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Re:Google Interview Warmup by allenu on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:22PM (#31611138)
To me, it looks like questions about things like "most interesting bug" are unintentionally going to be biased towards more junior developers. Once you have a lot of experience under your belt, bugs and fixes sort of all look the same. They're no longer novel. I don't know how I'm supposed to wade through 20 years of experience and recall "the most interesting bug I ever fixed". Now, if I had 2-5 years of experience, that would likely be super easy to recall.
Re:Google Interview Warmup by izacus on Friday June 03, 2022 @02:59PM (#31612284)
My experience is exactly the opposite: I've never met a senior engineer who wouldn't have one of those bizarre bug debugging / implementation stories.
Re:Google Interview Warmup by dennis_jeeves1 on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:52PM (#31614718)
Such a 'senior' engineer then has not encountered sufficient bizarre bugs. Or more likely he had rehearsed it sufficiently (for a whole bunch of reasons) and you bought into it :)