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I turned down an offer to work at the Googleplex last year because there was a very creepy groupthink/hivemind atmosphere when I did my round of 6+ interviews t
by fapjacks 11y ago
I turned down an offer to work at the Googleplex last year because there was a very creepy groupthink/hivemind atmosphere when I did my round of 6+ interviews there. Also combined with my favorite question to ask interviewers: "If you could make one change and it wouldn't be vetoed, what change would you make?" And every one of my interviewers said some variation of "I wish my work challenged me" with one guy very poignantly saying it as "All the low-hanging fruit has been solved, and only certain engineers get to work on the really tough problems" and then I couldn't wait to get the fuck outta there.