I have to ask this, do you see yourself as the norm at Google throughout your whole employment time there?

In my experience as both interviewee and interviewer, there is a lot of power struggles involved. Just like any other interaction betweeen engs like code reviews.

OK so of the 5 interviewers, 2 did this. Others seem to not care. Do you know if "must compile" is a google wide rule that some interviewers just ignore?

Same happens at Amazon. They want syntactically correct program that will actually compile and run on a compiler, but to verify that they click a photo of what you've written on the whiteboard to actually try that on the computer themselves. :|

Someone above him might have decided that’s part of the process.

I am starting to think that most of those decisions are made by burocrats who have no accountability on the actual results, specially at Google where they can afford to lose great candidates left and right.

I'm a moron and did something stupid not too long ago that would be perfect for this.

I'm too lazy to find my actual code but here's the gist:

C# but might working in Java/etc too *

Create an Image of some size

loop hight of image

   loop width of image

      Bitmap b = cast Image to bitmap since Image doesn't have the pixel method

      get pixel value or whatever looks legit 

   end

end

This creates a new bitmap for EVERY pixel in the image. If the image is large enough and the system is 64 bit bad things happen. On Lubuntu this code burned through 8 GB of ram in seconds and was well on its way to eating all the virtual memory before I forcefully shut it off.

Maybe this is a Linux issue but it hard locked my system. I couldn't switch to a different terminal or anything.