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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 user5994461 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @02:50PM (#12703093)
The questions are fine for SRE. The problem is the behaviour and the expectations of the interviewer.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by rockdoe on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:06PM (#12703200)
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.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by mfukar on Friday October 14, 2016 @11:01AM (#12708504)
If that's true, making non-technical people conduct technical interviews is also a pretty big failure.
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