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My Google phone screen circa 2013 went something like this:

    for (i=0; i<NUM_QUESTIONS; i++) {
      Interviewer: [Technical question]
      Me: [Answer]
      Interviewer: That's right!
    }
Followed by:

Interviewer: You do understand that the position you have applied for is a managerial position, and that you're going to be dealing with schedules and budgets and not anything technical. Is that really what you want to do with your life?

Me: Um, no, not really.

Interviewer: OK, well, have a nice day then. Good bye.



?? But you had worked there before, right? Didn't they remember you?


> you had worked there before, right?

Yep. :-)

> Didn't they remember you?

If they did, they hid it well.




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