Google doesn't hire losers

Not a fan of googles hiring process. I interviewed in 2015 and never got past the phone screen. I was given a contrived programming problem, which I solved and explained runtime complexity.

The interviewer called me for the screen about 15 minutes late and then he was upset with me because the google doc link I was given to write code was not the one he was opening. Miscommunication on his end.

He struggled to speak English, which I’m fine with, but his inability to communicate made him get more and more frustrated.

The recruiter never called back. Even if they weren’t going to move forward, a simple courtesy call wouldn’t have been so terrible.

This interview was for an entry level engineer. In less than 4 years, I’m a senior engineer now at another top tier tech company. I don’t think my interviewing skills or coding skills were the problem.

Googles recruiting process is half assed.

What a weird post.

> The minor point I want to get across here is that if someone has Google (or any other ${BigTechCo}) on their résumé then it’s something to be interested in but you should also be asking about what led to that

I mean thats great a great goal for interviewers, but the idea that because google was on your resume that what came before must have been interesting seems...self aggrandizing? I'm not sure exactly, but it definitely doesn't follow. New grad hires alone throw a wrench in the works, but so does the Google interview reputation for caring less about the resume than coding questions.

What's the actual point of this post, other than a click-bait title?