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Re:Google's interview system: it's not about solving the pro... by nness on Monday November 05, 2018 @06:45AM (#18381554)
I'm going to provide no justification; but just say that that sounds very "drink the cool-aid."

If you have such a high hiring bar — and you still get a sexist memo, or vocalised hate-crimes on your platform, or salary suppression, or workers being disallowed from using the bathrooms, or 20,000 employees staging a walk-out because of bonuses awarded to perpetrators of sexual assault... Maybe your a hiring bar is lower than it should be.

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Re:Google's interview system: it's not about solving the pro... by aiisjustanif on Monday November 05, 2018 @08:33AM (#18382161)
People that get pissed at that memo shock me. I get everything else today, but still to this day, he only presented what was observable at the time.
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Re:Google's interview system: it's not about solving the pro... by umanwizard on Monday November 05, 2018 @08:15AM (#18382037)
As far as I can tell, everything you just mentioned is totally orthogonal to coding/algorithms intelligence, so it’s not clear what point you’re making.
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Re:Google's interview system: it's not about solving the pro... by sahil-kang on Monday November 05, 2018 @08:52AM (#18382276)
GP seems like it’s venting or speculating rather than trying to make a point; the post starts off with “I’m going to provide no justification.”
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