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A comment on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test. Parent comment

Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by smrtinsert on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:47PM (#12702087)
I get it, but do doctors really know what the size of mitochondria are? I can't think of anything any further from the realm of their day to day.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by dekhn on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:27PM (#12702466)
everybody who is a doctor aced intro to biology because they were premeds. That means they looked at plenty of cell bio pictures with mitochondria (properly scaled to the cell size).

Doctors know a ton of random crap tangentially related to their jobs that they were forced to memorize.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by pmiller2 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @01:15PM (#12702360)
Someone specialized in genetics or mitochondrial disease might. Otherwise, I'd guess probably not.
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