Interviewing is the culprit

The interview process at google su-ks. It took me 3 attempts to make it and I'll tell you there is very little correlation between a good employee and someone passing that crazy test which has no feedback. Just insane. Its terrible.

Then you add the political culture. Just adding "googlyness" in the interview doesnt compensate for a terrible interview process.

You end up getting decision makers who had the world changing technology in AI and find ourselves stuck behind Microsoft and openai.

Dont over pay the decision makers, the product managers and change the hiring practices.

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@1acz you must be such a joy at parties. I don't know of anyone in my vicinity who didn't spend a few months 'practising' leetcode to be interview ready.

Love seeing Google hire off of ability to use frameworks that kids learn at their Masters programs instead of real experiences. So out of touch with reality.

Interviewing is an art. Do a bunch of leetcode questions and you get enough insights for the interview problem at hand. If you know the answer, pretend you don't and show you can work through it.
Job performance is anyways not co-related to interview performance. I had to give sub par ratings to some who did really well in interviews. Whereas some who just 'scraped through' have really raised the bar.

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You "cram" for an interview? Perhaps that the first sign of "WTF would I want to work here?" eh?

FWIW, I recently worked at a high tech company and we would tell potential interviewees not to bother "cramming" because (a) the coding problems asked are general enough that cramming won't help you and (b) should you know the "answers" to the questions asked, the interviewer will know and can easily redirect, and that if all you know is from cramming, you'll fall flat on your face and that will be that.

Rejected many sad candidates that way. So, yeah, if a company ... um ... Pacific Playland requires candidates to cram, I wouldn't be interested.

@xuh+1qJnrYJV more than one attempt is often needed as it takes time to cram leetcode and hope there will be some overlap between the crammed leetcode and the interview questions. Leetcode questions are asked by fairly junior developers (3 to 7 years work exp) and senior people who lost their chops. Real technical interviewers do not rely on a site like leetcode.

Why did it take you three attempts? You wanna work and "Pacific Playland" so badly? Why? You'd think you'd get the lay of the land after the first set of interview and vamos. Perhaps you deserve to be there.

Bro / gal, @op was just talking about what he believes the problem is with company culture. If you dont want to discuss it then move on .. why unecessarily try to pretend being the admin of the site ?

this is a board to talk about layoff and not to vent your weaknesses

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