<story><title>How I got a job at Stack Overflow</title><url>http://blog.mattjibson.com/2012/04/How-I-got-a-job-at-Stack-Overflow-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kjleftin2</author><text>&quot;I figured getting a job at Stack Exchange is at least as difficult at getting a job at Google (to which I did not apply, because I thought I wasn&apos;t smart enough)&quot;&lt;p&gt;As a Google engineer who has spent lots of time interviewing and recruiting, this is an attitude that potential candidates need to get over. Google&apos;s a software company that will ask you software questions during the interview. There&apos;s no magic aptitude test. There are no riddles. Just read Steve Yegge&apos;s great blog post on interview preparation and apply! (&lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...&lt;/a&gt;). If you can code and solve problems, you might get hired.</text></comment>
<story><title>How I got a job at Stack Overflow</title><url>http://blog.mattjibson.com/2012/04/How-I-got-a-job-at-Stack-Overflow-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lazerwalker</author><text>&quot;Let&apos;s compare: the first three declined offers took two weeks to respond to me. Stack Exchange took two minutes.&quot;&lt;p&gt;I was job-hunting recently (also looking to move to NYC, no less), and experienced a similar phenomenon: a few of the places I interviewed seemed like they were good matches (smart people working on cool things, my interviews went fairly well), but they took weeks to respond to anything. The team I ended up joining made me an offer less than a day after my on-site interview.</text></comment>