a list of languages I knew, and rate on a scale of 1 to 10 how well I knew them. At the time when I interviewed, I said I knew a little C (I had used it in a bunch of my CSCI coursework and some small personal projects). So yes, it was an absolutely stupid thing to focus on.