My favorite bogus recruiter screen question was "order the these operations by latency". Answer on sheet was 20 years out of date.
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We got the question fixed, but our recruiters had been filtering for the literal opposite of what we wanted for years. The opposite. Years.
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@cynicalsecurity this is why having non-technical recruiters screen technical candidates is foolhardy at best, and harmful at worst. -
how many "technical" technical recruiters are in these jobs, are in the industry? More than 0.1%?
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hacker news seems strangely divided over whether he's mischaracterizing well-known SRE questions & others who got same bad wording.
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A lot of these are SRE questions (e.g. SYN-ACK, typical followup is SYN cookies), but recruiters can be bad at asking
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WHO GRADES THE GRADERS?
#programming@danluu@nothingspic.twitter.com/hTPN49P7P3
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Sad thing is qsort is actually O(n^2), it's only faster in average case
@shanecelis@danluu@nothings
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@polotek Looks like your site is down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gwan.com I hated interviewing at Google. Happily ensconced at Apple now. - 1 more reply
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