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I think you're both right. Change comes from above and reflects from below. "We hire the best" has become "we hire the best at passing a generic set of tests" b
by phendrenad2 4y ago
I think you're both right. Change comes from above and reflects from below. "We hire the best" has become "we hire the best at passing a generic set of tests" because they want hiring to be a thoughtless, automated process.
- xiphias2 4y agoI have been there and seen the destruction (all meetings were about political correctness, we weren't able to discuss anything that was really important). The best are / were there before they quit to create companies, like OpenAI because it was easier than changing management. Also I bet Sam Altman would be able to reverse a binary tree (it's a trivial recursion) even if he was never at Google: it's just part of being a professional programmer.
- phendrenad2 4y agoFAANG really only asks how to mirror a binary tree in interviews?
- bfrog 4y agono, its a joke because the creator of homebrew couldn't do it and didn't get the job at google, despite making something immensely useful. There's also this gem of how google wanted one of the creators of C to take a C test https://www.theregister.com/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_our_test/ https://www.theregister.com/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_our...