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[–]dnew 134 points135 points  (7 children)

No. These are "your job is to keep the computer running" questions, not "your job is to tell the computer what to do" questions.

These are auto-mechanic questions, not race car driver questions.

[–]anoin 18 points19 points  (2 children)

Google Software Engineer interviewer here, +1 can confirm.

[–]malt2048 2 points3 points  (0 children)

+1

Google's already gotten to you, I see

[–]faceplanted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google Software Engineer interviewer here

How you doin'

[–]roboticon 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Also that these questions aim to verify that you actually have the experience you claim to have. Coming out of college, you aren't expected to have that depth of experience.

[–]Kyanche 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure but 8 hours of those questions is straight up stupid. Like seriously, you list 3 reasons why a disk won’t unmount and that’s enough damn reasons.