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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 teraflop on Thursday October 13, 2016 @06:57PM (#12704848)
That's a preposterous attitude. Just imagine if we took a similar approach to hiring for other kinds of jobs:

"OK, so you'd like to work here as a mechanic. What's the difference between automatic and manual transmission?"

"It's not fair to expect me to know that off the top of my head. If I need to know, I'll just do a Google search."

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by jedmeyers on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:57AM (#12706679)
"OK, so you'd like to work here as a mechanic. What's the difference between automatic and manual transmission?"

Nope, more like "can you write out on the board what types of connectors are used in the car cooling system and in what order".

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by dsfyu404ed on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:30PM (#12705784)
That's a crap comparison.

You're gonna have a hard time drawing a comparison between a line of work where you build things and one where you fix things.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by seanp2k2 on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:48AM (#12706838)
Ok, how about "What is the firing order on a Chevy LS1?" ?
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