I once failed all my goals agreed upon a year ago but got promoted anyways, because priorities had shifted and the director above me just really, really wanted me to continue building his reputation. (not at google)
replyOh I've had a terrible interview at Google too!
replyThey told me it was all about pseudocode and how I think in advance, then on the actual interview they were being annoying about variable names and spaces after comma, while I was supposed to come up with some clever optimisation that boiled down to: "do you know this obscure theorem already? Cool you pass"
Same for me. I applied for engineering manager. Was told it was going to be a code review. I found a bunch of things that it could be improved, detected a very slow part / quadratic loop, but couldn't come up with the best algo to use. It was just leetcode in disguise.
replyWhich theorem?
replyI don't even know the name. I reviewed the question with a friend of mine who has a PhD in mathematics and teaches at university and he figured it out (after a way longer time than the duration of the interview itself) :)
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