Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work?

Re:Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? by noone_er2 on Friday August 31, 2012 @09:26AM (#4459564)

can you please post the way you prepared for technical interview. Just what you think can help someone who is preparing for it. what kind of questions they asked ? any thing to watch out for..

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? by mdwelsh on Friday August 31, 2012 @09:32AM (#4459599)

This is the best book on technical interviews for places like Google:

http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? by skystorm on Friday August 31, 2012 @12:17PM (#4460315)

I second this, helped me a lot, too. In particular, it covers a wide range of topics, each with some introductory exposition, and gives a variety of example questions with answers.

Additionally, glassdoor.com has a lot of user-contributed interview questions and lets you search for/filter by specific companies.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? by pimentel on Friday August 31, 2012 @09:45AM (#4459651)

Does it just prepare for code interviews, or do you actually learn something useful with it, besides getting a job?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? by Evbn on Friday August 31, 2012 @10:27AM (#4459846)

It is for interviews. You should already know the useful stuff for your job. The best you can do that is relevant to both fronts is

Work through CLRS algorithms book

Practice explaining technical ideas in spoken conversation.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? by tazzy531 on Friday August 31, 2012 @04:08PM (#4461470)

When I interviewed, I studied this book cover to cover for 3 months prior to the interview. It definitely came in handy: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steve-Skiena/d...

There's also lecture videos here: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/

Learning data structures that you don't use often, like bit arrays, come in handy for interviews, especially for when they ask you to optimize your solution. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_array)

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? by tonfa on Friday August 31, 2012 @12:14PM (#4460305)

The Steve Yegge blog post.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? by packetslave on Friday August 31, 2012 @06:23PM (#4461934)

This is the post tonfa@ refers to: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...

I believe some recruiters actually send it (or a modified version) to candidates who ask how to prepare. I'd also recommend the book "Algorithms for Interviews"

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work? by offer_today on Friday August 31, 2012 @01:49PM (#4460814)

Yes, this describes how I prepared. The questions were not as difficult as the topics Steve listed.

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