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		dominotw on Nov 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I learned from spending 3 months applying to ... There is zero chance of this happening until google/facebook stop doing it. This comment appears in every single interview/hiring thread for past decade. Only change I've seen is actually the opposite now there are 5-10 "rounds" of these quizzes even in a no name enterprise companies.

endymi0n on Nov 21, 2016 [–]

There is anecdotal evidence they did: http://qz.com/378228/google-is-over-those-ridiculous-brainte...

ubernostrum on Nov 21, 2016 | | [–]

They weren't "over it" by last fall.

dominotw on Nov 21, 2016 | | [–]

whiteboard binary tree coding != brainteasers, more like memory testers :).

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