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Google keeps proving itself as a king of hyping. Their employees periodically make sound statement regarding to winning programming competitions as not being a

Google keeps proving itself as a king of hyping. Their employees periodically make sound statement regarding to winning programming competitions as not being a good indication of effective employees but they only consider hiring those who can crack programming competition questions during their short interview session. Good for you if you want to judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree.

sukilot 12y ago
Google interviews are quite different from programming contests. In a programming contest, there is little time to think or talk, success is about instantly pattern matching problem to solution , copy pasting library Code, and pounding out a solution. Interviews are 30min of discussion and 20 lines of code.