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My guess is the vast majority of the talent Google has gotten through acquisitions would have failed miserably going through Google's traditional hiring process
by gruseom 15y ago
My guess is the vast majority of the talent Google has gotten through acquisitions would have failed miserably going through Google's traditional hiring process.
That's a very good point that I've not seen made so well before.
- kyt 15y agoI've heard that Larry Page could not pass the Google interview today.
- jrockway 15y agoThis is probably a lie. The Google interview is not particularly hard. It might be hard if you absolutely refuse to ever let your eyes look at anything that could possibly be considered an "algorithms book", but otherwise... it's stuff that you will know if you care about computer programming at all. The questions are about applying big concepts, not implementation details of particular algorithms. (I couldn't write A* from memory, but I do know what an "admissible heuristic" is. And that's good enough to be hired by Google.)
- bconway 15y agoThe variant (and converse?) I prefer (though not mine): After so many failed Google interviews, I found it easier to build a company and sell it to them, instead.