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Yes you can bet the farm that if he interviews at Google, Facebook, Uber, Amazon, Dropbox, etc. they will all whiteboard his ass (if he even gets an interview --because of his age). They don't give a f' who you are or what you did. In my google onsite they didn't even ask about past projects (who cares really?). The question is can you whiteboard?


> They don't give a f' who you are or what you did.

I know a few people who Google has hired into specific roles directly due to their previous work...


What she or he said is mostly true, though. But there are always exceptions.


Yeah, I can't imagine Rob Pike or Guido whiteboarding for their Google interview... Although the thought of such a conversation has me laughing internally.

I created Unix, Plan 9, UTF-8 among other things. Just go ahead and put your dry erase pen back in your pocket sonny.


Probably this is the right thing to do, because this is a weak-link network problem https://9clouds.com/blog/weak-link-networks/.


The good thing about people who math often (which I presume he can since.. Octave) is that they can whiteboard.




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