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		user5994461 on Oct 13, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test The questions are fine for SRE. The problem is the behaviour and the expectations of the interviewer.

rockdoe on Oct 13, 2016 [–]

The people doing these interviews are non-technical people who read off of a cheatsheet. The cheatsheet covers alternative answers, but a situation like the OP describes can never end well.

mfukar on Oct 14, 2016 | [–]

If that's true, making non-technical people conduct technical interviews is also a pretty big failure.

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