Not only are you incorrect, but you are completely off topic.
I am saying Gayle Lackman, the author of Cracking the coding interview and, in the past, one of the board members who decide on candidates in the google interview literally told me word for word that the interview optimizes for IQ. Meaning that there are tons of engineers who can spend a life time studying and never get into google because they are genetically not intelligent enough.
Understand?
> who can spend a life time studying and never get into google because they are genetically not intelligent enough.
Cool story, but a test that has some true negatives says nothing about its false positive and false negative rate.
Gayle has to convince you that an entire life’s work impacting hundreds of thousands of people’s careers isn’t deeply flawed (because that would reflect pretty poorly on Gayle).
Gayle is the last person you would want to ask if the Google interview process is good. Understand?
Would you ask Donald Trump if his presidential administration is doing well?
You're absolutely insane if you compare google engineers with the trump administration. Nobody thinks of google engineers like this. Check yourself. Being a google engineer is like getting into stanford or berkeley the prestige is high and I've even asked engineers who've worked in both scrappy startups and google.
The difference to them is night and day; working outside of a google-like company is like dealing with people at a community college... the level of intelligence, work and projects are on a whole different level.
The google interview process is absolutely stellar at creating teams of raw intellectual power. What it is not stellar at is catching all the people who are incredible programmers but bad at whiteboard interviewing... that's it.
Some of the smartest people work at google for half a million in TC.
