On: How to Pass a Programming Interview

[pjmlp]

Me neither, it is like some companies like to feel special.

After being invited twice for Google interviews, I mean really invited by their HR, not me applying for them. On both occasions I failed the process with their stupid questions.

I started replying to their HR, if I am so good to be invited but on their eyes unable to devise a inode search algorithm for unlimited hard disk sizes with a specific set of hardware and search time constraints, over the phone interview, then why couldn't they just please stop inviting me!?

That was the last time I heard from them and I don't care a bit about it.

[kafkaesq → pjmlp]

Devise a inode search algorithm for unlimited hard disk sizes with a specific set of hardware and search time constraints?

Curious -- was this problem reasonably related to the kind of work you'd be doing in the role you were applying for?

Or did they just want to find out if, you know.... you had that "spark"?

[pjmlp → kafkaesq]

It was a position related to compiler development.

[kafkaesq → pjmlp]

Weird... what were they thinking?

But thanks. Another data point added to what others have been saying about their hiring process.