The interview was really bad. The interviewer was fifteen minutes late because she was looking for a phone to call me. No phones available at Google?

She asked three decent questions, but I don't think she was prepared at all for the interview. I believe she picked these questions online quickly:

• The classic: What happens when you type google.com in the browser? This is a dumb question that everyone knows the answer to.
• What is the difference between GET and POST in forms? Another dumb question.
• Programming: Write code that translates an alphanumerical phone number into a valid phone number. For example, 1(800)GO-FEDEX to 18004633339 (her example).

I could tell she picked that question online very quickly and probably didn't have a real answer herself. As I was trying to solve the problem, she was picking on little syntax, which even great programmers don't pick up on the first try.

With this question, it takes a long time to simply check that the string is long enough and not too short. Then she said you can simply get the alphanumerics, i.e., 1800GOFEDEX. But of course, that doesn't work because someone can write: 1800()GOFEDEX, 18(00)GOFEDEX, 1800(G)OFEDEX, 1()800GOFEDEX, 1-(800)-GOFEDEX, etc.

So, going through these cases alone takes a long time, not ten minutes, especially when she was late. As I pointed out how crazy it would be to write actual code, she said time was over. She definitely didn't have any clue how that problem would be solved.

What happens when you type google.com in the browser?

What is the difference between GET and POST in forms?

Write a program to translate an alphanumeric phone number to numbers only.