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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: 0s | source
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endtime ◴[13 Oct 16 15:51 UTC] No.12701581[source]▶
I've been at Google for five years as a SWE and I've been interviewing for 3 of those. I'd fail this pop quiz.

This strikes me as bizarre and inconsistent with all the practices I'm aware of. The idea that we'd ask anyone this stuff, let alone director candidates, strains belief.

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caoilte ◴[13 Oct 16 16:35 UTC] No.12701992[source]▶
The only way this makes "sense" is if you already have the candidate (or pool of H1-B candidates) you want in mind, but have to prove you opened up the position to the general public first.
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vthallam ◴[13 Oct 16 16:56 UTC] No.12702169[source]▶
I know some companies do this, but this is Google. There's no incentive for them to hire H1-B's if a equally qualified American citizen is available, since they are going to pay equal salary.
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spcelzrd ◴[13 Oct 16 17:25 UTC] No.12702449[source]▶
They don't have to offer the same salary, just salary in the same range. That range can be pretty wide ($20k+)

Employees on an H1-B visa have drastically less job mobility than US Citizens. This creates a power advantage for the employer.

>but this is Google

Google has, in the past, illegally conspired to prevent other companies from recruiting their employees. This lowers wages and reduces employee mobility. Clearly there's incentive because they have literally broken the law in the past to achieve these results.

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euyyn ◴[13 Oct 16 17:52 UTC] No.12702654{3}[source]▶
> Employees on an H1-B visa have drastically less job mobility than US Citizens. This creates a power advantage for the employer.

Yet Google pays the lawyers needed to get you a Green Card as fast as possible.

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1. spcelzrd ◴[13 Oct 16 20:02 UTC] No.12703583{4}[source]▶
Yet a Green Card does not give an employee anywhere near the same level of job mobility as a US Citizen.
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2. sthatipamala ◴[13 Oct 16 20:47 UTC] No.12703898[source]▶
A green card allows you to live and work in the US without employer sponsorship. There is complete mobility, on par with a US citizen.
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3. sha90 ◴[14 Oct 16 19:34 UTC] No.12710508[source]▶
It's not as bad as previous poster states, but it's not quite as simple as you make it seem either. A green card holder forfeits their residency if they leave the US for "more than 6 months", or if border patrol people feel like they've abandoned their residency for any reason. This doesn't affect most employees, but if you're a consultant working on-site in another country for extended periods, or simply travel often, you have to do way more work to get everything cleared. And even then, there's no guarantee you won't run into problems.