Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go

Re:Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go by renewiltord on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:20AM (#32435502)

Absolutely insane as an interview question. I know lots of top engineers who've built the fundamentals and driven companies to billions of dollars multiple times who would have failed to have completed this objective within an hour.

I refuse to believe anyone could imagine it's possible. Either that or there's a whole bunch of hidden talent wasting away at Google - which sounds unlikely.

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Re:Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go by cmrdporcupine on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:19AM (#32437362)

The Google interview is more interested in how you approach the problem, explain it, and analyze it etc than in a working solution. You can pass the interview without having fully working code.

(I did interview training at Google twice)

I still think it's a terrible interview format, though.

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Re:Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go by iainmerrick on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:52AM (#32436681)

Or, most developers at Google do interviews but many of them aren’t very good at calibrating their questions.

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