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		DannyBee on Oct 13, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test "What exactly is super strange? " Sure. For starters: 1. This guy apparently did not know he was interviewing for an SRE position. 2. The recruiter was looking for very very specific answers and immediately rejected any others. 3. There was no other discussion of anything, at all.

dkonofalski on Oct 13, 2016 [–]

This is exactly why I think that transcript is a bogus, one-sided take from someone who's dejected and hurt by the fact that they weren't chosen. It reeks of the smell of someone that thinks they were smarter than the interviewer.

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