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For sport over the years, my friends and I have worked through many of ITA's great programming puzzles. I've even used one of their old puzzles (Addagram) in (surely) 100+ interviews where I walk candidates through building up the different considerations in this puzzle. It degenerates or upgrades well for the level of engineer being hired, and when we hire them, it's not uncommon for those engineers to come back wit…
When I needed to understand the complexity of travel search, booking engines, routes, etc. I came across "Computational Complexity ofAir Travel Planning" talk from one of their founders -- fascinating stuff from a understanding the industry and a computer science perspective. www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ ITA-software-travel-complexity/ITA-software-travel-complexity.pd
You know, this isn't a big recommendation for me any more. When I think of Google, I think of a grand deception, or a gilded cage. Or a company that used to have productive chaos and now just has internal disorder. A place that encourages regression to childhood dependence, rather than mature creativity.
Maybe you should say "Google circa 1998-2003"?