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Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?

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Post by WickyNilliams »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #17
kyled wrote: post #16

Would you really answer this way? Maybe they are trying to test communication skills, ie tell me what's only relevant. Can you imagine if you gave this answer to a product manager for a browser? Context people....

Here's your context, good sir: This is, for intensive porpoises, a page trying to go into as much detail as possible on a very mundane task. No, Actual People (tm) would not answer that way - but going deeper down the stack than usual is considered a form of geek amusement.

OT: Did you intentionally write "intensive porpoises" instead of "intents and purposes"? I can't work out if it was a sublte joke or genuine mistake. The mental image of intensive porpoises is hilarious

Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?

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Post by bobwaycott »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #17
kyled wrote: post #16

Would you really answer this way? Maybe they are trying to test communication skills, ie tell me what's only relevant. Can you imagine if you gave this answer to a product manager for a browser? Context people....

Here's your context, good sir: This is, for intensive porpoises, a page trying to go into as much detail as possible on a very mundane task. No, Actual People (tm) would not answer that way - but going deeper down the stack than usual is considered a form of geek amusement.

Intensive porpoises? Haha. Nice. What a wonderful mental image.

Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?

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Post by bobwaycott »

oarsinsync wrote: post #9
gtk40 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you gave this amount of detail during an interview, you would have one frustrated interviewer and not much time for anything else.

"What happens.... and give as much detail as you can" is how I phrase it. If the candidate tried to give this much detail, I'd stop them, congratulate them on their ability to Google, put a positive mark next to that and move on. Or not, as I've detected they're effectively plagiarising someone else's work. Depends on how far they go with it I suppose. It could go either way! That said, if I let them completely hijac…

> Or not, as I've detected they're effectively plagiarising someone else's work.

Or you've detected their ability to effectively absorb and recall intricate technical details.

Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?

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Post by lazyant »

jedberg wrote: post #28
lazyant wrote: post #13

Just by quick browsing I see missing a lot of network and server-side: what if name server doesn't have domain record, routing protocols (BGP), what happens when request hits Google on their side, there's load balancer for sure -how do they work-, there's probably CDN -how do they work, anycast etc-, there's HTTP to HTTPS redirect...

Make some pull requests to fix it then. :)

yes I do that a lot (throw the stone and hide the hand)

Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?

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Post by ceoloide »

bogomipz wrote: post #24

This is another one of those cliche questions along with "how do you build a URL shortener" and "what is a process" etc., that demonstrates a complete lack of originality of the interviewer. "Oh I have an interview, let me google some good questions. Seriously is there a list somewhere of these for lazy interviewers?

Why would originality be a concern, if the question is good and cannot be "prepared in advance"? I believe that the question is not meant to be asked without follow-ups, or deep dives in specific areas (maybe asking the candidate where they want to focus next). I agree that if the question is asked without entering a two-way discussion, then it's useless.

In the interest of a constructive discussion, why do you believe that a URL shortener is a bad interview question?

Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?

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Post by Bromskloss »

WickyNilliams wrote: post #31
Piskvorrr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's your context, good sir: This is, for intensive porpoises, a page trying to go into as much detail as possible on a very mundane task. No, Actual People (tm) would not answer that way - but going deeper down the stack than usual is considered a form of geek amusement.

OT: Did you intentionally write "intensive porpoises" instead of "intents and purposes"? I can't work out if it was a sublte joke or genuine mistake. The mental image of intensive porpoises is hilarious

I'm pretty sure it was joking about how some people write "intensive purposes", by taking it one step further.

Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?

#38

Post by Bromskloss »

oarsinsync wrote: post #9
gtk40 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you gave this amount of detail during an interview, you would have one frustrated interviewer and not much time for anything else.

"What happens.... and give as much detail as you can" is how I phrase it. If the candidate tried to give this much detail, I'd stop them, congratulate them on their ability to Google, put a positive mark next to that and move on. Or not, as I've detected they're effectively plagiarising someone else's work. Depends on how far they go with it I suppose. It could go either way! That said, if I let them completely hijac…

> they're effectively plagiarising someone else's work.

In a way, that's what learning something from someone else amounts to.

Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?

#39

Post by Piskvorrr »

WickyNilliams wrote: post #31
Piskvorrr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's your context, good sir: This is, for intensive porpoises, a page trying to go into as much detail as possible on a very mundane task. No, Actual People (tm) would not answer that way - but going deeper down the stack than usual is considered a form of geek amusement.

OT: Did you intentionally write "intensive porpoises" instead of "intents and purposes"? I can't work out if it was a sublte joke or genuine mistake. The mental image of intensive porpoises is hilarious

Good catch, I have indeed done so on purpose. My other favorite phrase to sneak into technical writing is "[this and this] needs to be done that way for hysterical raisins". Barely anyone notices.
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