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> But I agree that Google is different than most companies. There the main thing is ads and search and infrastructure to run both of those. One of the Marques
by nowherebeen 4y ago
> But I agree that Google is different than most companies. There the main thing is ads and search and infrastructure to run both of those.
One of the Marques Brownlee videos mentions that when he met Eric Schmidt, Schmidt mentions that every problem Google have were scaling. If you look at it from his perspective, it would make a lot of sense why algo is so important for Google interviews. He applied it not only in tech, but with hiring as well.
- lapcat 4y ago"CEO Eric Eric Schmidt stood out because he 'was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man.'" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#cite_note-31 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#cite_note-31 Funny how the "objective tests" that leaders apply to grunts never get applied to the leaders themselves.
- nowherebeen 4y agoIt's the whole "Do as I say, not as I do" motto. In their eyes, you are workers, and they are employers, so these objective tests don't apply to them. They hire based on their need and not your wants. They don't need another Eric Schmidt, they need more lemmings to do lemmings work. Ultimately, that's how I think these companies eventually mature. The people that know how to steer the cargo ship retires and you are left with workers that only know how to do the work assigned. Bureaucracy ensues and no one dares to steer for fear it would sink it or get fired for causing unneeded risk. And plus, they don't know how to.