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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 WillPostForFood on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:49PM (#12702106)
I'm amazed people actually believe the account is accurate. The guy failed the interview, and goes to write a blog post to lash out at google (and try to mess up future interviews for them), So of course he write it to make him look good, and the questioner bad.

We will stop here because it's obvious that you don't have the necessary skills to write or review network applications. You should learn the Linux function calls, how the TCP/IP stack works, and what big-O means to eventually qualify if you are interviewed at a later time.

Come on Hacker News, I know you hate recruiters, but do you really think that happened?

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by rockdoe on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:41PM (#12703021)
It's true this is probably not exactly what happened, but Google does certainly ask these questions in phone screens and the interviewers read the correct response off of a cheatsheet.

The fact that several Google people posting here literally can't believe this is true shows how fucked up their process is.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by WillPostForFood on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:27PM (#12704189)
The fact that several Google people posting here literally can't believe this is true also may mean it isn't true. Not that the questions weren't asked by a recruiter with a cheat sheet, but the quality of response and the attitude of the recruiter has been grossly exaggerated.
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