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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by simonebrunozzi on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:57AM (#25079367)
This is equally interesting (or equally bad):

"Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off" [0]

More details two years later here [1].

[0]: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...

Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by arc0 on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:29AM (#25080626)
No it's not, the creator of Homebrew has nowhere near the clout of Van Rossum or Thompson. I don't think it's a big enough or technically complex enough project that its author should expect to skip the standard interview procedure, whereas the creators of Python and C absolutely should.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by w0m on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:30AM (#25082491)
to be fair; it sounds like he didn't get the job due lack of interpersonal skills; not for lack of programming skills.