> This is why I will never interview for Google or any other company that has multi-stage interviews and also employs time-wasteful, and sometimes esoteric, met

> This is why I will never interview for Google or any other company that has multi-stage interviews and also employs time-wasteful, and sometimes esoteric, methods such as "How many jelly beans fit in a school bus?" Good news: they don't do that any more. Bad news: you still need to practice the fermi estimation techniques that question employs, but also need to know like, the details of every paper they've published on distributed systems, and bring your own heuristics about computers and email in order to determine how big a GFS cluster you need to launch gmail. Is that better? I'm not so sure.