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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by shmerl on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:50AM (#13696967)
You can't figure out if anyone can perform, by asking algorithms questions. That's rather a waste of time. Instead, they can be given a task to write some real code to solve a certain task, and of course not in 2 hours, but within a day let's say. And then evaluate the result. That can show how people perform. And not puzzle questions about problems that people were breaking their heads for years to crack.
Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by ng12 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:21PM (#13697329)
Those are not at all the questions asked. They don't ask you to prove A*, they ask you to filter a binary tree based on some predicate. It's much closer to real life than people on HN like to admit -- your coworker wrote some code using some datastructure and you have to figure it out and modify it.