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Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

#41

Post by btilly »

zackattack wrote: post #38
gojomo wrote: post #7

Is YouTube exempt from Google's lengthy indirect hiring processes?

someone from youtube recently reached out to me about some stuff and as an aside commented that i'd also probably make a good google employee. but my college GPA (2.8 or so) pretty much rules out that possibility. too bad.

Who told you that your GPA rules you out?

If you have actual experience, nobody should care about your GPA. Or even whether you have a college degree. Lots of people at Google don't. If you're still in college it might be an issue, but if you have something to point to you still have a shot at getting into the interview process.

The interview process is hard. I won't lie to you about it. Even if you belong at Google, there is a good chance of not making it through on the first try. But your odds are infinitely worse if you don't even try.

Speaking personally, I didn't apply to Google for years because the core Google languages are Python, Java and C++, while my professional experience was all in Perl. Eventually I did apply, and discovered that it never would have been a problem. And in fact I'm doing most of my work in internal languages that nobody comes here knowing.

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

#42

Post by mey »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #39
djacobs wrote: post #21

Congrats! Worst part of the article: "Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."

Which means that the YouTube CEO is scouring Hacker News.

Which I hope wouldn't surprise anyone.

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

#43

Post by oomkiller »

btilly wrote: post #41
zackattack wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

someone from youtube recently reached out to me about some stuff and as an aside commented that i'd also probably make a good google employee. but my college GPA (2.8 or so) pretty much rules out that possibility. too bad.

Who told you that your GPA rules you out? If you have actual experience, nobody should care about your GPA. Or even whether you have a college degree. Lots of people at Google don't. If you're still in college it might be an issue, but if you have something to point to you still have a shot at getting into the interview process. The interview process is hard. I won't lie to you about it. Even if you belong at Google,…

Internal languages? Why would Google make new languages when there are already many great ones already available? It sounds counterintuitive and inefficient. Please answer if you can.

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

#44

Post by teaspoon »

oomkiller wrote: post #43
btilly wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who told you that your GPA rules you out? If you have actual experience, nobody should care about your GPA. Or even whether you have a college degree. Lots of people at Google don't. If you're still in college it might be an issue, but if you have something to point to you still have a shot at getting into the interview process. The interview process is hard. I won't lie to you about it. Even if you belong at Google,…

Internal languages? Why would Google make new languages when there are already many great ones already available? It sounds counterintuitive and inefficient. Please answer if you can.

Most of the "great" languages were at one time internal to a company or research group.

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

#45

Post by [deleted] »

nerfhammer wrote: post #31
jrockway wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably not. But when the CEO knows someone who he wants to hire, the rules can be bent. Remember, a lot of people working at Google got there via acquisitions. And they are afforded all the rights of "normal" employees that had 10 weeks of interviews (including moving to a "normal" team). I assume Google's official hiring process is mostly for recent college grads, because they don't have any experience (or code) t…

Acquisition employees still have to go through a round of intense interviews in order to continue through the acquisition

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Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

#46

Post by zackattack »

btilly wrote: post #41
zackattack wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

someone from youtube recently reached out to me about some stuff and as an aside commented that i'd also probably make a good google employee. but my college GPA (2.8 or so) pretty much rules out that possibility. too bad.

Who told you that your GPA rules you out? If you have actual experience, nobody should care about your GPA. Or even whether you have a college degree. Lots of people at Google don't. If you're still in college it might be an issue, but if you have something to point to you still have a shot at getting into the interview process. The interview process is hard. I won't lie to you about it. Even if you belong at Google,…

to be fair, nobody explicitly told me that gpa rules me out. but after i revealed my gpa, the youtube employee who reached out to me suggested that my resume would be discarded if my gpa was below 3.5, and even then, they unofficially shoot for 3.7. i only graduated in 2009, and as a self-taught programmer who graduated with a Psychology major, i have almost no training in computer science (i couldn't tell you what a bubble sort is; i find abelson and sussman totally uninteresting save for the box and pointer diagrams). but i did at least make it through real analysis and abstract algebra for fun and i do have a unique combinatoric proof of a summation identity to my name.

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

#47

Post by bconway »

nerfhammer wrote: post #31
jrockway wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably not. But when the CEO knows someone who he wants to hire, the rules can be bent. Remember, a lot of people working at Google got there via acquisitions. And they are afforded all the rights of "normal" employees that had 10 weeks of interviews (including moving to a "normal" team). I assume Google's official hiring process is mostly for recent college grads, because they don't have any experience (or code) t…

Acquisition employees still have to go through a round of intense interviews in order to continue through the acquisition

And the number of acquisitions that Google has started and not completed because of an employee interview (excluding something like outright fraud)?

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

#49

Post by RyanMcGreal »

oomkiller wrote: post #43
btilly wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who told you that your GPA rules you out? If you have actual experience, nobody should care about your GPA. Or even whether you have a college degree. Lots of people at Google don't. If you're still in college it might be an issue, but if you have something to point to you still have a shot at getting into the interview process. The interview process is hard. I won't lie to you about it. Even if you belong at Google,…

Internal languages? Why would Google make new languages when there are already many great ones already available? It sounds counterintuitive and inefficient. Please answer if you can.

http://golang.org/

Re: Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

#50

Post by brown9-2 »

zackattack wrote: post #46
btilly wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who told you that your GPA rules you out? If you have actual experience, nobody should care about your GPA. Or even whether you have a college degree. Lots of people at Google don't. If you're still in college it might be an issue, but if you have something to point to you still have a shot at getting into the interview process. The interview process is hard. I won't lie to you about it. Even if you belong at Google,…

to be fair, nobody explicitly told me that gpa rules me out. but after i revealed my gpa, the youtube employee who reached out to me suggested that my resume would be discarded if my gpa was below 3.5, and even then, they unofficially shoot for 3.7. i only graduated in 2009, and as a self-taught programmer who graduated with a Psychology major, i have almost no training in computer science (i couldn't tell you what a…

Just apply. Try. It's worth it.

The stuff about the GPA seems like a giant myth. I don't even remember my college GPA and I had a few rounds of interviews at GOOG.

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