I have found myself wishing a lot over the last year or so that interviewing was less of an art and more of a science.
The writer talks about being quizzed on a google product she had only superficially used. She recommends that people do their homework more, but honestly, even a dedicated googlophile would struggle to have tried every google product in depth. She was unlucky that they asked about that specific product.
Honestly, there is a lot more luck in the interview process than makes me comfortable. The difference between getting the job vs losing it can be that the interviewer chose to ask you about smart pointers rather than heap allocation, and that's galling when the reality of the job is that you're going to spend half your time moving text boxes by two pixels and changing log formats to suit the new Unified Log Structure your sysadmins have dreamed up.
The writer talks about being quizzed on a google product she had only superficially used. She recommends that people do their homework more, but honestly, even a dedicated googlophile would struggle to have tried every google product in depth. She was unlucky that they asked about that specific product.
Honestly, there is a lot more luck in the interview process than makes me comfortable. The difference between getting the job vs losing it can be that the interviewer chose to ask you about smart pointers rather than heap allocation, and that's galling when the reality of the job is that you're going to spend half your time moving text boxes by two pixels and changing log formats to suit the new Unified Log Structure your sysadmins have dreamed up.