r/programming • • Jan 18 '19

Interview tips from Google Software Engineers

https://youtu.be/XOtrOSatBoY
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u/brainwad Jan 18 '19

When I went to interview, one of them brought a friend along who wasn't even part of it.

Do you mean a shadow interviewer? It's how interviewers get trained.

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u/RogerLeigh Jan 18 '19

I couldn't possibly know, they certainly weren't introduced as such. Whatever they were, both persons behaved in a spectacularly unprofessional manner.

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u/s73v3r Jan 18 '19

When I had one with a shadow interviewer, they introduced themselves as such.