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A disgruntled Google employee posted a warning for all would-be applicants to the anonymous corporate message board Blind.
In a post titled “I hate Googlers” the author divulged Google’s peculiar strategy of asking interview questions that could only be answered by seasoned teams of experts.
“Why are you asking interview questions that require space partitioning trees or 4d dynamic programming?” the post scornfully pleaded.
Fortune flagged a 2013 New York Times article that quoted a Google executive saying their interview process needed a pivot after they realized “that brain teasers are a complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.”
But, according to the Blind post, condescension and aimless questions are still present in interviews. In a 2013 New York Times article a Google executive called asking brain teasers during job interviews “a complete waste of time.”
“These morons who write hard interview questions don’t even come up with the right answer,” they wrote.
“Worse, these people will have a ‘know it all’ attitude and will become visibly annoyed with you if you try to convince them that they’re wrong, guaranteeing an instant failure.”
Peter Thiel, a billionaire and Silicon Valley legend, deployed brain teasers as a hiring strategy at PayPal. Peter Thiel would ask brain teasers during interviews at PayPal.
Steve Jobs ripped people from assignments at Apple to join him on other internal endeavors if they showed that they could stand up to him – Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs includes an anecdote about an award for employees who best held their ground against Jobs.
These criteria are not analytical of a potential employee’s computing abilities but the strategy is ingrained in Silicon Valley’s fixation with outside-the-box thinking.
The Google employee racked up over 400 likes on Blind – and concluded with a cathartic “Thanks for coming to my TED talk.” There was an award for employees at Apple who did the best job holding their own during an argument with CEO Steve Jobs.
Coincidentally, TED posts field guides for acing and administering interviews of all types.
This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.
What is Dependency Injection – C# Gotcha Interview Questions
Questions about weaknesses or failures
1) What’s your biggest weakness? 2) Have you ever been fired? If so, why? 3) What’s an instance where you failed? 4) What’s an instance where you did something you are ashamed of? 5) Give me an example of a time when you really wanted something, and you failed to achieve it.
Questions about your career history
6) How do you explain the gaps in your resume? 7) Why did you leave your last job? 8) Why were you only at your job for less than a year? 9) Why haven’t you been promoted even though you’ve worked at WXY Inc. for 3 years? 10) Who is the worst manager you ever had and why? 11) What’s the worst job you ever had? 12) What’s your current salary and what do you want to make? 13) What constructive feedback did your last boss give you and what have you done to implement that feedback? 14) If you knew that your last company was going to fail, why didn’t you abandon ship sooner?
“What can you tell me about yourself?”
This one couldn’t seem more straightforward, but it’s important to recognize what the employer actually hopes to discern when asking this question. Don’t focus on your personal life, tailor your responses to highlight specific past accomplishments and be sure to keep your professional strengths at the forefront.
These criteria are not analytical of a potential employee’s computing abilities but the strategy is ingrained in Silicon Valley’s fixation with outside-the-box thinking.
This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.
“These morons who write hard interview questions don’t even come up with the right answer,” they wrote.
Fortune flagged a 2013 New York Times article that quoted a Google executive saying their interview process needed a pivot after they realized “that brain teasers are a complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.”
Peter Thiel, a billionaire and Silicon Valley legend, deployed brain teasers as a hiring strategy at PayPal. Peter Thiel would ask brain teasers during interviews at PayPal.
FAQ
What is a gotcha interview?
How do you answer gotcha questions?
What are the 10 most common interview questions and answers?
- Tell me about yourself.
- What attracted you to our company?
- Tell me about your strengths.
- Tell me about your strengths.
- Where do you see yourself in five years?
- Tell me about a time where you encountered a business challenge?
What are the 5 Star interview questions?
- Tell me about a time when you were faced with a challenging situation. …
- Do you usually set goals at work? …
- Give me an example of a time you made a mistake at work.
- Have you ever faced conflict with a coworker? …
- Tell me about a time when you handled the pressure well.
