Biting The Google That Tries To Feed You

Expect to read more of these anecdotes in the coming years. Finding out that he was a potential new Google hire, Jeff Barr received an elaborate set of parochial pre-interview instructions, which prompted the following (very clever) response on his blog…

“So, before this amazingly comprehensive phone interview I am supposed to study the technical, competitive, and business aspects of their searching, mapping, blog searching, blogging, calendaring, document storage, finance, groups, social networking, and feed reading products.

Sure, and after I have done this and they invite me down, will they expect me to create dark matter from stuff found in the supply rooms, or to invent a unified field theory while standing at a whiteboard? Maybe I can do all of this while balancing on a Segway and sipping an Odwalla, just to make it challenging. Strange.”