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Why does "Many Googlers use his software internally and externally" mean he would be a good hire for Google? From all his public complaining about failing an i

Why does "Many Googlers use his software internally and externally" mean he would be a good hire for Google? From all his public complaining about failing an interview it seems Google did the right thing not hiring him, he has a massive ego and it's very possible that "writing homebrew" is less useful to google than "inverting a binary tree"

sevagh 2y ago
It means that he created a tool, with his skills and capabilities, that is a force multiplier for other Google engineers. This is a straight up undeniable example that his capabilities _already_ brought value to Google and their stacked deck of genius non-egostical binary tree inverters. There's not a more pragmatic measure of whether somebody can code than a track record of a successful code project used by other coders.
s_dev 2y ago
Here's another way of phrasing it -- if Linus Torvalds went for an interview with Google would he have to invert a binary tree and if he failed to do so (maybe he misconstrues the question and messes up or him being Linus and just refusing) would that be a good reason to reject him? Linus also can be equally or far more egotistical than Max Howell.
- shawabawa3 2y ago
  I find the idea that just because someone is an excellent software engineer they are therefore guaranteed to be a good fit for a particular role at Google a bit weird I'd say that if Linus applied to be a software engineer at Google they should be prepared to invert binary trees or do $generic_leetcode type things because that's the expectation for that role If they applied to be Google Fellow or some other lofty position then I wouldn't expect them to need to do any coding at all in the interview
  - s_dev 2y ago
    >If they applied to be Google Fellow or some other lofty position then I wouldn't expect them to need to do any coding at all in the interview So the higher the role in Google the less the requirements?
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sevagh 2y ago

It means that he created a tool, with his skills and capabilities, that is a force multiplier for other Google engineers. This is a straight up undeniable example that his capabilities _already_ brought value to Google and their stacked deck of genius non-egostical binary tree inverters. There's not a more pragmatic measure of whether somebody can code than a track record of a successful code project used by other coders.

s_dev 2y ago

Here's another way of phrasing it -- if Linus Torvalds went for an interview with Google would he have to invert a binary tree and if he failed to do so (maybe he misconstrues the question and messes up or him being Linus and just refusing) would that be a good reason to reject him? Linus also can be equally or far more egotistical than Max Howell.

shawabawa3 2y ago
I find the idea that just because someone is an excellent software engineer they are therefore guaranteed to be a good fit for a particular role at Google a bit weird I'd say that if Linus applied to be a software engineer at Google they should be prepared to invert binary trees or do $generic_leetcode type things because that's the expectation for that role If they applied to be Google Fellow or some other lofty position then I wouldn't expect them to need to do any coding at all in the interview
- s_dev 2y ago
  >If they applied to be Google Fellow or some other lofty position then I wouldn't expect them to need to do any coding at all in the interview So the higher the role in Google the less the requirements?
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