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Re:Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become... by daveFNbuck on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:22PM (#12653731)
Again, it sounds like your skills lie mostly in product management rather than software engineering. While you have a valuable skillset, it's not what Google needs from a software engineer. You're good at a different job.
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Re:Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become... by theli0nheart on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:26PM (#12653754)
TIL I'm not a software engineer. Who knew!

> While you have a valuable skillset, it's not what Google needs from a software engineer. You're good at a different job.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12653628. Far more "software engineers" at Google do the exact same thing that I do all day long than do the type of work you're referring to.

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Re:Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become... by daveFNbuck on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:06PM (#12654089)
If you're not a software engineer, why bring up your accomplishments as evidence that Google should hire you as one?

I'm pretty sure that the people who Google hires to do Javascript/HTML/CSS do not normally go through this type of interview.

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Re:Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become... by theli0nheart on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:17PM (#12654202)
> If you're not a software engineer, why bring up your accomplishments as evidence that Google should hire you as one?

I'm confused by this statement. What do you mean?

> I'm pretty sure that the people who Google hires to do Javascript/HTML/CSS do not normally go through this type of interview.

Completely false.

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