Never applied because I'm not an algorithm machine. I'm not the kind of programmer they're looking for, or at least their recruitment process looks for. No big deal.
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#62I marked myself as both applied and rejected, and applied an hired. When I was an undergrad I was rejected for a summer internship. Bummer. Then in grad school I was trying to go for a specific internship along with a professor I knew, and it didn't work out for silly reasons, but my recruiter asked if I wanted to apply for a full-time job. On a whim I did, then went through months of interviews. I got an offer and quit school to take it.
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#63I applied to Google and got rejected. Its a pretty interesting story so I thought I'd share: I applied through the traditional on-campus recruiting at UC Berkeley. Got past the first round of interviews on Berkeley's campus and then was taken to the Mountain View campus for 4 interviews and a bunch of events. That night, I got a call saying that the interviewers really liked me and recommended that I be hired. At mos…
> I applied to Google and got rejected.
Consider re-applying? Maybe follow up specifically with each of the people who recommended you, asking for what you could do to bolster your chances?
It sounds like you've got a real legit shot, so if you want it and you're willing to do the massive persistence thing, maybe it'd work out?
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#64I applied and they suspended the hiring for the position indefinitely (after calling my references). That's after I spent 8 hours of my time interviewing there. This was pre-IPO
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#66i don't have a college degree, so i just assumed i'd never even make it past the resume filter.
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#67I applied to Google and got rejected. Its a pretty interesting story so I thought I'd share: I applied through the traditional on-campus recruiting at UC Berkeley. Got past the first round of interviews on Berkeley's campus and then was taken to the Mountain View campus for 4 interviews and a bunch of events. That night, I got a call saying that the interviewers really liked me and recommended that I be hired. At mos…
I'd suggest applying again one day in the future if you're still interested.
There might be other reasons unrelated to yourself as to why the panel decided against you - a cutback in hiring quotas for the short-term, perhaps.
There are a lot of anecdotes online of people getting in on the 2nd or 3rd try, I don't think anyone there views re-applying after a period of time as a bad thing - or your rejection as a permanent sign.
Even Steve Yegge didn't get hired on his first attempt.
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#68Never applied because I didn't want to live in the US. I'm sure Google is very nice and all, but I like decent health care. ;)
How about one of these? http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/locations/
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#69So, at least one person said they were hired by Google. I have a question for those folks... When you applied, did you have any reasonable expectation that you would actually be hired to work there, or was it just on a whim... like a lottery ticket?
Hired in 2006. I was really serious about it. I was a year out of school (C+ GPA) working at a place I knew I didn't want to be. I had just started to grasp the seriousness of my situation as I stared into the abyss of an Office Space-style cubicle farm future. I knew I wasn't up on my stuff after slacking my way through school so I spent months coming up to speed on algorithms, code architecture, best practices, etc.
I wouldn't say I expected to get the job, but I nailed the interview. I've since moved on from Google, but the stuff I learned during those months has been incredibly valuable for my career.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think Google (or really any large company) is a good place to work for autodidacts.
For the record, I now work for ClearChannel (a pretty big company), and it is by far the best place I've ever worked. You do feel the size of the company when it takes 5 separate IT guys to set up your workstation (hardware, software, email, phone, VPN), but as far as the actual day to day operations, I couldn't ask for a better environment. I am the only non-CS dev on the team, but I can hold my own.
I worked in CCRI (Interactive) like 7 years ago. What group are you in?