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Re:Why I Left Google by cpeterso on Friday June 01, 2012 @02:15AM (#4052208)
That's a lame response from the interviewer, but you should probably have asked him what language you should use before doing it. If he did not say, then his question is underspecified (maybe to test you).

When I interview someone, I explicitly prefix coding questions with "you can just write pseudo-code or whatever you prefer" or "please use C/C++".

Re:Why I Left Google by myko on Friday June 01, 2012 @07:45AM (#4052916)
This is good advice. I believe I did ask and get the okay for using Python on this particular problem, which made the reaction a bit more surprising to me.

The next question had to do with string manipulation and I think he was just worried it would've been terribly easy if done in Python.

Re:Why I Left Google by cpeterso on Friday June 01, 2012 @01:33PM (#4054575)
At least it sounds like the interviewer was just focusing on the next question and not putting you down for using Python.