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Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

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1764 points fatihky | 3 comments | 13 Oct 16 15:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
1. intrasight ◴[13 Oct 16 17:15 UTC] No.12702368[source]▶
The process seems geared towards hiring people right out of school since they'd have no expectation that such a candidate would be able to answer such questions.

Am I right in thinking that it's easier to become a Googler by starting a company that gets acquired than by submitting to such a broken interview process?

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2. qznc ◴[13 Oct 16 17:44 UTC] No.12702602[source]▶
I assume the easiest way to get into Google/Apple/Facebook is an internship.
3. gcp ◴[13 Oct 16 20:11 UTC] No.12703649[source]▶
Am I right in thinking that it's easier to become a Googler by starting a company that gets acquired than by submitting to such a broken interview process?

No, not at all. At least it used to be so that when Google acquired a company, they ran all your engineers through their interview process, and if more than half didn't make it, they stopped the acquisition and the deal was off.

The justin.tv/Twitch people blogged about how this effectively made them a billion by stopping an early acquisition until they were worth much more.

(Or at least that is what I remember reading - I can't find the article right now, so maybe it wasn't Twitch)