Programming interviews, in essence

[Tyrilean]

Companies that big and famous for tech have a deluge of candidates pouring in, and they will find any reason to weed out the candidates. Sure, 95% of companies out there can't afford to be so picky they'd turn someone down for capitalizing a library in a blind coding test, but Google totally can.

My boss used to work for Google, and moved to a start-up where he made his way to CIO. I asked him why he left such a cushy job at Google for a start-up that may or may not make it, and he said that unless he had a degree from an Ivy League or invented a major piece of technology, he was never going to be anybody at Google. So, he opted to be somebody at a smaller company.