[the_af]

Steve Yegge famously talked about Google's "interview anti-loop", where you get two interviewers in your process who wouldn't have hired each other, so the things one of them values are actually negatives for the other, and viceversa.

I don't know if that's still a problem at Google, but it could explain why some people don't pass the interview process even though they are reasonably clever.

[NotSammyHagar]

From my more than 5 years at google I saw a lot of random stupid interview questions. I was astounding. 10 years ago they didn't seem to do any interview question checking, you could ask anything.

[NotSammyHagar]

Sorry, "I was astounding" was meant to be "It was astounding". I felt only average at google ;-)