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Yes... it's idolizing women... as sexual objects offered as a perk to male coders so that they can serve the men. As a female coder, I'd rather not be offered as a perk to male cod…

They wrote two apologies. Their first one was pretty terrible and did not show that they had actually processed why what they did was so offensive. Their second apology was a bit b…

If I were to theorize that this were a real interview question (which, again, it's not), then I think the first step is to ask a bunch of questions. Almost any solution to this pro…

Thanks :) And as an ex-hiring committee member myself, I agree with everything Collin there said too. And it pains me that people write blogs / books promoting this brain teaser st…

If you're finishing your junior year, then yes, that's true. But if you've only done one year of college, then you might have trouble finding a paid internship. Your best bet might…

The fifth edition of Cracking the Coding Interview came out a few weeks ago. The correct link is http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466208686 .

As a (female) software engineer at Google, I once staffed a booth at CES. CES doesn't, to my knowledge, have many booth babes, and there certainly weren't any at the Google booth. …

The correct term is "women," not "girls." Unless, of course, your company is regularly in the habit of hiring children for marketing position...

@strlen Again, some of the questions are absolutely 100% FAKE. So if some questions (like the "why are manhole covers round") are definitely fake, and others seem very weird (like …

@andylei Yes, some do happen to be real. The point is that if several are definitely fake, why believe the rest? For example, take this one: "A man pushed his car to a hotel and lo…