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A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
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Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#2On 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?
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#3Heh.
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 google before, and I told him I had. I related a little about the experience and what happened.
He put the phone interview on pause and said he was going to go look into that and talk to the previous recruiter.
Radio silence for over a week. I sent him an email asking if my previous interview experience precluded me from interviewing there...
He said he was still collecting data.
Then he called me last friday and said that after reviewing the position with the hiring manager, they decided not to move forward with me any further, but he had no information as to the reasoning.
That was that.
But here is what I find both hilarious and infuriating: in my current company, a small design firm of just 10 people, we design a lot of google infrastructure projects; their datacenter fiber plants in the EU, NC, projects for gmail and other infrastructure projects they have going on.
I am good enough to be a contractor designing the systems - but apparently not good enough to be an employee.
I wonder if they are reading my emails or something ;)
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#4Heh. 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…
Wow - Can't believe they turned around and reneged on your offer one day later..yes the irony of you designing google infrastructure projects is amazing : )
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#5Heh. 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 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?
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#6Heh. 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…
How much exposure do you have on the net? Often someone will pull the plug on a process because they found some social chatter with your name on it that they didn't like, whether or not you were actually involved or not.
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#7Heh. 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 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.
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#8Site appears to be down - anyone snag a cache? Looks like google didn't
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#9Heh. 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 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.
Re: A hilariously bad phone interview with Google
#10Heh. 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?