Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by klodolph on Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:35PM
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I don't think that's what happened. The questions look too familiar to me, and I've been through the SRE-SWE interview process which is what the top-level comment talks about.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by brazzledazzle on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:41PM
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Maybe it's the whole "better to have false negatives than false positives" philosophy Google espouses?
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by ocdtrekkie on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:13PM
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The problem is, once you have a crud ton of false negatives, people stop wanting to apply to work for you, especially when you get excluded via junk like this. And every false negative that posts about it online... well, this post is at +1363 right now?
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
by klodolph on Thursday October 13, 2016 @09:17PM
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That's part of it, but the other part is what you mentioned earlier--leads, quotas, conversions, and don't forget diversity initiatives, inexperienced recruiters, and the fact that the first part of the funnel has to be dirt cheap to work at scale.
For what it's worth, lots of other companies seem to use almost the exact same process.