[chromatic]

Have you ever experienced the Google interview process for SRE?

After I'd spent a couple of weeks going through phone screens which alternated between "Rah rah! Google! We solve interesting problems! We're changing the world! Work on whatever you want!" and "How do you sort a million phone numbers using the least amount of memory possible?" and that silly ping pong ball question, the recruiters started asking things like "How do you feel about getting handed code without documentation and being responsible for deploying it?" and "Is it a problem for you to be maintaining code but not writing it?"

Then again, I'd accuse myself of making this up if I hadn't experienced it more than once.

[eru]

Strange, I just went through the interview process for SRE at Google, and didn't have any such problems. (And I don't even have a degree.)

[chromatic]

It happened to me more than once--and I heard similar stories from other people. It's easy to believe that not all interviews happen the same way, so I wrote "the Google recruiters who want me to believe..." rather than "All Google recruiters".

Best wishes for your interviews.

[eru]

Thanks. I'm already hired.