I don't want to turn this to a flame war but please. I've went through all FAAG (no engineering for N in EU). The interviews apart from never-ending seem to be stacking odds towards fresh graduates. Why else do all of them insist so much on grad level things such as complexities, basic algorithms etc?
Regardless. I refreshed all that and more. But still there always seems to be a guy somewhere in this long way that will throw the odd question (open 'the Linux programmer interface' at a random page and shoot). I mean it is very easy to find a quirky question to ask and then use my flawed or 'I don't remember this off hand (but I can damn sure find it and understand it in 5 mins if you let me) to throw me out of the window.
I've seen the same play at least 6 times (wannabe startups emulate this hiring process - if google does it then it must be correct).
OTOH dunno - perhaps I just don't cut it. Perhaps the competition has been turbocharging while I was working. Dunno.
Regardless. I refreshed all that and more. But still there always seems to be a guy somewhere in this long way that will throw the odd question (open 'the Linux programmer interface' at a random page and shoot). I mean it is very easy to find a quirky question to ask and then use my flawed or 'I don't remember this off hand (but I can damn sure find it and understand it in 5 mins if you let me) to throw me out of the window.
I've seen the same play at least 6 times (wannabe startups emulate this hiring process - if google does it then it must be correct).
OTOH dunno - perhaps I just don't cut it. Perhaps the competition has been turbocharging while I was working. Dunno.