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spankalee on April 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Google Hires

Really? The general policy, as I've been told, is to let the interviewee use whatever language they're comfortable with as long as the interviewer is comfortable with it too. I even give the option of using sufficiently detailed pseudo-code.

fataliss on April 9, 2015 [–]

Well I guess nobody in the team I was contacted to work for was comfortable with Ruby. Screenshot of the actual email: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4g01mqxycyf08u4/Screenshot%202015-... I let you draw your own conclusions.

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