Was this long ago? Or is the engineering team really small compared to the company as a whole? Google says they’re ~2400 people, seems really weird for the most senior technical person in an organization of that size to be conducting coding tests with rank and file candidates.
No this was not long ago and the engineering team was large. The company was well over 2K people when I interviewed. And yes it is very weird to have the President of Technology giving coding tests during an interview loop. I met with 6 other senior engineers 4 of which had already gone over coding. Apparently this is his thing though. The purpose of this seemed to be for him to demonstrate how smart and hands-on he was. Their in house recruiter actually called me the day before the interview and said he had to "prep" me for my interview with this person.
