On: Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

[noufalibrahim]

My father is a civil engineer and late in his career, he interviewed for a senior position at a construction company. He figured out that the interviewer didn't know what he was talking about early on the interview and confronted him with that. The interview came to a end, he was put in touch with a senior engineer at the company. He didn't take the job for other reasons. I don't think this kind of rubbish would fly in any other industry.

[eternalban → noufalibrahim]

A civil engineer is a professional engineer. I would assume your father is a certified PE [1].

This rubbish flies in our industry since we are not professional engineers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_and_Practice_of_Eng...

[dilemma → eternalban]

Nonsense. It's because your industry is relatively new and hasn't established the same institutions.

[eternalban → dilemma]

A professional engineer is not someone who professes to be an engineer. S/he is a "professional" per certification by "established" "institutions" within an "industry".

> Nonsense.

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[noufalibrahim → eternalban]

This is interesting. Is this similar to things like the bar council for lawyers? I don't know if there is something similar to this in India where I'm from.