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A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
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Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I am good enough to be a contractor designing the systems - but apparently not good enough to be an employee. Or not good enough to mess with the contract they have with your employer?
I bet this is the explanation. It's certainly one of the few reasons I can imagine why they'd give and then revoke an offer.
It could be the no-poach agreement.
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#13Sadly my tiny linode box can't handle the traffic currently. See article here: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://www.mkrecny.com/?p=76
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I am good enough to be a contractor designing the systems - but apparently not good enough to be an employee. Or not good enough to mess with the contract they have with your employer?
Completely possible, it i just very infuriating not knowing why.
Non-poach agreement.
Even if it isn't technically poaching, outsiders don't know that, and it can start fights. Easier for them to avoid the situation altogether. Non-poach agreements are illegal, so they won't tell you that this is why.
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#15Heh. I appear to be blacklisted from google. I interviewed 4 years ago over a 3 month period, after which they said they were excited to send me an offer. The next day, they called me back and said, no, they were not going to be giving me an offer. Recently, I applied for a position I thought I was perfect for - and the google recruiter contacted me asking to talk about the position. He asked if I had ever applied to…
I know that Google solicits feedback from their employees who may have worked with you in the past. Is it possible that you pissed off a former co-worker who now works at Google?
I don't believe so, I have a good professional reputation, and I have good friends at google.
Frankly, I believe it to be my lack of a PMP certification....
I dont know why I havent tried for it...
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#16Heh. I appear to be blacklisted from google. I interviewed 4 years ago over a 3 month period, after which they said they were excited to send me an offer. The next day, they called me back and said, no, they were not going to be giving me an offer. Recently, I applied for a position I thought I was perfect for - and the google recruiter contacted me asking to talk about the position. He asked if I had ever applied to…
Another possibility is that they're not expecting you to live long enough to justify the investment. Google has developed very statistically accurate methods for determining how much longer an individual will live, but it's very computationally intensive to compute and so defer that filter to the very end of the interview process.
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#17Sadly my tiny linode box can't handle the traffic currently. See article here: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://www.mkrecny.com/?p=76
I assume you're using WordPress - are you using any type of caching plugins? W3 Total Cache is what I currently use on the smallest Linode server available (512MB). I'm running Nginx and Debian 6.
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#18On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being reserved only for individuals who are wiretapping Google's offices, what is your degree of certainty that this phone call was actually from a Google employee?
Yeah this reeks of a headhunter trying to scrape up resumes to present to Google.
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#19Sadly my tiny linode box can't handle the traffic currently. See article here: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://www.mkrecny.com/?p=76
I assume you're using WordPress - are you using any type of caching plugins? W3 Total Cache is what I currently use on the smallest Linode server available (512MB). I'm running Nginx and Debian 6.
Sadly running apache without any caching plugins.
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#20On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being reserved only for individuals who are wiretapping Google's offices, what is your degree of certainty that this phone call was actually from a Google employee?
Yeah this reeks of a headhunter trying to scrape up resumes to present to Google.
Any yet the individual claimed to be an engineer at Google