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Google: My interview experience

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Re: Google: My interview experience

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Post by akinalci »

yoandy wrote: post #4

At least they give you some feedback in the end. I had the experience to be rejected after an onsite interview at Amazon, and they did not take the time to give a word of feedback, after I even asked for it. I see the past interviews were of great help to you to finally get the position at Amazon. I am looking forward to read your third post. Complimenti collega!

No feedback has been the norm, in my experience. Can be frustrating when the company asks you to invest 4+ weeks on phone screens, take-home projects, and in-person interviews, and then emails you a form letter rejection and cuts contact.

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Post by powera »

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)

Re: Google: My interview experience

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Post by gil_vegliach »

yoandy wrote: post #4

At least they give you some feedback in the end. I had the experience to be rejected after an onsite interview at Amazon, and they did not take the time to give a word of feedback, after I even asked for it. I see the past interviews were of great help to you to finally get the position at Amazon. I am looking forward to read your third post. Complimenti collega!

Grazie :) Getting zero feedback sucks, but as far as I understand it, this is a way to cover their asses from lawsuits. Basically, if you don't get hired, and x gets hired, and you happen to know that your feedbacks were similar, then you could claim that you have been discriminated on. This is especially true if, say, you are black and x is white, or similar.

Re: Google: My interview experience

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Post by gil_vegliach »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #7

I'm becoming convinced that the only way to get into Google is to get in as an intern or new grad if OP studied for 6 months and still didn't get an offer. It doesn't seem that way at other top companies like FB, Amazon and MS from the people I've talked to.

Actually, if you are a Google intern and want to become a full-time engineer, you still need to pass two interviews. While preparing, I found a ton of stuff on Quora, take a look there.

Re: Google: My interview experience

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Post by gil_vegliach »

powera wrote: post #12

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)

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

Re: Google: My interview experience

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Post by [deleted] »

JabavuAdams wrote: post #10
akhilcacharya wrote: post #7

I'm becoming convinced that the only way to get into Google is to get in as an intern or new grad if OP studied for 6 months and still didn't get an offer. It doesn't seem that way at other top companies like FB, Amazon and MS from the people I've talked to.

Meh, just try again in a year. High variance.

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Re: Google: My interview experience

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Post by ronilan »

powera wrote: post #12

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)

Googled the matrix.

Morpheus: he is the one.

Cypher: he is one. Steak please.

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