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I'm probably not as driven as most people here. But I wouldn't want to have SEVEN technical interviews for what seems to be a relatively average opening.
I recently had an interview at a taxi firm that followed this format. One two three pre-interviews followed by a day of 5 grueling 1 hour interviews. I didn't get the role. Apparently the frontend guy I had the first interview of the days five was concerned about my technical skills. I mean, I find it insulting, having worked for the last 12+ years as a developer to be told that there were "concerns about your techni…
I had about a hundred thousand lines in a major open source project at the time.
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> Google employs the very elite of the elite Do all people with a @google.com email address keep telling themselves that?
I’ve never worked at Google. Have you done one of their interviews? How do you think the world leading research results that they do without world leading people?
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> Google employs the very elite of the elite Do all people with a @google.com email address keep telling themselves that?
I’ve never worked at Google. Have you done one of their interviews? How do you think the world leading research results that they do without world leading people?
Reading that stuff always makes me feel incredibly stupid (or rather clueless). I wouldn't be able to answer most of those questions off the top of my head. Including this weird clock hand question (which is probably some trivial math that might or might not have been taught to me more than a decade ago and which I never ever actually applied since). Then I probably have to remind myself that I'm (halfway successfull…
Many people who work at Google feel the same. The impostor syndrome is a recurring motive in in the internal communications.
Reading that stuff always makes me feel incredibly stupid (or rather clueless). I wouldn't be able to answer most of those questions off the top of my head. Including this weird clock hand question (which is probably some trivial math that might or might not have been taught to me more than a decade ago and which I never ever actually applied since). Then I probably have to remind myself that I'm (halfway successfull…
> Maybe Google scale isn't for me. Google employs the very elite of the elite. If you're working there you're probably at the very top of your field. Obviously not every can meet that standard and there's no shame in not being the absolute best.
I feel a little sorry for Google's developers. They're told they're brilliant but asked to write software to deliver adverts and track people. They could literally be curing cancer and putting people on Mars if they wanted, and yet they sit in Mountain View working out new things to do with the data about what I clicked on today. It's a huge waste of talent.
I recently had an interview at a taxi firm that followed this format. One two three pre-interviews followed by a day of 5 grueling 1 hour interviews. I didn't get the role. Apparently the frontend guy I had the first interview of the days five was concerned about my technical skills. I mean, I find it insulting, having worked for the last 12+ years as a developer to be told that there were "concerns about your techni…
I understand your frustration, but it seems clear to me that there is difference in what you consider high level technical skills, and what others might perceive as such. In a highly paid position, both selling yourself and your ideas, and smoothing out differences such as this one, are expected from the employee. While I believe that with your experience, you have accomplished a high degree of strong delivery... You…