I looked it up (on Google of course) and it seems like this is one of Google’s recruitment channels.

You get access to a terminal and a text editor:

Here are the commands you can execute:

You have a week to complete each challenge. I’ve done 2 of them so far, and requested the third one - they have been very enjoyable and I’ve already learnt a lot from them.

I’m pretty sure I have literally zero chance of being hired by Google (and I’m not even sure I would want to work for them even if they made the mistake of wanting to hire me), but this has been super interesting so far. And yeah, also a huge time waster, I’ve been thinking about making the solution to the third challenge more elegant and performant all day instead of doing my actual job.

  • zemja@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had that once. I think it used to be much more secret than it is now, and was actually used to hire people for Google. Nowadays it’s more of a fun easter egg. I didn’t bother with any of it, because I couldn’t be bothered with Python or Java.

  • occams_chainsaw@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I got this a few years ago. When I solved most of the questions, it asked for my contact info and Google reached out for an interview… which involved someone watching you code in a google doc, which distracted me so much I bombed