anonymoose111

that is correct, however that's not exactly what the person in question was looking for while interviewing (not for the other person know have knowledge about the subject) but the ability to be able to understand a concept completely once explained, and work within the rules of the concept. This of course is arbitrary, but not a completely useless question.

google interviews try to gauge how smart you are, not how well you can program

it's a little different when mattresses are essentially a homogeneous good

One of the reasons Google and other top companies pay so many engineers high salaries is to prevent said engineers working on startups. Other comments mention that PhDs are doing trivial and insignificant work at Google -- why? Because Google doesn't want them working on new startups.

This is a non story, a few paragraphs down:

"Implementing the parliament’s recommendation would require the agreement of all EU members, which would probably take years."

Many European countries rely heavily on US tourism, and anything to threaten that could damage their economies.

copying the link and pasting it in a new tab is sufficient -- it's just looking at the http-referer header.

Sam, if you were an important (but non founder) employee at a startup and you were to be acquired, how would you approach the process of integrating and insuring success between the companies? and how would you evaluate the acquiring company and decide if its worth staying at for the long-haul, just until some stay-period is over, or even staying at all?