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Re:Code Interviews by yongjik on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:49PM (#28436737)
The tweet comes up every so often, but it has two problems:

(1) Most of Google's engineers didn't even know Homebrew - it just wasn't something Google used on its notebooks.

(2) There's no such thing as "inverting a binary tree." At least I haven't heard about it anywhere else.

Maybe Google's interview process is broken, but the tweet isn't really explaining much. It's just a nice soundbite.

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Re:Code Interviews by dimmke on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @08:56AM (#28444138)
Reversing a binary tree is a real question that gets asked in interviews: https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/

It’s actually pretty easy if you’re comfortable with recursion and traversing trees. The tree questions Google asks in its interviews are usually much harder- it implies they were giving softball questions to him.

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Re:Code Interviews by pseudalopex on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:44PM (#28437217)
Knowing Homebrew could have given them reasons not to hire him. He made bad engineering decisions and brushed off feedback. And even he said he's a dick.
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Re:Code Interviews by b20000 on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:58PM (#28437386)
sounds like what google does with their analytics and google drive products
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