We lost candidates due to recruiter screens like this when I was at Google. Not sure why they persist in doing them http://www.gwan.com/blog/20160405.html …
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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 Answer on sheet was 20 years out of date.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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Whenever I hear "we can't lower the bar" I find at least one laughable filter in the process; often the literal opposite of what they want.
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The HN comments have Google employees who claim it's implausible this ever happened to anyone, along with employee who says it's common.
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Maybe they'd be more trusting of it if you phrased it like "Perhaps you're a non-consensus node having partition tolerance issues?"
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