Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by rockdoe on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:28PM
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You should be ashamed then, because these are definitely the questions used on SRE phone screens.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by user5994461 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:50PM
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The questions are fine for SRE. The problem is the behaviour and the expectations of the interviewer.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by rockdoe on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:06PM
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The people doing these interviews are non-technical people who read off of a cheatsheet. The cheatsheet covers alternative answers, but a situation like the OP describes can never end well.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by mfukar on Friday October 14, 2016 @11:01AM
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If that's true, making non-technical people conduct technical interviews is also a pretty big failure.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by kajecounterhack on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:37PM
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Thanks, I am realizing now that it was SRE. All I can say is I'm definitely a fan of how we interview SWEs and I'm sorta bummed this is how SRE interviews go. TIL.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by zwischenzug on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:19PM
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I got these questions when being interviewed for SWE and SRE. My answers suggested to the interviewer that I should go down the SRE route. I passed in the end, because I felt the culture regarded everything as a technical problem (which has worked out for them so far) and Google was a company where you did things their way, and don't rock the boat.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by bogomipz on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:11PM
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Are SWE and SRE interview the same? I thought they were different enough job descriptions that it would require different interview questions.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by kajecounterhack on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:25AM
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They are different, but a lot of the skills are similar. SREs need to problem solve and while they may need to have more domain-specific knowledge I'm not sure a facts quiz administered by someone non-technical is the best way to do that.
If you interview frequently, at least for SWE, this is certainly not how we go about things. ghire guidelines for SWE don't allow for questions like this, or behavior like this.
Is it possible this was an SRE interview? I guess, but it really sounds ungoogly and these questions sound like they don't give great signal. I'd be ashamed if this is how we hire SREs.
Is there really an "avalanche" of reports like this? Most negative reports I hear have to do with our SWE questions which tend to be difficult.