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The Google-style interview (not just Google but big tech in general) selects for a very specific kind of tactical narrow-focus intelligence. Thinking big pictur
by n8cpdx 4y ago
The Google-style interview (not just Google but big tech in general) selects for a very specific kind of tactical narrow-focus intelligence. Thinking big picture or strategically doesn’t come up at all in an algorithms interview. And thinking big picture really is a detriment to succeeding in a leetcode grind unless the only picture you’re looking at is total comp.
The type of person who works at Google probably isn’t well equipped to make good products, even if they’re great at writing software.
- throwaway821909 4y agoSurely devs have very limited influence over this? I can't imagine everyone else also does leetcode?
- phist_mcgee 4y agoDevs become managers, ever met a manager who seemed to not want to be there, but somehow was in charge? Same thing happens at google and perhaps has an ever bigger impact compared to at other companies based on the scale of the projects they work on.
- UncleMeat 4y agoI believe that eng managers are also not the ones making this call.