Google

Everything went smoothly. There were hard questions. People were very nice. Some coding puzzles were not clear how to solve, like a lot of binary tree and graph traversal questions. Some in-depth C++ questions, such as "What is a virtual function?"

Someone called and asked random stuff about my resume. They found one Java program and grilled me about Java. Then they asked things about Linux when I said I have used it. Another interviewer asked me to work on hash maps. The first part of the inte

I am close friends with current employees at Google, and I personally know the CEO. I figured with that, I could get a job. I was given an interview, but once they discovered I didn't have a college degree from Yale, Harvard, MIT, etc., I was canned