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Foo.Bar with Google?

100 points| mragh | 11 years ago

I was Googling some Python topic when my search results page suddenly split in the middle with some text saying something to the effect of "You speak our language, would you like to take a test?", linking to http://www.google.com/foobar/ .

I followed it and was led to a pseudo-shell, where I then found some coding problems. I can return to the page to continue working on them.

I've searched around and haven't found anyone else talking about this. What is it?

20 comments

joelthelion|11 years ago

People who haven't applied to Google yet: be warned that it's a long process that will take you a lot of time, and that the rejection rate is really high.

On the plus side: you will probably learn a lot.

samirmenon|11 years ago

What topic were you googling?

Also, its interesting that this account was created so recently... maybe this is Google itself.

mragh|11 years ago

I was searching stuff on Python lambdas.

No, not Google :) Just been lurking on HN for a while and never had anything interesting to add before.

kakakiki|11 years ago

Interesting. I tried logging into the site and it says "To login, you have to have logged in before. Confused? Search on..."

film42|11 years ago

Apparently this link will show up in your search results, but only when "it finds you" can you login and start the coding challenges.

Rhapso|11 years ago

I got asked to interview for google due to python code on github, others I know have had similar invitations to interview as a result of python experience. They seem to be on a hiring push right now.

jp_sc|11 years ago

Do they ask you to remove the repo? I can't find any python code on your GitHub profile https://github.com/blamestross

thearn4|11 years ago

Same here, though in my case it was LinkedIn.

anaktos|11 years ago

wow, i should publish my code on github more.

wlrd|11 years ago

What were you searching?

lun4r|11 years ago

There are quite a few matches for "google.com/foobar" … https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22google.com%2Ffoobar%...

Blahah|11 years ago

Those are mostly just using foobar as an example path in documentation.

owenwil|11 years ago

Can you share a screenshot?

iDemonix|11 years ago

Seems they're pushing to recruit Python engineers? I should really branch out from PHP and Perl...

dscrd|11 years ago

I apologize for going all reddit on you but: Duh.

mtran1|11 years ago

I also got the code challenge from google. I was searching "angularjs directives"

yzzxy|11 years ago

Recruiting

hprof1|11 years ago

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