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Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."
Which means that the YouTube CEO is scouring Hacker News.
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Who told you that your GPA rules you out? If you have actual experience, nobody should care about your GPA. Or even whether you have a college degree. Lots of people at Google don't. If you're still in college it might be an issue, but if you have something to point to you still have a shot at getting into the interview process. The interview process is hard. I won't lie to you about it. Even if you belong at Google,…
Internal languages? Why would Google make new languages when there are already many great ones already available? It sounds counterintuitive and inefficient. Please answer if you can.
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Who told you that your GPA rules you out? If you have actual experience, nobody should care about your GPA. Or even whether you have a college degree. Lots of people at Google don't. If you're still in college it might be an issue, but if you have something to point to you still have a shot at getting into the interview process. The interview process is hard. I won't lie to you about it. Even if you belong at Google,…
Internal languages? Why would Google make new languages when there are already many great ones already available? It sounds counterintuitive and inefficient. Please answer if you can.
If the language is well-suited to the task, this is in fact an efficient approach.
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Who told you that your GPA rules you out? If you have actual experience, nobody should care about your GPA. Or even whether you have a college degree. Lots of people at Google don't. If you're still in college it might be an issue, but if you have something to point to you still have a shot at getting into the interview process. The interview process is hard. I won't lie to you about it. Even if you belong at Google,…
to be fair, nobody explicitly told me that gpa rules me out. but after i revealed my gpa, the youtube employee who reached out to me suggested that my resume would be discarded if my gpa was below 3.5, and even then, they unofficially shoot for 3.7. i only graduated in 2009, and as a self-taught programmer who graduated with a Psychology major, i have almost no training in computer science (i couldn't tell you what a…
That said, you won't get through the Google interview without filling in some of your CS holes. You don't need to know what anything is called, but if you don't understand why quick sort and merge sort are efficient, you'll have trouble with the interviews.
That said, if you made it through real analysis and algebra, then the CS stuff you need shouldn't be too hard for you to learn. Really. If your interests include math and CS, one fun place to start is trying to tackle Project Euler problems. While doing that, read a few books, and you should be good to go.
Is YouTube exempt from Google's lengthy indirect hiring processes?
someone from youtube recently reached out to me about some stuff and as an aside commented that i'd also probably make a good google employee. but my college GPA (2.8 or so) pretty much rules out that possibility. too bad.
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And I’m sure they'll give him time to work it out further, but is this the innovation YouTube is looking for? Hard to believe their UX people and dev teams haven’t already toyed with something like this.
He threw something together that people could get a feel for. I'll concede that it was hardly usable given the performance. But it was only a demo, enough of one to show just how usable the real thing could be.
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Probably not. But when the CEO knows someone who he wants to hire, the rules can be bent. Remember, a lot of people working at Google got there via acquisitions. And they are afforded all the rights of "normal" employees that had 10 weeks of interviews (including moving to a "normal" team). I assume Google's official hiring process is mostly for recent college grads, because they don't have any experience (or code) t…
Acquisition employees still have to go through a round of intense interviews in order to continue through the acquisition
Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."
The main difference is that we value slightly longer comments. (But so does Slashdot, and they have a lot more users.)
I know Feross Aboukhadijeh personally. He graduated from my high school a year before me. For those who are talking about the "lengthy hiring processes", he just completed an internship at Google this summer. He also founded http://www.freetheflash.com/ and http://www.studynotes.com/ . Check out his impressive resume at http://www.feross.org/Resume_Feross_Aboukhadijeh.pdf He's definitely more than capable of producin…
Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."
Which means that the YouTube CEO is scouring Hacker News.