Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become a Google engineer

Re:Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become... by iskonkul on Thursday October 06, 2016 @11:24AM (#12653254)

While we could debate on the meaningfulness of his goal, I find the person admirable. We could perhaps award more credit to the fact that this is a 44 year old person who is taking the difficult course of going through the material of CS on his own and then setting a clear goal to aim for. And of course not forgetting to celebrate his virtue of learning for life.

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Re:Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become... by yodsanklai on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:35PM (#12653822)

People complain about Google style of interviewing but I like the idea that you can at least prepare for them. I'm sure there are many companies that wouldn't even consider because you're too old or because you don't have the right background.

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Re:Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become... by stale2002 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:08PM (#12654101)

Yeah, I have a suspicion that this is the only reason why people still use it.

The signal that it is measuring is "How much did you prepare to get this job." Which isn't that bad of a signal.

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Re:Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become... by almata on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:01PM (#12653550)

Totally. Being 38 myself this is one of the things I've liked the most from this case.

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