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Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

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1764 points fatihky | 1 comments | 13 Oct 16 15:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.389s | source
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maverick_iceman ◴[13 Oct 16 15:48 UTC] No.12701547[source]▶
This is very hard to believe. In most big tech companies technical interviews are conducted by technical people, not recruiters. Especially for a senior role like Director of Eng. the experience described here stretches credulity.

Also most of these companies have policies which don't allow any feedback to be given on interview performance. In light of that the recruiter saying "you don't have necessary skills" is extremely surprising.

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1. teej ◴[13 Oct 16 15:56 UTC] No.12701621[source]▶
This wasn't a technical interview. This was a phone screen. As dumb as it is, having non-technical recruiters do a "technical" phone screen like this is increasingly common. I don't think this practice is completely justifiable, but part of the root cause is the enormous volume of grossly underqualified people who apply for any particular position. It takes a hiring company a large amount of work to vet a candidate but it takes a candidate nearly 0 effort to apply for a job.