I'll ask candidates who aren't engineers how to build a Web crawler. The right answer doesn't matter. I want to hear you think the problem through, because the odds are good that since we're an innovative company, you're not going to know how to do what you're going to be asked to do. You're going to have to figure it out. I want to know that you're okay with ambiguity.
Chuck Salter, "Douglas Merrill (part of The Faces and Voices of Google)," Fast Company, March 2008, p. 77, www.fastcompany.com/fast50_08/google_douglas-merrill.html .
