orang_utang
Re:Google's interview system: it's not about solving the problem
on Sunday November 11, 2018 @02:21PM (#18428016)
I agree that everyone has good intentions, but at the end of the day these interviews can be gamed really easily.
Before interviewing at Google I spent ~3 weeks doing leetcode style problems on a whiteboard I bought just for this purpose. Did not make me any better as a SWE, but definitely helped me clear my interviews. Without the practice I would have failed my interviews.
Having said that, I don't think I have any better alternatives; any interview process is ultimately going to be game-able in some manner.
Re:No feigning surprise
on Saturday April 29, 2017 @05:52PM (#14228979)
Exactly! I think it is more disrespectful to treat peers as toddlers who need to be shielded from any implied criticism.
Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews
on Sunday April 09, 2017 @04:07PM (#14074106)
From my experience, I'd say Google's interviews need to ask harder questions and last longer.
Today they ask fairly easy questions (given a list of integers, find the subsequence that has the following property etc. - basically leetcode medium level) that you can solve fairly easily using basic CS 101 knowledge. However, it ends up (again, IME) being a race against time where you have to whiteboard code a simple solution in 20 minutes approximately.
I'd much rather have them as questions that take real insight to solve, but have the interviews last 90 minutes or so.