u/Status-Jump-6454 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
My school mates work at Google, so I heard many stories about "looking for strong engineering thinking over just code" from inside. Can only say it's not exactly true and knitted for a company scale to avoid false-positive. So, you just need to be adjusted to this interview st
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I would agree that I'm presenting a more philosophical view, and that when you scale anything up there are ways to get advantage, but I do see people regularly who prioritize "the thinking" first for all companies, and then pass Google, whereas people who obsess/only focus on Google tend to not do as well. There's one exception to that case where the person prepared full time (40 hours a week) for 6 months to get into Google and did.