google interview

[David Rysdam]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:15:41 -0400, Chris <fj1200 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I had an onsite (Mountain view) interview with them a few years ago
> and I was there for nearly 6 hours.

I think that's step 3 or 4. Step 2 is another phone interview with a
Google engineer(s). But they sent page after page of "preparation
materials" and it's just...ugh. It looks like studying for a final and I
didn't even apply! It seems like they should have a different process
when the pursuit goes the other way. What's my incentive to clear these
hurdles?

> However, like you, my language skills are deep but not wide, more into
> assembler and C, and virtually non-existent knowledge of any of the OOP or
> scripting languages, but that wasn't a problem, as long as you don't try to
> B.S. you should be fine.

I don't think I could honestly claim either depth or breadth. (Or maybe
a little breadth--I don't know how broad the typical programmers stable
of languages is.) I just don't have much depth in their "big five". I
don't really base my career on knowing a bunch of facts, especially
perilous in these days of Google (ironically) and when new languages
come out every month. I should have told them I know Go...