Being a professional (though the tag is just 1 month old), I will try to be polite in this analysis. Any statements perceived by others as angry outbursts are unintentional and will NOT be regretted.

Today early morning, someone from Google, Bangalore called me up and politely (yeah, he was polite!) told me that they have a problem with my blog post in which I have put up my interview questions and told that they would appreciate if I delete it. I was not in a mood to ask him why and all that and just replied (politely) that I will do so.

I have indeed deleted that post, but let me ponder over my thoughts !

First of all, I did not sign any form of agreement or whatever for attending their interview. Its just sending a resume in early December last year and a telephonic call in April and a Thank You letter few days later. So I cannot understand what policies the guy talked about. If I had known before that I should not tell others what they asked me in the interview, I would have squarely refused to attend it. (And If my memory serves me right, Google does not even possess a hard copy of my resume.)

Second, Amazon had not prevented me or my friend Rave who got an offer there a few months back from putting up the interview questions on our blogs.

Third, Google is not interested in determining the content of the 6,740,000 results i got (even if an abnormally huge number of results, say 90% of these results are of the type “Please someone tell me what will be the questions that would be asked in google interviews”, the rest is still a huge number) when i searched for “Google Interview Questions”. Perhaps they are concerned about my blog stats !! Surely, my blog post on Google’s interview questions is a major hit, if i go by the blog stats given by WordPress.

Fourth, I think Google should not forget how it became a verb !! Information Retrieval is the foundation on which Google survives and I could not understand why they prevent information sharing.. If they are going to prevent anyone from letting the interview questions out, its an IMPOSSIBLE task !! Even if they are a giant in the market and make MS kneel in front of them, they cant prevent the Internet Users from sharing information.

To conclude, I think this quote by Franklin P. Adams will do good: “I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”