Re:How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview With Google
by rmrfrmrf on Saturday October 19, 2013 @06:36PM
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...did they at least tell you beforehand that they were coding in JavaScript? In pretty much any other language, that wouldn't compile, but those logical and bitwise operators are used in multiple languages from C to Ruby.
Looking back, it was pretty silly but man did it really kill the confidence of 19 year-old me when it took me 10 minutes to work out that it detected numbers that were powers of 2. It really gave me a negative impression of Google's interview process (that and the complete radio silence afterwards), which I still think about when they send me their bi-annual recruiter emails. Funnily enough, the last email I got specifically mentioned that I had "done really well in the recruiting process in the past".