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Are you allowed to Google things in a Google interview? I don’t think I was allowed to!

How would that even work? You’d just Google for the answer to the brain teaser and find it because there’s only so many brain teasers out there.

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I'm referring to a programming interview, where you are writing code with the candidate -- not a brain teaser.

I'm not sure there's much of a clear line between the two. Google asked me to solve what was really a brain teaser, but solve it using code. Don't think I was allowed to Google anything.

That's fair, in that situation there's probably a valid case for disallowing use of a search engine. Whether or not that's an effective interview is another story :)

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