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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by mlthoughts2018 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:29AM (#18449344)
Were you even given substantial time to ask the interviewers questions? In most interviews I’ve done, even later round interviews whether it’s a finance company, start-up, FAANG, and companies of all sorts in between, I was given at most 5 minutes to ask questions after some dumb shit whiteboard algo trivia.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by oraguy on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:49AM (#18449436)
I was given 5 minutes to ask questions after each round of interview. That part was ordinary too. That's what most of the other companies do (FAANG or otherwise).
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by sodafountan on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:33PM (#18451746)
The real risk is for people who are too young to know what to ask
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by numpty13 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @07:17AM (#18458630)
I'd hope they wouldn't even consider somebody for this sort of job who's too young to know what to ask.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by Latteland on Thursday November 15, 2018 @06:15PM (#18464397)
That's kind of naive, of course you want young people who will work hard and maybe not know what they are getting in to. I was offered a job at oracle back in the day, I would have felt a lot of despair if this is what it was.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by rumpelbums on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:18PM (#18462306)
I am not sure what position you were interviewing for and to what level of interview you made it.

When I was interviewing for an SRE position with Google in Dublin, I had about 10min to ask questions in each of the 5 interviews that were conducted on-site.

In between the interviews, a sixth SRE would take me to lunch for about an hour. Anything discussed with him wouldn't be evaluated as part of the interview.

So there was plenty of time for questions, I would say.

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