Jun 22We got a Model Y!It’s happening! After ordering a Model Y last year in November, we finally got our VIN, and we are taking delivery on Tuesday 6/21. Allyson has waited a long time for her electric SUV, and thanks to Elon and the team for creating this car. In 1997, I met my…Tesla6 min read
Jun 13Why I WriteA couple things have happened recently where it made sense for me to explain this. It would help clear up some misunderstandings, and also make a lot more sense about my articles in the future. The Innocent When I started writing in mid 2021, it was on LinkedIn. Mostly it was to…Friendship8 min read
Jun 6Bucking the US College SystemOur son Jack is graduating high school this summer. He’s a smart kid. He got a 1430 on the SATs, putting him in the top 97th percentile, but due to Covid interruptions, he doesn’t have top grades and few extra curriculars. …College9 min read
Jun 4The JavaScript solution in the article runs 50% slower than the solution below.101ChrisThanks Chris for this solution. I ran it, and it passed all tests!Thanks Chris for this solution. I ran it, and it passed all tests! IMO, the art of interviewing is extracting as much information about the interviewee in that one hour as possible. …2 min read
Published in CodeX·May 31Google Storytime: How to Engineer a PromoFor this story I’m going to talk about a particular engineer on my team. How they joined my team, how they got promoted, and how they’ve blossomed since. We will call this engineer Jay. Those inside Google will know who this is. A Quiet Beginning Jay joined my team back in 2017 after…Technology6 min read
Published in CodeX·May 23Google Storytime: My First InterviewI joined Google in 2007. Although Google had a small office in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, my wife and I both decided that it’s best to work at headquarters in Mountain View, California. Wouldn’t you want to work at Redmond HQ for Microsoft, or Seattle HQ for Amazon? …Google4 min read
May 16The 31,680,000-Foot Journey31,680,000 feet is 6,000 miles, the distance between Taipei, Taiwan, where I was born, and Seattle, WA, where I live now. Last week I took my younger son Alex to get pizza for dinner. In the car we talked about his choice of culinary arts for summer class. I told…Movies5 min read
Published in CodeX·May 10My Google Front End Interview QuestionsTraditionally, Google likes to hire for generalists. Everybody gets the same set of interviews for coding, algorithms, system design, and Googley behavior. Our expectation is that once an engineer joins Google, they can change teams, learn the programming language/domain, and fit in almost anywhere. Aside: according to Google code tools…Programming7 min read
Published in CodeX·May 3My Google Coding Interview QuestionAt Google I’ve done over 200 interviews and evaluated over 50 hiring packets. One thing is clear, and that interviewing is hard. Signals are all over the place. Both the interviewer and interviewee have less than one hour to do their best. Sometimes, for any number of reasons, we get…Programming11 min read
Published in CodeX·Apr 27My Reaction Article to Googler Blind Reactions to My ArticleWe must go deeper… — I was enjoying my morning coffee when an old Google teammate pinged me. “You’re popular!” They said, then shared this link with me. Apparently my article about Why I Left Google has gone slightly viral on Blind. https://www.teamblind.com/post/google-pm-leadership-rocks-and-credits-to-elon-for-this-xoogler-fire-jm8gjTDe I clicked the link and got an error. Blind is an anonymous…Google11 min read
