Hector Martin

iirc it only asks about the time complexity of quicksort. Not why it's "best". The other bizarre Qs are also

very similar to ones on the sheet, but different in important ways. Recruiter misread or he misheard them imo

Yes, some of the questions don't match what I remember. The gist yes, but not the phrasing.

Yup. The story here is "holy *shit* that recruiter is incompetent" more than anything else.

which is pretty much the entire story of google's entire recruitment division

The problem is it's impossible to dedicate engineering time to all candidates. You *need* a prescreen.

I sat next to the recruiters giving out prescreens for months and you have *no idea* how bad it is.

oh I don't only mean that, literally every interaction I've had with google recruitment has been incompetent