@polydao: this is what a real Google coding interview looks like - and Google engineers earn $280K-$600K+ total comp Google poste…
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A Twitter thread uses a Google coding interview example to highlight the high compensation at Google and then pivots to how AI agents like Claude Skills can replace entire dev teams, changing the job market.
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this is what a real Google coding interview looks like - and Google engineers earn 280K-600K+ total comp
Google posted this themselves
you are given a binary matrix of 1s and 0s find the maximum area square made entirely of 1s you have 20-30 minutes
most people say “loop over every position and check”
most people don’t work at Google:
the naive solution is O(n⁴) and they know you know it won’t pass the right answer is dynamic programming with a 2D DP table Google engineers are expected to get there in under 20 minutes while explaining every decision out loud the same algorithmic thinking that gets you to $400K at Google is what powers compute agents running inference at scale
if you can solve this by the time you finish watching - that’s a $400K job interview question you just passed
watch the full video below
no signs of slowing down
that’s the filter
simplify first, optimize after
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