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Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

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Post by nostrademons »

philwelch wrote: post #61
bconway wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the number of acquisitions that Google has started and not completed because of an employee interview (excluding something like outright fraud)?

I parsed it as the employee has to interview for their particular job to continue, not for the acquisition to continue.

I think it's both...the acquisition won't continue if most of the people are dimwits, but it's also possible that the company will get acquired but a couple individual low performers won't be offered positions at the acquirer.

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

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Post by studer »

KeithMajhor wrote: post #4
zerosandones wrote: post #2

Good for him and all, even though the search results were: 1) Painfully slow compared to Instant's realtime. 2) Only one at at time. 3) Text. (People respond to visual cues, and for a vid site, better to have thumbnails display in the results with captions.)

He made it in a day.

It's using existing mechanisms in YouTube's JSON API to find suggestions and play them. All the true "magic" is provided by YouTube's engineers. Not to take it away from someone who writes the right lines of JavaScript at the right time, but you don't have to place the guy on a pedestal.

The real lesson here is for yourself and others here who think like you -- if you tell yourself that things like this take superhuman efforts, how will you ever be able to produce something creative yourself?

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

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Post by nostrademons »

zackattack wrote: post #46
btilly wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

My GPA was 3.0 and I was hired without much of a problem. Had about 4-ish years of industry experience.

It's the lack of formal CS that'll do you in...you have to know some of the theory to get past the interviews. They don't care how you learned it, but they care that you know it.

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Post by nerfhammer »

philwelch wrote: post #61
bconway wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the number of acquisitions that Google has started and not completed because of an employee interview (excluding something like outright fraud)?

I parsed it as the employee has to interview for their particular job to continue, not for the acquisition to continue.

correct

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

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Post by nerfhammer »

jrockway wrote: post #57
nerfhammer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Acquisition employees still have to go through a round of intense interviews in order to continue through the acquisition

Not when they bought Performics.

I know someone well who went through the process recently

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

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Post by PedroCandeias »

minalecs wrote: post #30

Congrats to the creator of Youtube Instant. "Everytime Google or Facebook hires someone another startup dies" - may have not quoted right, but you get the idea.

Not sure I agree with you there, mate. Plenty of startups have been founded by people who cut their teeth at these companies. I know 19yr-old founders are all the rage, but there's a lot to be said about getting some experience before doing the whole startup thing.

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Post by ja2ke »

studer wrote: post #72
KeithMajhor wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He made it in a day.

It's using existing mechanisms in YouTube's JSON API to find suggestions and play them. All the true "magic" is provided by YouTube's engineers. Not to take it away from someone who writes the right lines of JavaScript at the right time, but you don't have to place the guy on a pedestal. The real lesson here is for yourself and others here who think like you -- if you tell yourself that things like this take superhum…

Nothing is more enjoyable than seeing posts on the internet by programmers who look at an idea, then scoff at its simplicity while making a list of all the idea's component parts, pointing out how easy each component is.
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