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1764 points fatihky | 1 comments | 13 Oct 16 15:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.277s | source

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probinso ◴[13 Oct 16 19:24 UTC] No.12703351[source]▶

The problem is Google doesn't need you. Google gets onefinity applications per day. If they shave %90 percent of cold applicants this way then they will not hurt for more applicants. A company that large will gain it's best participants by reference.

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my interview with google was very short.

them: what is 2 ^ 37?

me: can I use a calculator?

them: no

me: then we are done here.

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1. mikeash ◴[13 Oct 16 19:55 UTC] No.12703534[source]▶

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Did they want an exact answer? Getting closeish without a calculator is not too hard: 2^30 is about a billion, so 2^37 is about 128 billion.

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