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daniellee85

True about "think through the problems before writing your 1st line of code". The reason that "why should you being bitter about trying again?" maybe about the rumor of "three-interview limit".

Am I “banned” from Google or Should I “ban” Google?

I have been onsite three times with Google.Eww, right? "Why would you do that yourself?" Well, My girlfriend is there I always wanted to be with her, as we did at graduate school. And I wanted to be or as "good" as her.The first two times were myself to blame: not enough time practicing the quizzes and bad timing. The third time recruiter contacted me again, I spent months to go over...

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This is a very hard question actually. Interviews are pretty subjective process. It will be very hard to summarize what are the possible reasons to hire/reject candidates.

Aside from answering the author's question, I would propose the onsite in-person interview should be video recorded, conducted by one interviewer. Then later replaying in the hiring committee or what so ever, and vote for hire/no hire. That could eliminate any discrimination/bias/subjective/personal feedback from interviewer and stop interviewee from being accusing any accidents during the process.