Comment by grahamar

As someone who struggles to learn by rote as opposed to learning by practical means and has been both hired and declined by the Google recruitment process. I can't help but agree with his sentiment.

The recruitment process (at least for experienced engineers) should be little more then "can I work with this person". The 6 month probationary period that follows the hiring process should be used for "can this person do the job well". But that's just my experience, and it seems to have worked well.

Regarding the same academic questions everybody gets asked in every development interview, I feel Einstein said it best with "[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."