Google foobar is back?

#1

Post by fharding » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:25 AM UTC

I just got a Google Foobar window, closed it and then tried to go back to google.com/foobar, but it's not showing up, what's interesting, is that foobar is back? Anybody else notice this?

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#2

Post by 19kuba22 » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 1:10 PM UTC

Seems so.

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#3

Post by worthshare » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 1:43 PM UTC

what is foobar ?

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#4

Post by wayn3 » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 1:51 PM UTC

worthshare wrote: post #3

what is foobar ?

a recruiting game. it opens up randomly (it chooses you) and asks you to perform engineering related tasks. if it deems oyu good enough, you get a google interview.

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#5

Post by guessmyname » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 5:05 PM UTC

worthshare wrote: post #3

what is foobar ?

https://foobar.withgoogle.com/

https://jacquerie.github.io/google-foobar-post-mortem/

https://www.quora.com/What-is-this-google-co-in-foobar

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#6

Post by tedmiston » Sat, Dec 31, 2016, 1:00 AM UTC

Did it ever go away?

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#7

Post by ezekg » Sat, Dec 31, 2016, 11:10 PM UTC

I got it a few months ago by searching something Python-related, completed it over the course of a week or so (with a little help) and then failed their technical interview. Wasn't a fan of the interview process; I feel they put too much emphasis on advanced algorithm knowledge. Left the interview feeling pretty low.

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#8

Post by eru_melkor » Thu, Jan 05, 2017, 1:47 PM UTC

I got it 2 days ago. I'm currently on level 3