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Google Rejected Max Howell (Creator of Homebrew) For Getting This Interview Question Wrong. Can You Solve It?

Can you solve this Google interview question?

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Dr. Ashish Bamania
Jan 05, 2024
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Max Howell, the creator of Homebrew, once interviewed for a software developer position at Google.

Despite being one of the most phenomenal developers, he was rejected by Google.

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The reason? — He could not solve a data structure question right.

He expressed his discontentment with Google’s interviewing process in his tweet below:

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