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You're not supposed to ask brainteaser or trivia type questions as a Google interviewer anymore.

But yea I agree with the rest of your post. Also another factor beyond confidentiality is that you can't hire people from other companies through that pipeline, cus they won't do it.

Also worth noting that for certain classes of engineers (new grads), Google does sort of hire people as contractors (though they're full-time with benefits), see the eng residency program.




> You're not supposed to ask brainteaser or trivia type questions as a Google interviewer anymore.

That's what previous means in: > Their previous "brainteaser" style interview didn't work at all


Yes sorry, my sentence scans better with a capital 'OR'


Er. I actually said that they don't use brainteasers anymore in the post.


Yes, hence the OR. You're not really supposed to use cs trivia style questions either. Both are deprecated. It will take awhile for interviewers to catch up though...

I suppose I should have capitalized the OR




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