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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by eta_carinae on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:42PM (#4010202)
It is cheating.

Interviewing is different from a real job. You need to show you can do more than look up solutions on the web.

I can't blame you for trying to cheat your way into a job and I certainly blame the interviewer for not seeing through your cheat, but make no mistake: you cheated.

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by antoko on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:59PM (#4010306)
Wow! Did you even read the comment above? The interviewer asked for the source and the candidate responded with stackoverflow.

in this instance that is absolutely not cheating.

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by esrauch on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @11:07PM (#4011322)
It is generally considered cheating by Google phone interview standards, the interviewer probably was satisfied by the other answers, plus the fact that the interviewee immediately and casually owned up to it probably indicated that it hadn't been made clear that it was disallowed.
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