How and more importantly why the process works.
How to get a job at Google, interview questions & process
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Re: How to get a job at Google, interview questions & process
#2This interview process sounds like searching for reasons to reject a candidate
Re: How to get a job at Google, interview questions & process
#3> We set impossible goals and achieve many of them.
I suppose they keep setting impossibler and impossibler goals...
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#4> Google offers are very competitive, some might say generous, and very thorough.
Interesting, I've always heard Google doesn't pay very well. Similar to game companies, they can take advantage of the fact people really want to work there and know candidates will accept lower pay because of it. I've heard that from several Google employees past and present. Perhaps things have changed?
Re: How to get a job at Google, interview questions & process
#5> Google offers are very competitive, some might say generous, and very thorough. Interesting, I've always heard Google doesn't pay very well. Similar to game companies, they can take advantage of the fact people really want to work there and know candidates will accept lower pay because of it. I've heard that from several Google employees past and present. Perhaps things have changed?
Google didn't pay well in 2007. A friend and me went very far in the recruitment process and it stopped as soon as we explained we expected more money.
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#6This interview process sounds like searching for reasons to reject a candidate
They are very clear that they feel it is better to have false negatives rather than false positives, I don't think this should be a surprise.
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#7This interview process sounds like searching for reasons to reject a candidate
Given that the final hire rate is less than one half of one percent of received resumes, they can probably afford to.
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#8I interviewed with Google for a SRE position earlier this year and their screening process sure is tedious: Lots of grilling on obscure UNIX trivia and data structures/algorithms but nothing on the broader picture, like how to write good, maintainable software. I like nerding about graph traversal algos as much as the next guy, but not for 90 minutes on the phone after a long day of work.
I'm sure the screening process filters out duds but it's bound to generate a lot of false negatives as well. People that would otherwise be a perfect fit but who get fed up with the interminable interviewing or simply don't do well under that kind of stress (for me it was both).
Re: How to get a job at Google, interview questions & process
#9> Google offers are very competitive, some might say generous, and very thorough. Interesting, I've always heard Google doesn't pay very well. Similar to game companies, they can take advantage of the fact people really want to work there and know candidates will accept lower pay because of it. I've heard that from several Google employees past and present. Perhaps things have changed?
Google didn't pay well in 2007. A friend and me went very far in the recruitment process and it stopped as soon as we explained we expected more money.
Meaning that you received offers?
Re: How to get a job at Google, interview questions & process
#10I interviewed with Google for a SRE position earlier this year and their screening process sure is tedious: Lots of grilling on obscure UNIX trivia and data structures/algorithms but nothing on the broader picture, like how to write good, maintainable software. I like nerding about graph traversal algos as much as the next guy, but not for 90 minutes on the phone after a long day of work. I'm sure the screening proce…
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