The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews

Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by lomnakkus on Sunday April 09, 2017 @06:11PM (#14074612)

Then they should probably ask people to estimate a thing that's even remotely relevant to the job.

(I mean, I get it, this kind of general estimation and/or ball-parking can be incredibly valuable, but this doesn't sound relevant in any way.)

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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by kafkaesq on Sunday April 09, 2017 @06:53PM (#14074763)

This kind of general estimation and/or ball-parking can be incredibly valuable, but this doesn't sound relevant in any way.

To be fair to Google (in regard to this one filter question only), they actually are up front about expecting a significantly higher baseline of general mathematical awareness (even for non-mathy roles) than most other shops. At any rate, this kind of estimation comes up in capacity planning (both in architecture planning, and for algorithms on a single box) all the time. Which after all is what Google does, at nearly every level of their stack, (nearly) all the time.

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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by lomnakkus on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:29PM (#14103348)

It "comes up all the time"... and these ballpark guesses are probably(!) completely useless for anything remotely practical. At the scale Google's operating you want a Statistician, not a Guesstimator.

So, no, still not useful questions.

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