I don't remember the exact details after 20 yrs but I think EVERYONE got a coding loop no exceptions at the time by default.

And they were still in the era where's they'd just keep interviewing you until they "got enough signal" so people would be back 3 and 4 times.

I don't know if he had to do technical interviews (I'd imagine not) but what he described was Eric Schmidt approaching him and asking him to leave MCI to work at Google. They asked him what his title should be and he (I think he) jokingly suggested Internet Pope. They eventually settled on Chief Internet Evangelist.

When Google hired Guido van Rossumm, they put him through the same trials they require of every employee who is thinking of contributing Python code. Then they yelled at him for making Python inefficient.