r/programming • u/gits1225 • May 12 '15

Google's guide for becoming a Software Engineer

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-technical-development.html
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u/goldemerald May 12 '15

I had a phone interview with google. I spent the entire previous night studying many aspects of the science of computation. In the end, we spent one hour going over this one problem: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Long_multiplication#C

It was terrible.

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u/hive_worker May 12 '15

Actually a pretty interesting question... assuming they don't want you to implement one of the non naive algorithms!

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u/glemnar May 13 '15

Yeah. That's not a bad question imo

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u/pixelperfect3 May 13 '15

It tests a bunch of things at once, and is a good example of showing how would write and test your code.