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Yes, this is a "dumb" question that "anyone" in tech knows the answer to. You apparently have NO idea how many patently unqualified people apply for a given job at Google. (I worked there for several years BTW.) Lots of people who apply for something like an HR manager or recruiting position will submit a resume based on the fact that they once hired a partner for their lemonade stand. They have no clue about what it means to meet staffing requirements at a global multinational. If you don't filter out someone who doesn't know that 9 men can't make a baby in a month, you end up with an organization that thinks it can -- and fails.
In my department we'd ask similar "leading" questions of candidates. If a candidate didn't have the smarts or spine to point out that the entire question was based on inappropriate assumptions, they wouldn't get hired, especially for a management or leadership-type position. It doesn't matter how earnestly they worked through the assignment that they were asked to.
Is Google's hiring process perfect? Of course not. But I basically don't care what someone has on their resume. Resumes are too easy to fake. I care about how someone thinks and, yes, how they advocate for their knowledge and experience even when there's a lot of pressure for them to conform to a dominant paradigm (like in a job interview).
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"Hey, I said. I know a whole lot of other loads of bullshit that I'd like to bring on board and present at the next conference."
The load of bullshit stopped me
"No," said the load of bullshit, "it's important to save some loads of bullshit for later conferences. It's important to the ecosystem. After all, if we concentrate our loads of bullshit in one conference, we won't have any other loads of bullshit to spread around later."
That's great, I said. Then I killed myself.
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