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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by emperorcezar on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:44PM (#4010217)
I do web development, so arbitrary algorithms questions seem to me to be not applicable to what I do 99% of the time. The other 1% I can easily look up the answer, or at least look up the details I need to find the answer.
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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by jrockway on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:49PM (#4010243)
That's fair, but that's not the sort of position Google is hiring for. We value general computer science more highly than specific Javascript (for example) experience. I can't offer an explanation or analysis of that, but that's how it is. (But if you do have specific experience and know the basic CS, that's ideal.)

Other companies do the opposite, so there's plenty of jobs for either type of person.

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by mkmcdonald on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @06:05PM (#4010341)
> We value general computer science more highly than specific Java[S]cript (for example) experience.

Perhaps this is why Google's JavaScript is so notoriously poor.

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by jrockway on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @06:28PM (#4010454)
What metrics do you use to declare it "notoriously poor"?
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