Re:Get that job at Google
by henning on Thursday March 13, 2008 @12:56AM
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I've heard that Google has really mixed, often shitty interviewing and this just confirms the hearsay.
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I've heard that Google has really mixed, often shitty interviewing and this just confirms the hearsay.
My experience doesn't match that. I decided against accepting Google's offer, but I can't find any fault with my interviewers; while there were a few instances of "I know this is a lame question, but I'm supposed to ask it", most of the questions I was asked were quite interesting -- and my interviewers were clearly ready and eager to learn when I presented them with solutions which were better than the "official" solutions they expected.
That would be the positive half of the "mixed." I thought my interview process was not so hot, personally. Not horrible, but not at all as good as yours.
Re:Get that job at Google
by whacked_new on Thursday March 13, 2008 @09:12AM
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I don't know Google's hiring process, but your experience is probably very atypical -- they came to you, and not you them, correct?
My experience confirms that. I didn't get the job, which could be an argument that I'm bitter or something, but I told the first, second, and third recruiter I talked to that I probably wasn't interested in the position offered.
Anyway beyond the "I'm not interested/come in anyway" the interview process was pretty broken. The first two interviewers somehow were given the resume of someone who had the same name as me but wasn't me (or something, it was never clear how they ended up with the wrong resume).