> I'm curious your target have access to Google.com during your "interview"? I think it would have been a good idea for Google to publish online an official "G

> I'm curious your target have access to Google.com during your "interview"? I think it would have been a good idea for Google to publish online an official "Google interview cheat sheet" and hand a copy to the interviewee at the start of the interview. However, if the candidates know beforehand that the web will be available, they're going to study less; it's just human nature. If they have 20 minutes for a question, and they have to use the web to recall the basis for the question, they're probably going to waste 5 minutes compared to someone who has taken the time to study. > If your canned intelligence test questions gave been recorded and indexed aren't you going to feel a little silly? They weren't intelligence questions. Many of brilliant people would have failed miserably and many of people with IQs lower than the Google median would do very well. Many of the questions I asked were simplified versions of problems I saw and fixed in Google's codebase. I wanted to make sure that people who got hired were capable of diagnosing and fixing the real kinds of problems I had seen. Edit: spelling mistake, added "it's just human nature".