Google Software Test Engineer Interview

Interviewed May 2007 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 days)

I heard that the interview process was tough to get into Google. Who knew that simply scheduling one would be just as daunting. For a basic phone screen, I was rescheduled 3x, and usually at the last minute. In fact for one of them, the interviewer forgot, and I was rescheduled.

The phone screen wasn't too hard, but they wanted to make sure that interviewers had a solid grasp of web technology and terms like URL (what it stands for, how it works), DNS, what HTTP stood for. While good questions, they had nothing to do w/ testing techniques.