How Google Hires

Re:How Google Hires by IndianAstronaut on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @05:40PM (#9337350)

Facebook is still like this. The ask all the dumb questions like how do you detect what color hat someone is wearing. Then if you don't do well, they won't let you know.

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Re:How Google Hires by limeyx on Thursday April 09, 2015 @01:44PM (#9349445)

I did not have at all this experience interviewing @ Facebook for a mobile position.

Questions were reasonable and the interviewer gave nudges / prompts when it was obvious you were stuck on something.

They really seem to take recruiting very seriously and it showed.

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Re:How Google Hires by justrudd on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @01:16AM (#9338898)

Was this your experience? I just went through an SDE loop last week (still waiting to hear the results), but I got no "aha" questions. 2 strictly coding questions and 1 open-ended design question (with pseudo-code). It was very straight forward.

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Re:How Google Hires by cbhl on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @06:50PM (#9337700)

How do you detect what color hat someone is wearing?

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Re:How Google Hires by DanBC on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @06:59PM (#9337743)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat_Puzzle

Sadly not AI detecting hats and then finding colours based on lighting of faces and rest of scene.

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Re:How Google Hires by jmccree on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @11:57AM (#9341660)

My response would be: Let me take a selfie.

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