Google's secret to hire the best

Feb. 27, 2017

Introduction

Julia continues her study on Google, read an article: Google's secret to hire the best. Last week, Julia did not dedicate the whole weekend to hackerrank week of code contest, instead, she started to work on the study of Google.

To play a contest on Hackerrank, Julia calculates some math. She has to dedicate herself whole weekend in order to get a medium algorithm done. She has to entertain herself first, play some music, lookup her ideas by Google, write some simple idea to play against hackerrank test case, until she warms up with the algorithm. Sometimes, it takes 5 - 6 hours until she failed so many times and then she understands the problem - what is the real challenge in the problem statement.

All those hours and labor build up her character, she never experience this kind of research before. Over 10 hours, she makes something happen, solve a medium algorithm. Sometimes a medium algorithm can take her a few days. Since Nov. 2016, a few times, she has to continue to catch up more research after the contest, and then work on codereivew.stackexchange.com, get some help and find something more interesting to continue.

Julia learns to work on one algorithm a time, and also has to learn to let it go. She knows that she will forget the algorithm completely, it does not matter how hard she intensively trains herself in the contest/ after the contest, and she needs to relearn it one day. Only thing left is something surprising, her new character still trying to molded, the strong determination to solve the problem. The will, or the intuition to try new ideas, relentlessly. That is something different she could not find in the training of Leetcode algorithms, not time pressure of Hackerrank contest, and no ranking or coding sharing procedures.

Julia likes to read, write and also learn, Google's secret to hire the best. Given a math, 1000 people from phone screen, 4 of them are finally hired. If each 1000 people spend 10 hours time to work on research of Google, that is 4000 hours labor. Julia thinks that it is better to invest time on those 99.6%, share what she studies and help others to move forward on this research.

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