Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
FWIW: As a director of engineering for Google, who interviews other directors of engineering for Google,  none of these are on or related to the &quot;director of engineering&quot; interview guidelines or sheets.<p>These are bog standard SWE-SRE questions (particularly, SRE) at some companies, so my guess is he was really being evaluated for a normal SWE-SRE position.<p>IE maybe he applied to a position labeled director of engineering, but they decided to interview him for a different level&#x2F;job instead.<p>But it&#x27;s super-strange even then (i&#x27;ve literally reviewed thousands of hiring packets, phone screens, etc, and this is ... out there.  I&#x27;m not as familiar with SRE hiring practices, admittedly, though i&#x27;ve reviewed enough SRE candidates to know what kind of questions they ask).<p>As for the answers themselves, i always take &quot;transcripts&quot; of interviews (or anything else) with a grain of salt, as there are always two sides to every story.<p>Particularly, when one side presents something that makes the other side look like a blithering idiot, the likelihood it&#x27;s 100% accurate is, historically, &quot;not great&quot;.