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Database Administration at Google
Posted Nov 4, 2009
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2.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2009 in Mountain View, CA (took 4 days)
This was an interview on the IT end, not R&D. They were not prepared on their end, and the interviewer hadn't even read my resume prior to the interview. I was interviewing for a role in operations, something I hadn't done in a few years, and had stressed to the HR rep when first contacted.
The interview consisted of minute details about database administration (certification style questions), things one could easily look up in docs.
I was quite rusty, so it came as no surprise that we didn't move forward.
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Intern at Google
Posted Nov 4, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2008 in Zurich (took 3 weeks)
The interview process was handled very professionally. First I was contacted by a recruiter with whom I had my first screening interview. Next, he scheduled two phone interviews with people from a team where I would be placed. One was a very technical interview, with an engineer. The second interview (with a manager) was more business oriented. I don't remember all the questions, but they were not very difficult. After a week or so from my last interview I received an offer.
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no negotiation.
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Systems Engineer at Google
Posted Nov 3, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2007 (took a day)
Extremely polite and reserved process. Privacy is a concern. I was contacted from a headhunter, indicated by someone from inside the company. I was presented to the company in their office, I was interviewed in several stages by developers from the company. The whole process took about one day.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Nov 1, 2009
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 (took a day)
Being my second job interview ever, I did plenty of research beforehand on the kind of questions I would be asked for an Associate Product Manager position. I learned that Google expects their APMs to have a blend of technical saavy mixed with business knowledge. Thus, I studied both algorithms and considered some common types of business design questions.
As it turned out, my interview turned out to be entirely about the business side of things and putting me in the role of a real world product manager. I highly enjoyed this approach because it really allowed my creativity to flex itself with unconventional answers. I imagine future interviews may include more tests of technical capabilities, but the first interview begins with personal questions followed by strict role-playing.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Product Manager at Google
Posted Oct 25, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2007 in Seattle, WA (took 2+ weeks)
Interview was for a Product Manager position with Google at Kirkland. The two phone screens with people in Mountain View were interesting and exciting; you got the sense you were going to join a company with really smart, energetic people.
The 1:1 interview loop in Kirkland itself was very frustrating and disappointing. The frustration starts before the interview itself: they deliberately won't tell you who you are going to see, presumably because they don't want you to look up anyone on LinkedIn before you meet them. Since the Google office in Kirkland isn't all that big, you can actually figure out before hand who you are most likely to meet, based upon an hour or two of searching through LinkedIn. For a company that's allegedly all about making information accessible, this was the first warning sign that there was a serious disconnect between what they preach and what they practice.
There were the usual IQ-style questions, which don't really measure anything to do with intelligence, much less wisdom. These are the same questions that Amazon and Microsoft ask, so you can look them up on the Web beforehand as well without too much difficulty.
I met a number of people, who ranged from very smart to smart alecs. As anywhere else, the conversations with the really smart people were interesting, challenging in a fun way, and get you motivated to move through the interview process. The smart alecs are all from Microsoft, which is ironic: Google has been hiring a bunch of Microsofties who obviously can't cut their emotional ties to the mothership. All the discussion inevitably leads back to "aren't Microsoft products the greatest?", which is a weird discussion to have sitting inside a Google conference room.
Google has very little interest in your actual experience, which means if you have done a bunch of interesting things over a long period of time, you will be sorely disappointed by the interview process. The interview process is designed by, optimized for, and run by people who are <5 years out of college; if you don't fit that demographic, you are out of luck.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering Staff at Google
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 (took 3 months)
Went through 3 rounds of phone interview. I took about 2 month to get through from the 1st phone screen to the 3rd phone screen. Oral questions usually include lots of performance based analysis, like big O notation on sorting. Some other data structure questions as well. They also ask you use google doc to write program on the fly ( they can see what you write in almost real time).
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Software Developer at Google
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 (took 3 weeks)
Had been contacted from a recruiter through a friend who referred me. After speaking to the recruiter, (general background information) they called me for a 1:1 interview. Spoke with 2 interviewers, each for around 45 mins - some background information, general algorithmic questions, some coding on the whiteboard and they were telling me in the end about their experience working with Google. In the end, got a reply a week later saying that they werent interested.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Oct 19, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 (took 4 days)
A person contacted me after I got friends to upload my resume in India and applied online in the US. Both of them contacted me, the US one first, I fixed a date, and then the Indian chap called me. The next day the US person calls me and tells me I have to choose: I choose the Indian one. Interview schedulued for 2 days away at night 9.30 PST.
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Marketing Manager at Google
Posted Oct 21, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (took 4 weeks)
I interviewed both with a local HR person and an overseas recruiter. Standard phone screen. Asked about previous experiences, GPA and salary expectations. Went to second round of interview. Another overseas person, but a peer. All people were very nice and interviews went well. They gave feedback on why I was not going further with process, a rarity. Overall good experience.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Oct 25, 2009 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 months)
I got an e-mail from a recruiter at Google. Then, I talked to her on the phone about my skills and other stuff on my resume. I had a technical interview over the phone which I passed. I had a simple coding question and some questions on Java, which I said I was mostly familiar with.
My interview process took a long time because I had to go to a couple of conferences after I passed the phone interview.
For the on-site interview, I reviewed algorithms and common questions on java that I found online, which was really helpful since some of things I did not come across since I have been working on Ph.D. without much programming involved.
In general, the interviewers were friendly and not intimidating as some people might think because they are Google engineers. I thought I had done well specially on the algorithms part, but I did not get an offer. The recruiter was nice enough to give me a call and tell me personally instead of sending one of those generic e-mails "...we have no match for you..."
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