Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
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Re: Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
#2> "Google used it to identify me before I had even applied anywhere else"
Add another item to the list of anti-trust charges Google is facing around the world.
> "they respected my privacy"
No they didn't. Not even close. But if Google is full of people with these notions I understand the major disconnect Google has with privacy regulators outside the US.
Re: Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
#3> "Google used it to identify me before I had even applied anywhere else" Add another item to the list of anti-trust charges Google is facing around the world. > "they respected my privacy" No they didn't. Not even close. But if Google is full of people with these notions I understand the major disconnect Google has with privacy regulators outside the US.
And just regular not-regulators people that are starting to get scared about this.
Honestly, this video is supposed to be an ad for Google:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olFEpeMwgHk
But when I watch it, it feels more like a trailer for Terminator 16 to me.
Re: Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
#4"Aaaaannnnnnnnnnd you're fired." Just kidding. But if none of his friends (including Google employees) knew about this, maybe they (Google) intended for this to be not known. I hope he didn't shoot his own foot by blogging about it. :-)
Re: Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
#5Google used it to identify me before I had even applied anywhere else
At a point where the author would be in a weak negotiating position because he wouldn't have other offers to take (besides staying in his current job, but applying for a new job indicates he wasn't entirely happy with that.)
and they made me feel important while doing so.
Doing a search that matches a regular expression is all that it takes to make you feel important? Really?
Re: Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
#6Are they only doing this if your IP belongs to a well known university? I'm sure lots of people here are googling programming topics everyday, and I'd assume it would've come up before this.
Re: Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
#7"Aaaaannnnnnnnnnd you're fired." Just kidding. But if none of his friends (including Google employees) knew about this, maybe they (Google) intended for this to be not known. I hope he didn't shoot his own foot by blogging about it. :-)
Seems like in that case they would tell him to keep it quiet, instead of leaving a trap that wastes their hiring effort and reveals their secret.
Re: Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
#8"Aaaaannnnnnnnnnd you're fired." Just kidding. But if none of his friends (including Google employees) knew about this, maybe they (Google) intended for this to be not known. I hope he didn't shoot his own foot by blogging about it. :-)
If you visit the URL google.com/foobar it won't do anything unless your google account has been offered the challenge. Presumably random searching wouldn't even activate it, you'd need to be in the right country etc.
"To log in, you have to have logged in before. Confused? Search on...[google.com]"
Re: Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
#9I could have sworn I saw a few mysterious ads on corkboards around MTV internally recruiting people to work on a project like this last spring, just before I left Google. I never followed up to try to figure out what it was, so I can't be sure, but it could definitely have been this.
Re: Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job
#10So first of all this is not "a secret" at all and you don't need to be "special" to do it. And of course you don't get targeted personally but they do an automated/anonymous match on your search history. It's just one of many inbound HR/recruiting funnels and it was featured in an internal newsletter that went out to all of Eng some time ago.
Second, they tell every applicant that openly discussing the interview process (esp blogging about it) will get you disqualified/blacklisted from any future positions at google. So if you have posted this before your first day and didn't discuss it with your recruiter/hr person at the G, it was probably not a very smart move.
PS: It really isn't too hard to get into their interview process. If you create a github account and push some code one of their recruiters will probably approach you after a while. You can also just send them your CV and I am pretty sure you get the same process/treatment as anybody else.