Resume review process created by former Googlers while they were at Twitter

https://twitter.com/nicolefv/status/1355697245123866624

by ksec • 5 years ago

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onion2k• 5 years ago

I wonder how many current Google employees would pass this test.

frongpik2• 5 years ago

The twitter replies are rather interesting. Regarding tests for "software engineering fitness", one simple test for abstract imagination would be very predictive: ask the candidate to imagine a 3x3 grid with digits, tell the digits row by row and ask to tell the sums column by column. The idea is to test the working memory of the candidate: if it only fits two digits, it won't be enough to make software. Extraordinary candidates would handle a 4x4 grid.

Jugglerofworlds• 5 years ago

As someone with aphantasia, I strongly object to this test which has nothing to do with coding.

frongpik2• 5 years ago

Well, before coding begins, you figure that A calls B, B is related to C and C uses A, but under condition D. My idea is to test this skill of keeping such knowledge graphs in mind.

Doxin• 5 years ago

As someone with a poor working memory for numbers I'd object to this test greatly. Just because I'm bad at math doesn't mean I'm bad at programming.

cher88• 5 years ago

I feel like everyone's skipping past one of the options, "has >4 years of industry experience" - which is not too high of a bar to pass?

5560675260• 5 years ago

As a requirement for a junior position it seems a bit too high.

bleah1000• 5 years ago

Has anyone verified that this is real? Some of it is kind of reasonable, but a lot of it seems so weird that maybe it's a list for a specific position, rather than for a general software engineer. Even then, it seems kind of dumb to require a certain GPA and some of the other requirements seem odd.

Also, it's weird to say that this was created by ex-Google employees. How would they know that? Maybe the person posting it is from HR, but I certainly wouldn't know exactly who created every document/policy at my company. It might have been presented by someone who came from Google, but I would hope this was produced by multiple people. You could probably say that at least one person who came from Google worked on it though.

parliament32• 5 years ago

The key is "at least one". Looks like you can step over everything weird with ">4 years industry experience".

Resume review process created by former Googlers while they were at Twitter

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