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15 Mind-Bending Interview Questions That Every Google Engineer Can Answer

Brent Sordyl — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:02:07 +0000

4. If we had a list of n nodes, what are the maximum number of edges there can be for a directed acyclic graph?

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Why I Won’t Hire You – lifegacker

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:37:44 +0000

1) Show me you can get things done. This means you can accomplish challenging tasks quickly, come up to speed when necessary, go the extra mile if you have to, influence peers. You must be self-motivated.
2) Show me you are intelligent. I will ask you questions that are designed to make you think. Show me you can. Don’t confuse intelligence with education. I don’t care what kind of schooling you had, if you can’t think, no job. If you can think, and aren’t educated, no problem in my book, though I’ll probably look for more experience instead.
3) Show me how I fit into your vision. Truthfully, we’ll work best together if you think this job is the best place for you to be right now. I want to help you succeed in your career, let me.
4) Be highly skilled.
5) Be Passionate. If you are bored working in a similar job somewhere else, you’ll be bored with me. Period. I don’t want any of that.

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five-essential-phone-screen-questions

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:45:02 +0000

The Five Essential Questions for the first phone-screen with an SDE candidate:
1) Coding. The candidate has to write some simple code, with correct syntax, in C, C++, or Java. 2) OO design. The candidate has to define basic OO concepts, and come up with classes to model a simple problem.3) Scripting and regexes. The candidate has to describe how to find the phone numbers in 50,000 HTML pages. 4) Data structures. The candidate has to demonstrate basic knowledge of the most common data structures.5) Bits and bytes. The candidate has to answer simple questions about bits, bytes, and binary numbers.
Please understand: what I’m looking for here is a total vacuum in one of these areas.

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CodeInterview.Me: interviewing programmers made easy

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:04:33 +0000

CodeInterview.me is the easiest way to interview coders with tools that you are used to. Let your candidates code in their own IDE where they feel comfortable and check the results in a rich browser-based plugin, featuring syntax highlighting and more! Share the URL with a team conducting the interview.

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