Google: My interview experience

Re:Google: My interview experience by powera on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:17PM (#14179883)

For those of you not familiar with what a "2.7" means on the Google hiring scale, the rough scale is:

  1 - I will resign if Google hires this person.
  2 - I don't think this person should be hired, but I could be convinced otherwise.
  3 - I think this person should be hired, but I could be convinced otherwise.
  4 - This person should definitely be hired.

(interviewers can use decimal scores)

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Re:Google: My interview experience by gil_vegliach on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:22PM (#14179917)

Right, with 4 being basically impossible to get, and scores being normalized wrt the history of the interviewer.

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Re:Google: My interview experience by sulam on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:30PM (#14179957)

I haven't worked at Google, but I have interviewed with and reviewed feedback from Xooglers, and 4's are not impossible -- but they are rare and you have to essentially be smarter than your interviewer about the particular problem to get one. This can be pretty hard, since many interviewers pick problems that they are extremely familiar with.

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Re:Google: My interview experience by thwd on Sunday April 23, 2017 @04:26PM (#14180280)

On my Google onsite (in Zürich as well), one of the interviewers told me that if he gave me a 4.0, he'd have to argue on my behalf if the hiring committee wasn't sure of hiring me.

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Re:Google: My interview experience by EmployedRussian on Sunday April 23, 2017 @05:08PM (#14180461)

Arguing to HC on behalf of someone I gave 4.0 (which is rare, and which I did give a few times) is something I would do gladly (and I expect most others will do as well).

It's not like going in front of HC is an inquisition or anything -- they are just your peers.

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Re:Google: My interview experience by EmployedRussian on Sunday April 23, 2017 @05:11PM (#14180474)

4.0 is more like: I'll give up my job to get this person hired, she (or he) is that good.

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Re:Google: My interview experience by ronilan on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:24PM (#14179929)

Googled the matrix.

Morpheus: he is the one.

Cypher: he is one. Steak please.

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