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To be fair, the "nickel in a blender" type of problems have been actively banned from engineering interview at Google for many years. That doesn't mean that the
by mvgoogler 15y ago
To be fair, the "nickel in a blender" type of problems have been actively banned from engineering interview at Google for many years. That doesn't mean that there aren't a few holdouts that still use them, but there is an active effort to eliminate them.
I sit on an engineering hiring committee and I can't really think of the last time I saw one of the ridiculous puzzle questions show up in an engineering interview. The WSJ article was pretty ridiculous.
- jroseattle 15y agoWasn't implying these to be solely a Google issue, but rather something that a material number of firms in the tech industry like to follow in interviewing. Sorry, but I'm not familiar with the WSJ article you've referenced. Link?