Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says secret to cracking Google interview lies in this 2009 Bollywood blockbuster!
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently shared some insights into an age-old question that has perturbed engineering graduates: How to crack the interview at a FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google) company?
In an podcast hosted by YouTuber Varun Mayya, Pichai was asked if he was aware that there is a flourishing industry which focuses on helping hopefuls impress recruiters at FAANG companies, and if he was willing to spill secrets to cracking tough interviews.
The Alphabet CEO cited a scene from the 2009 blockbuster Aamir Khan-Kareena Kapoor Khan blockbuster ‘3 Idiots’ as an ingenious way of displaying technical skills during an interview. “I think real success comes from understanding things in a deeper way,” he said. “Almost tempted to go back to the movie 3 Idiots or something like that. And like, there’s a scene in there, when they ask Aamir Khan the definition of motor. And like there’s a version which describes what a motor is. And there’s a version where you actually understand what a motor is,” he said.
In the Rajkumar Hirani directorial, in a scene, Aamir Khan’s character Ranchordas Shyamal Das Chanchar aka Rancho is asked to define a machine, to which he gave a simple, straightforward answer, instead of a rote-learned one.
Last month, Pichai urged employees not to protest in office premises and disrupt the peace and tranquility of the office. While he did not refer to the anti-Israel protests at Google directly, he wrote that the workplace is not an environment for political activism.
