[marssaxman]

When I interviewed at Google back in 2011, it did not feel like I was being given "tests". They were just... interview problems. Sure, the process was more intense than it has been at some other places - I came away from the interview loop feeling like it had been the hardest day of engineering work I'd done in a long while - but there was nothing unreasonable about it. I wasn't being hazed; it wasn't adversarial; it was just a variety of problems to think about and work on.

I've never really understood the hate. Either I've consistently had a different experience with interviews, or the people complaining have a really different idea about what their job is supposed to be.