[lostmymind66]

I interviewed for a position last year where the company had a very successful product and was growing, but still small. They wanted to restructure everything (the way they code, teams, management style) to be more like Google.

I made it to the last interview stage, which would have been a 4 hour remote white-boarding session, where they would give me something to code and a team of developers would watch me. I turned it turned it down and found a much better position the next day.

The first stage of the interview was light technical and almost all a psychological test to see if I would be a good 'culture' fit.

The interviewer was a first-time 20-something manager that wanted to make a name for himself and had read a few silicon valley books about technical interviews. He actually told me this.

Most companies aren't Google and shouldn't be emulating much of anything there.

[la_barba]

I don't think its any different than devs thinking they need to "future proof" (a silly idea anyway) their database design for millions of transactions , or needlessly fretting about scale problems that their tiny company is never going to see for YEARS. Or people who copy $famous_dev's coding environment, or coding style or whatever. All people do this in various ways. The only truth here is that it's far easier to point out someone else's flaws.

To take your interview example, you can't really convince a company (or anyone for that matter) they are doing something wrong, if what they're doing is making them money/success. It is a very powerful form of feedback that gets ingrained and is almost impossible to shakeoff.

[lacampbell]

> The interviewer was a first-time 20-something manager that wanted to make a name for himself and had read a few silicon valley books about technical interviews. He actually told me this.

Haha what a champ. I respect the hell out of that.

[lostmymind66]

yeah, well, I didn't want to be managed by this person.