I didn't downvote, but I'll take a shot at answering. Your post had a touch of condescension, sort of: "well I work at Google and you don't, so I obviously know better than you ...".
You generally don't know the history of the people you're interacting with here on HN, so it's not always appropriate to act so smug about where you work.
That thread is amazing. My favorite part is the inventors of Tarsnap and Dropbox basically saying to each other, "oh hey, I'm working on the same thing as you!"
I am also a googler, and the attitude you had definitely felt weird to me. Since you asked for a proof before from another googler / xgoogler, here is mine:
echo "Your Manager Name Here" > file; shasum file
b8de53741d9e64711d4f47dd3a409230fc242fac
I made 30+ interviews before i got bored, for the reasons explained by ludable@. That's a personal choice, but i didn't buy much into asking useless and weird data structure questions. The attitude interviewers had wrt the "false negative" was also really artificial, and also felt elitist. You could really feel that when interviewers were thinking of/discussing new questions, and you could feel how "proud" they were when they found something not even remotely relevant to their day to day job.
I have been at google more than you have, that might be a factor in my thoughts, too.
PhantomGremlin|9 years ago
Kind of reminds me of this HN comment and rejoinder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
You generally don't know the history of the people you're interacting with here on HN, so it's not always appropriate to act so smug about where you work.mwpmaybe|9 years ago
throwaway36912|9 years ago
echo "Your Manager Name Here" > file; shasum file b8de53741d9e64711d4f47dd3a409230fc242fac
I made 30+ interviews before i got bored, for the reasons explained by ludable@. That's a personal choice, but i didn't buy much into asking useless and weird data structure questions. The attitude interviewers had wrt the "false negative" was also really artificial, and also felt elitist. You could really feel that when interviewers were thinking of/discussing new questions, and you could feel how "proud" they were when they found something not even remotely relevant to their day to day job.
I have been at google more than you have, that might be a factor in my thoughts, too.
ocdtrekkie|9 years ago
asuffield|9 years ago