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"Aside from being terrible at communication, Google implicitly rejected, without appeal, someone with offers for a PhD and someone who owns two checks from Knut
by AznHisoka 13y ago
"Aside from being terrible at communication, Google implicitly rejected, without appeal, someone with offers for a PhD and someone who owns two checks from Knuth. "
I'm glad that Google doesn't just blindly look at credentials alone. If you got a PhD, and got featured in a CS publication, but couldn't answer their questions, then you probably shouldn't be accepted. That said, OP just had bad bad luck. My phone screen question was FAR easier (I still messed up on it, and got to the on-site too).
Disclaimer: I went to a Google interview last week (got rejected)
- reikonomusha 13y agoOf course, history, credentials, and current technical know-how should be balanced.
- jbooth 13y agoIt sounded like he aced all of the questions except for the distributed computing ones, where he put up some reasonable answers but not the exact ones they're looking for. I'd note that when Google was first solving those problems, their luminaries who are now untouchable at the company probably tried those exact same reasonable answers at first until iterating on them into their current form.