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FYI, I believe interview questions are covered under the NDA, so if you did interview (and presumably had to sign an NDA at the time) you shouldn't actually be talking about the questions you were asked.
aren't NDAs void in California? ...I'm not a lawyer.
Just remember, it's cheating if you read these and then go to a Google interview where they use the same questions!
I interviewed at Google today and I recall their documents specifically saying that they would appreciate my not disclosing their questions.
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Google NDAs their interview process? Another strike against their "don't be evil" record. I'm not sure why I even pretend to expect differently now.
Their NDA does not state that the interview process itself is "confidential". It only states that as a part of the hiring process Google may disclose certain information to the candidate that it considers "confidential", and that you as the receiver are only to use this information for the purpose that Google disclosed it to you (i.e., your hiring). It would be quite a stretch to interpret this as meaning that the qu…
As far as I've heard from anyone here, that's the interpretation. Questions are not to be shared, otherwise we'd spend all our time generating new interview questions and never actually getting any work done.
The NDA covers information, not experience.
I must admit to hating interviews and especially these sort of questions. I'll happily sit down and chat to people about any of the areas I know about, but these sort of gotcha questions just make me think 'why I am here justifying myself to these people'? Watch me juggle! Watch me somersault! Watch me do and say pointless things to impress you with how smart I am!
Almost every interview I've ever been on that consisted of these kinds of questions, I've gotten an offer. I agree it's a mostly useless exercise in trying to determine someone's technical skill, but as an interviewee, ultimately it makes more sense to just "play the game" and memorize the mostly-exhaustive list of questions. Conversely, one interview I do remember where I didn't end up getting an offer, was going sw…
Also, lots of people who were once productive on CPAN years ago have "gone dark" in recent years. Generally has something to do with having a life (fulltime job, family, that sort of thing).
So all in all that's a pretty snarky question to ask. It's definitely a plus to show that you have the sense of civic engagement to go through the full-fledged publishing process on CPAN (including processing testing reports, RT issues, etc) but it should suffice to provide code samples with clean coding style and decent enough documentation (even if it's a well-written README).
Google Interview: AdWords Associate • How would you deal with an angry or frustrated advertisers on the phone? And this would be important to google how? Since when did they have telephones installed for customers?
"As an AdWords Associate, your main responsibility will be to manage a portfolio of advertiser accounts. You will be working directly with your advertisers to drive revenue and customer satisfaction."
And of course they have phones. If you were the kind of customer they'd be interested in talking to, you would probably have their number already...