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by rifung 4080 days ago
Is it really that bad?

It's understandable if people find it ridiculous to read their code line by line but it's not at all clear from the article this is what was being asked as opposed to asking about the general approach to the problem. I feel like if the person's English was not that good, one thing that the interviewer might have wanted to know was whether the person could communicate effectively with coworkers.

Indeed, the article even says that the interviewer could not understand what was being read. For someone so senior, it's likely that he would have had to mentor junior developers. Seems like it would be a bad experience if they were unable to understand him and vice versa.

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> I feel like if the person's English was not that good, one thing that the interviewer might have wanted to know was whether the person could communicate effectively with coworkers.

person = interviewer, or candidate?

The interviewee may have wanted to know the same thing about Google employees...

Person = candidate

And indeed the interviewee should probably know that too. Either way it sounds like it was a poor fit if they couldn't understand each other