That's an SRE prescreen; the recruiter was an idiot if that's precisely what transpired. I've seen that Q&A sheet.
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Replying to @marcan42 @FioraAeterna
Do you know the answer to my question about the quicksort one?
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iirc it only asks about the time complexity of quicksort. Not why it's "best". The other bizarre Qs are also
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very similar to ones on the sheet, but different in important ways. Recruiter misread or he misheard them imo
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Yes, some of the questions don't match what I remember. The gist yes, but not the phrasing.
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Yup. The story here is "holy *shit* that recruiter is incompetent" more than anything else.
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which is pretty much the entire story of google's entire recruitment division
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Replying to @FioraAeterna @pikhq and
The problem is it's impossible to dedicate engineering time to all candidates. You *need* a prescreen.
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I sat next to the recruiters giving out prescreens for months and you have *no idea* how bad it is.
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Like datacenter technician applicants who couldn't identify basic parts of a PC.
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So you end up with shitty compromises like these template-based prescreens for recruiters.
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Replying to @marcan42 @FioraAeterna and
And then inevitably crappy recruiters mess it up.
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