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> and because the caretakers were in-house employees of Google, they had passed the same high bar as the rest of Google employees

I wonder what the equivalent "why are manhole covers round" and "reverse this linked list" questions are for a caretaker.

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If anything, Google should ask prospective engineers how they would corral a room full of boisterous toddlers.

Oh, they already do that. IIRC, the phrasing was "how do you deal with multi-team dependencies and OKR conflicts?"

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0 pointsmatsemann2y ago0 comments

> and because the caretakers were in-house employees of Google, they had passed the same high bar as the rest of Google employees

I wonder what the equivalent "why are manhole covers round" and "reverse this linked list" questions are for a caretaker.

If anything, Google should ask prospective engineers how they would corral a room full of boisterous toddlers.

Oh, they already do that. IIRC, the phrasing was "how do you deal with multi-team dependencies and OKR conflicts?"

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse