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Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

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1764 points fatihky | 2 comments | 13 Oct 16 15:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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burkaman ◴[13 Oct 16 15:44 UTC] No.12701499[source]▶
Is this common for higher level positions at Google? I've gotten a similar kind of phone screen, but for an entry level software engineer position, and getting a few "wrong" was not a big deal. It's just so they can avoid setting up a real interview with someone who doesn't know the basics.

If the call actually went like this, it seems like you just hit a new/not very good recruiter.

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1. DannyBee ◴[13 Oct 16 16:29 UTC] No.12701938[source]▶
"Is this common for higher level positions at Google?"

No, and in fact, it's so far outside the norm i'm not even sure what to make of it. Like I said elsewhere, my best guess is that he was really being evaluated for a much lower level TL/M position in SRE or somewhere.

(The detailed linux questions are usually a giveaway that SRE is involved)

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