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Google interviewing lore is that there once was a candidate who was asked if they were familiar with MapReduce and replied "MapReduce? Is that like Hadoop?"

Reportedly, this was also a major factor in Google's strategy shift to open-source a lot of their infrastructure (GRPC, Bazel, TensorFlow, LevelDB, etc.)



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