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Software Engineering at Google
Posted Oct 1, 2009 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)
NDA makes this impossible to describe beyond - met with 5 engineers over the course of a day, each had a different technical/programming question. It would be easy for a recent grad or anyone who slings code 24/7. Not a good indicator of actual skills or abilities. Google interviewing at Google - there are plenty posted.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Sep 30, 2009
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5.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Had one phone interview, then met on-site with a small number of developers during a single day. All interviews were highly technical, focused on algorithm design, improvement, and ways to parallelize computation.
One interviewer was discourteous and impolite; when I misinterpreted a request, he was quite rude in pointing out that my answer was of a wholly different format than he was expecting. We did not get along, and as a result I did not fare terribly well. In every other interview, I believe I did very well or better.
Also, I really got along well with every other interviewer. In my limited experience, the reports of rude or dispirited Google employees are quite exaggerated.
I strongly suspect that a single mediocre report is enough to scuttle an interview, regardless of the others. My advice: Be prepared for people you don't get along with (as with any interview!), ask questions if there's even the hint of vagueness in your task, and have fun.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Sep 28, 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 Sep 2009 (took 2 weeks)
I interviewed at Google for a full-time Software Engineering position after graduation.
As I informed the recruiter that I had a pending offer already, they skipped the initial interview and brought me in for a full-day interview.
I met with 5 engineers: two 45 minute interviews, an hour lunch, and two more 45 minute interviews.
There was very little discussion about past experiences and my resume. All 3 out of the 4 interviews involved a programming question that I had to solve on the white board.
The last interview was an abstract systems design question.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Intern at Google
Posted Sep 21, 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 Apr 2009 in Dublin, County Dublin (took 4+ weeks)
Applied online, after which it took about a month for Google to get back to me regarding interviews. First interview with recruiter who did a background check after which she informed me of two additional interviews: the interviewers were from the same market; one of them was a potential team member and the other my potential manager. Manager asked me more interesting questions about my views on the industry and Googles strategic outlook, while the team member asked me more elementary questions about past experiences.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Background Check.
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Interaction Designer at Google
Posted Sep 15, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 May 2009 (took 2 months)
The entire process is very long. From initial contact to the actual interview itself, it took about 2 months. The interview itself is not bad. It starts with a portfolio review, then a series of 1-on-1. What's special about my Google interview experience is that they like me to step into their shoes and try to solve some of their current interaction design problems. I don't think you're expected to actually solve everything, but at least it give them a way to know your way of thinking.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Sep 17, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2007 (took 1 week)
Was recommended by a former colleague and called for a phone screening by a recruiter. Recruiter asked a few relatively basic technical questions. Was then contacted for another more in depth phone interview. I believe this was still with an HR person, not anyone from engineering. They asked more in depth technical questions. Was able to answer all but one of them but eventually answered it with some hints. Was not ever called back.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Sep 16, 2009
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5.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2009 (took a day)
HR was a bit slow, and didn't get back to me with an answer until I followed up a few weeks later. Interviews were technical, very interesting, and challenging. They were computer science / software engineering problems that did not have obvious immediate answers. They want you to first state a naive algorithm, and then see if you can make it more efficient. Having a few of these interviews in a row was very draining, I definitely slowed down at the end.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Sep 17, 2009 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 weeks)
The recruiters are very proactive and professional. The interview is mainly about design, problem solving and brainstorming. The questions are not the classical programming ones I saw from websites, but one definitely has to know the basics such as sorting and complexity to come up with good answer.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Quantitative Compensation Analyst at Google
Posted Aug 24, 2009 — 3 of 3 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 Jul 2009 in Mountain View, CA (took 4 weeks)
I had 3 phone interviews and an Excel exercise. Overall, I thought the whole interview process was cold, awkward, and misleading. The first phone interview with the recruiter was fairly routine. Go through my resume, talk about my background, why I want to work at Google, current salary, etc. The second and third phone interviews were technical screens. The second phone interview consisted of technical questions including SQL joins and talking about some research I did for school. Before the third phone interview, I was instructed to do an Excel exercise that would be discussed in my third phone interview. The third phone interview consisted of more technical questions and brain teasers, but no mention or discussion of the Excel exercise. Thus, I felt mislead as I prepared for this instead of going over brain teasers. The recruiter also said to go over Googles products, business model, and proxy statement which were never discussed in either of the technical phone interviews.
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Database at Google
Posted Sep 3, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2009 (took 3 weeks)
It was very dry experience. Interviewing person was very rude. He asked few simple questions and thats it. I have a feeling that they know whom they want to bring on board already. When I asked what requirements I did not meet, I never got a response back.
I will never go through the interview process again at Google. So much for the brand name.
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