WIP video about Google Interview Questions - Kindly Requesting Feedback
Added 2025-02-14 18:59:53 +0000 UTCComing soon: a video about a tricky google interview question and how things work on the micro level!
We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video!
Animations are still in progress and placeholders are used for Derek talking to the camera. Producer Henry has also recorded some temporary lines of voiceover, so you'll hear his voice mixed in where Derek's will eventually be.
Thanks everyone!
Comments
I agree. The purpose of such questions in an interview is not to see if you can arrive at the answer, but rather to gain insight into the interviewee's thought process. Fun, but like Google, I never really knew quite what to do with the answer. Great idea for a video!
Gregory Laborde
2025-02-16 01:12:10 +0000 UTCYou do not really have to do anything. Shrinking you down to the size of a nickel will vastly reduce the surface area of your feet (~/6000). Your full weight pressing (~500 N) pressing down on the glass will greatly exceed the surface yield strength for Pyrex (~7000 kpa) and it will break. Watch out for sharp edges! If your mass decreases too, well...
Gregory Laborde
2025-02-16 01:09:46 +0000 UTCAt Microsoft, the origin of the "Interview Question" tradition was, I think, Charles Simonyi. He would say the goal of the interview is to observe the candidate in a simulated work environment. So, our questions were always exercises in solving a coding problem. It was only later, for a brief period, when recruiting program managers that interviewers introduced "Brain Teaser" problems (developers were never encouraged to ask such questions). And I believe this fell out of favor for non-developer questions as well (except perhaps as ice-breaker). - Mike Koss (@MS from 1983-2002)
Mike Koss
2025-02-15 15:42:54 +0000 UTCI have a video idea for you guys. You should do a video on plant breeding and double haploid technology. I'm a student at Iowa State University and there's lots of interesting people here to talk to about it
Thaddeus Paul Hatfield
2025-02-14 21:28:56 +0000 UTCCan we see some data on human athletes' jump-height, correlated by height and/or weight? (Are olympic high-jumpers smaller than average people, or larger than average?) At Microsoft we went through the same evolution of getting rid of stupid brainteaser questions. (search for "Feynman interviews at Microsoft" for a fun parody of that) Glad to hear Google outgrew that phase too.
Shawn Van Ness
2025-02-14 21:06:25 +0000 UTCI'm with Dr. Muller, the answer is wrong, but that's not the point. The question is ridiculous - worse, it is not just useless, it is harmful. But mostly I just feel for Producer Henry. I wonder if he felt like someone applying at Google. "Really? You want me to .. what?" 😊
Patrick W. Gilmore
2025-02-14 20:05:24 +0000 UTCIn my view, Dr. Muller's mouth & sound are not in sync. Plus sometimes when his face is on screen, it is not his voice coming out. Other people's mouth & sound are in sync.
Patrick W. Gilmore
2025-02-14 19:49:22 +0000 UTCSo the right way to answer this question will be asking "if the size of atoms relative to the tiny human is same or relative to blender is the same?", both ways treats the Physics, Chemistry, Biology differently and problem becomes too large to apply any meaningful statistics.
Ayush Agrawal
2025-02-14 19:26:01 +0000 UTCHello Derek, please don't ignore me, I really need your help, please write to me.
Иван
2025-02-14 19:10:39 +0000 UTC
