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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016) by Voloskaya on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:44AM (#16932898)
> The response to an answer should be "OK" and then you note down the answer and show your notes to an engineer at the end.

This kinds of defeat the purpose of the screening interview though doesn't it? The point is to not disturb an engineer when 99% of the people that are being screened are unqualified.

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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016) by tomhallett on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:08PM (#16933142)
Not entirely: the answers written down by the recuiters can be reviewed in batch, while the phone screen has a lot more overhead.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016) by fjsolwmv on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:53AM (#16932990)
If your engineering managers can't be disturbed than maybe you don't have time to hire.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016) by Voloskaya on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:03PM (#16933097)
To be fair we are talking about Google, not the local shop at the corner of the streets. Each recruiter must do tens of screening a day, and they have tens of recruiters assigned to each department, we are not talking about reviewing 2 applications a day during coffee break.
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