Sundar Pichai was asked about cracking FAANG interviews. His response

Google CEO Sundar Pichai graduated from IIT

Google CEO Sundar Pichai referred to a scene from Aamir Khan’s blockbuster film ‘3 Idiots’ when asked about cracking FAANG interviews. FAANG is the acronym for the world’s best-performing tech companies – Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google – that typically attract hundreds of thousands of applications, only to recruit a handful of top talent.

Recently, Sundar Pichai sat down for a podcast recording with YouTuber Varun Mayya. He was asked if he is aware that there is an entire industry in India dedicated to helping young professionals crack FAANG interviews. “How do you get out of the competitive exam mindset with all these shifts?” Mayya asked. the CEO of Google referred to a scene from “3 Idiots.”

“I think real success comes from understanding things in a deeper way,” he said. “Almost tempted to go back to the movie 3 Idiots or something like that. And like, there’s a scene in there, when they ask Aamir Khan the definition of motor. And like there’s a version which describes what a motor is. And there’s a version where you actually understand what a motor is,” he added.

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Mayya shared a glimpse of the podcast on social media before it is released. “Coming soon. Make sure you subscribe to me on YouTube. You don’t want to miss this,” he wrote.

In a blog post last month, Pichai made a veiled reference to the employees who were fired for participating in a protest against the company working closely with Israel. “ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics,” he wrote.