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There are much more efficient ways to find engineers that build high quality applications. I wish you good luck my friend. I hope you do get the job honestly and I'm sure they are a great company to work for. I think it's easier to get hired on through an acqui-hire. My suggestion is don't waste your time trying to impress thrm. Build an application. Get some users. Monetize it. Or move out to Silicon Valley to get a taste of being an engineer at fast paced startup. If you spend the next 12 months solving problem sets versus building applications I think you will havd fallen into a trap. Hopefully not. The title of the article does provide some shock value...I'm sure there are dumber interview processes.
That's not true. They could have easily told me I need to work on my Javascript, understanding of System Design, etc. There are many ways to deliver agnostic feedback. I don't blame them either. My mother is a lawyer...I have a pretty good understanding of liability. Were talking about engineering reviews. You can easily say..Douglas your code would have run way too slow.
I work at a major tech company and we have that policy, so it's funny to me that you think you can so easily categorically deny the possibility. Does Google have this policy? Don't know, but the fact that other tech companies do, and they didn't give you feedback, makes it a possibility.
There are lots of ways to provide agnostic feedback but there are also lots of ways for aloof or disgruntled devs to mess it up and cause a world of hurt for the company. You'll find that a lot of companies in the industry have a policy not to comment on an employee or interviewee's performance.
I was not denying the possibility that the policy exists. Im 100% sure it exists @ Google. I wrote the article because I think they need to change their process and their policy. I do not expect them to. There are standard agnostic responses that you can give. For example, if there 5 predetermined responses that you could expect finishing the interview. Your feedback would fall into 1 of 5 of those choices. I was denying that just because you have a process to give feedback automatically opens you to a lawsuit. Lawyers could create the responses in advance that would prevent liability. I agree open ended feedback would open Google up to lawsuits. Right now, they have a binary feedback system. Yes/No. I'm saying adding there's a way to add 2 or 3 more options to their current feedback system without being liable. It is possible.
