Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
This was posted previously, in October 2016:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12701272An actual Google director of engineering pointed out that these are individual-contributor SWE/SRE questions (and I can attest I got very similar questions as a new college grad).As I commented previously: "Reading more closely, it sounds like they are not interviewing him for a director of engineering position; it just sounds like he thinks his current role, CEO-who-writes-code of a very small software company (http://www.gwan.com/about), qualifies him for a director-of-engineering-level position. He's probably being interviewed for an SRE team lead or thereabouts."Also, a ton of this conversation makes a lot more sense if you make the assumption that the interviewee is misremembering the questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702726 (Which is a very gentle assumption, if the interviewee also mistakenly thought they were being interviewed to be a director of engineering.)In which case, screening out someone with an inflated sense of their own experience and overconfidence that the stupid person on the other end of the phone is stupid is exactly what this process is supposed to do.