Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
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#2These would be stupid questions even if they weren't being administered by a non-programming recruiter.
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#3Hahaha, that is funny/tragic. Outsourcing hiring a director of engineering to a moron with a cheat sheet! Your answers were great, though, and indeed on the systems I have tried the popcount() computation with the bit shifts you suggested is faster than using an 8 bit lookup table. (however the SSE4 popcnt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4#POPCNT_and_LZCNT) is faster still).
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#4Maybe they set unrealistic expectations to see if the applicant lies about meeting them and give wrong answers to see if the person acts like a smartass.
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#5terrible interview questions, that's why only technical people should be giving technical interviews. Most answers to questions are more nuanced than a straight quantifiable answer they have on a sheet of paper.
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#6This right here is why Google hit the wall and stopped innovating. Which is sad because they seem to be trying really hard.
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#7I had almost exactly this same engineering test when google interviewed me in 2006. It was terrible, and left a bad taste in my mouth. Given the complexity of the work I was doing at the time, the entire thing seemed ridiculous.
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#8Is this for real? Wow.
Reads like someone spoofing the real Google interview.
For "Director of Engineering" they have a technical illiterate (nothing wrong with that, in other contexts) check for literal matches of answers? the mind boggles.
(I'm really having a hard time believing this is for real)
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#9Sometimes I wonder if this approach has hurt Google's ability to innovate.
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#10This hiring test makes me cringe. How is this any better than taking a multiple choice test in college? These questions asked should invite back-and-forth conversation like the author is providing, especially when the company is seeking out highly qualified candidates.