Google AdWords Associate Interview

Interview Details – The most ridiculously drawn out interview process ever. I went through 14 interviews, realized people who work at Google are not all that brilliant, it's mostly self-aggrandized employees. As a non-engineer I found the salary offer insultingly low, lower than average pay for someone with that level of education and when I tried to negotiate salary they were not willing to budge. It took me three months to get passed all the interviews and an incredibly lengthy process that involves passing your papers on to Mountain View even if your interviews are in another country. Incredibly bureaucratic and the perks are not that great, my recruiter kept talking about the free food and massages to compensate for the low salary and it felt like their tag-line was "we're Google -- of course you want to work for us!". My advice, don't buy into the hype if you're a non-engineer, you can do better!

Reason for Declining – Salary was too low -- the interviews were not difficult but incredibly time consuming and laborious and a very slow and bureaucratic process to push through a lot of paper work, after passing the 14 interviews i had to do an "executive summary" which is basically summing up all my skills, this is after two writing assessments and another written test prior to the interviews -- just a massive load of time wasted and not worth the salary offer! Also the stock options were very measly and unimpressive! So much for buying into the hype and their aggrandized self image!

I would say the interview process was difficult because of the time consumption and frustration of pushing through and keeping the energy up for so long with a disappointing end offer! Formed a very bad opinion of them as I realized they are a massive soulless corporation that does not value the worth of an individual who is non-Eng! also, they really only care about money "don't be evil" is a fallacy, it's only about the bottom-line.