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Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by biztos on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:32PM (#17961699)
> brainteasers (which, for the record, are not used at Google)

Out of curiosity, how is this controlled?

Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by jfasi on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:50PM (#17962268)
Interviewers write up questions asked, candidate solutions, and their commentary and hiring recommendation. Those writeups are sent to a hiring committee which reviews all the candidate's feedback and makes a hire/no hire recommendation.

If the committee sees a brainteasers, disagrees with a question, spots inconsistencies in the feedback, etc., they moderate their use of the feedback or ignore it altogether. There's also a mechanism to send feedback to the interviewer, which they can use to let them know a question is appropriate, banned due to having leaked, etc.

Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu... by biztos on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:18PM (#17962452)
Thanks, that's interesting. It must be a little bizarre doing interviews in a place where lots of candidates specifically prepare for your interview process, and some presumably try to game it.