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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: 0.433s | 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. YZF ◴[13 Oct 16 20:22 UTC] No.12703732[source]▶
You don't need a calculator for that, it's: 10000000000000000 ...

(binary obviously)

I could say pretty quickly it's somewhere around 12 billion decimal but an exact answer on paper would take me some time...

The amazing thing is that everyone thinks they're hiring the best people while it's pretty much never true. Generally speaking a place that pays well, treats people well and has challenging work will have better people than a place that doesn't and the hiring practices ability to filter beyond that are negligible.

OOPS 128 billion :)