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by iamandoni 3757 days ago
As a correlation to this site, there is a secret programming challenge within google at: http://www.google.com/foobar/

You have to get invited to it (via searching the correct keywords, etc. I got invited when googling about dependency injection). It is a series of programming challenges that get really difficult. But after completing them, I got a final round interview at Google, which was pretty cool.

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I've been working through them and the difficulty has been all over the map. I've gotten a couple of [what I thought were] moderately hard, whereas one problem basically had a very complicated phrasing, but the answer ended up being [length of the input vector] - 1, plus some other trivial ones.

It's pretty fun though, even if you're not looking for an interview.

Does anybody know if it only invites you if you're in specific countries?
I do not know about inviting - as I was only invited in the US. However, when they asked for which office I wanted to interview, I chose from the global list of offices.