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by yongjik 1740 days ago
The tweet comes up every so often, but it has two problems:

(1) Most of Google's engineers didn't even know Homebrew - it just wasn't something Google used on its notebooks.

(2) There's no such thing as "inverting a binary tree." At least I haven't heard about it anywhere else.

Maybe Google's interview process is broken, but the tweet isn't really explaining much. It's just a nice soundbite.

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Reversing a binary tree is a real question that gets asked in interviews: https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/

It’s actually pretty easy if you’re comfortable with recursion and traversing trees. The tree questions Google asks in its interviews are usually much harder- it implies they were giving softball questions to him.

Knowing Homebrew could have given them reasons not to hire him. He made bad engineering decisions and brushed off feedback. And even he said he's a dick.
sounds like what google does with their analytics and google drive products