Why Google’s hiring process is broken | Teambox Blog
I’m not posting the full reply, but essentially he..
- Asked me to rate my skills in a list of 14 programming languages.
- Asked me to point my fields of expertise from a list of 30 skills.
I do code a lot of Ruby, serious JavaScript and CSS, but I replied marking everything as “I’m a product designer”, hoping they would ask about that.
That was followed by a phone call, where I had a 45 minutes talk about HTML and CSS details, and discussing the fastest algorithm to determine if a given string is a subset of another one. At no point of the conversation were product design skills or experience mentioned.
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