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Re: Foo.Bar with Google?

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Interesting. I tried logging into the site and it says "To login, you have to have logged in before. Confused? Search on..."

Apparently this link will show up in your search results, but only when "it finds you" can you login and start the coding challenges.

Can you elaborate? I don't understand.

Re: Foo.Bar with Google?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently this link will show up in your search results, but only when "it finds you" can you login and start the coding challenges.

Can you elaborate? I don't understand.

> No puzzle here. You can only log in if Google has flagged your search topics.

> On google search, you have the variable window.location.search = "?gfe_rd=cr&ei=XXXGyZiVNHoFcuF8Qe7wYHACw&gws_rd=ssl"

> That string is appended to the url of the iframe: src="https://foobar.withgoogle.com/"+window.location.search

Check this sub-thread of the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590155. Someone goes into more depth about it.

Re: Foo.Bar with Google?

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I got asked to interview for google due to python code on github, others I know have had similar invitations to interview as a result of python experience. They seem to be on a hiring push right now.

wow, i should publish my code on github more.

Re: Foo.Bar with Google?

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People who haven't applied to Google yet: be warned that it's a long process that will take you a lot of time, and that the rejection rate is really high.

On the plus side: you will probably learn a lot.

Re: Foo.Bar with Google?

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I got asked to interview for google due to python code on github, others I know have had similar invitations to interview as a result of python experience. They seem to be on a hiring push right now.

Do they ask you to remove the repo? I can't find any python code on your GitHub profile https://github.com/blamestross

Re: Foo.Bar with Google?

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What topic were you googling? Also, its interesting that this account was created so recently... maybe this is Google itself.

I was searching stuff on Python lambdas.

No, not Google :) Just been lurking on HN for a while and never had anything interesting to add before.

Re: Foo.Bar with Google?

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I got asked to interview for google due to python code on github, others I know have had similar invitations to interview as a result of python experience. They seem to be on a hiring push right now.

Do they ask you to remove the repo? I can't find any python code on your GitHub profile https://github.com/blamestross

this is the repo where most of my older academic stuff is. (blamestross is my personal account). It is a bit ironic because we do everything on university hosted private gitlab server now. https://github.com/BrendanBenshoof
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