The worlds best search engine is known for its grueling interview process.
So, how does Google recruit programming experts?
Well, the company secretly recruits their top coders based on their internet searches.
Thats how Max Rosett landed a software engineer position at the tech giant.
The Google split open and revealed a black box that read Youre speaking our language.
Up for a challenge?
He accepted the challenge, and was shown particular programming exercises for him to solve in exactly 48 hours.
I clicked through and landed on a page that called itself foo.bar.
I wont post the problem here, but solving it required a bit of knowledge about algorithms.
I had the option to code in Python or Java.
I set to work and solved the first problem in a couple of hours.
Each time I submitted a solution, foo.bar tested my code against five hidden test cases.
Once my solution passed all those tests, I could submit it and request a new challenge.
Over the next two weeks, I solved five more problems.
In total, Rosett worked through six challenges over a period of two weeks.
I had the option to code in Python or Java.
Once the challenge was over, Google asked for his contact information.
Rosett seems to think very highly of the unusual recruiting process he went through.
Foo.bar is a brilliant recruiting tactic.
However, Google has never confirmed that the test is a recruiting tool.
Rosetts experience is not unusual.
source: www.techworm.net
