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Updated Feb 13, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Account Strategist at Google
Posted Jan 21, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took a day)
There have been 4 interviews onsite and 2 via phone. Usually they ask questions about leadership experience, role related knowledge and experience, your personality and hobbies and of course they do a lot of brain teaser.
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Negotiation Details
When you´re graduate there is no room for negotiations. Otherwise I would say they are generally open for negotiations
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Specialist at Google
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 3 weeks)
condescending, self-absorbed, close minded and very subjective.. after three interviews, I'd say Google is probably a nice name on the cv, but lack of humility in the process...as opposed to another company's interview where I left the interview room with just one dream working for them (another online company).
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Online Media Associate Intern at Google
Posted Jan 18, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 4+ weeks)
You first go through a CV check, if you are selected then you get a short 15-20 minute interview from someone in HR. The questions are pretty basic and are just to see if they match your CV, you can communicate well and would fit well in Google and the team. The next round is 2 interviews with the managers of the team where you apply for. These interviews are 20-30 minutes long and the questions are a bit more specific to the role (advice: research the team, the industry and be passionate about Google). The questions are basically to see if you fit in the team and in the company. The internship position lasts for 10-12 weeks and is great to experience what it would be like to work at google. A lot of people say that the internships are more interesting and enjoyable than the full-time position since you get to work on an interesting project. The full-time position is more of a sales/support job.
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There was no negotiation.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Sales Analyst at Google
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 2 months)
Very nice process, they seem to care more whether you are a salesman and whether you are 'a google person' than really creative or innovative. Don't focus on learning about Adwords, just make sure you're able to sell yourself (or anything).
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Inside Sales Representative at Google
Posted Nov 8, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 2 weeks)
Initial interview with a recruiter to ascertain interest in the position, willingness to work in Inside Sales. Followed by a 15 minute mock sales pitch with member of Inside Sales Department and 15 minute competency based interview.
Has to send information 24hrs ahead for sales pitch - who I was, who the client was, position in company, size of company, size of client company etc.
They want you to be structured and tease out responses from interviewer by asking probing questions. I fell down on this as I picked a service that wasn't readily identifiable and spent much of the call explaining it and neglected to dig out their position in company (although you send this in as part of info request) etc.
Overall its a fairly transparent process if not a little arbitrary.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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IT Field Technician at Google
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 4+ weeks)
The process started with a set of 2-3 highly tecnical phone interviews, all with people that were currently in the same position I was applying to.
Then a set of final interviews on site, which actually weren't on site because I couldn't travel, so they arranged a video conference to do the interviews.
The last round of interviews were with 2 people that were currently in the same position I was applying to, and also 2 managers.
The topics of the interviews were general knwoledge of networking, linux command line, windows and Mac OS X configuration issues.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Team Lead at Google
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took a day)
Initial Phone Screen, then 30 min phone interview which was all about why Google, why leave your current job now, what do you know about Google. then 3x 1Hour Interviews face to face, scenario based questions, logic questions like how many people will take a particular bus today
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Account Manager at Google
Posted Sep 19, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 2+ weeks)
First of all I got a Phone interview (approx. 30 min), which was really general. I had to talk about myself, my previous experiences and so on. This interview was not so hard, no tricky questions.
After that I went to Dublin in order to be interviewed by the team I was potentially join. I've got 4 interview in a row, all of the interviewers asking almost the same questions. Until the last interview I guess I did OK, but the last one was quite hard : I was sitting in front of the manager of the business unit. The guy made me wait 20 minutes (we where in the same room) coz he had stuff to do on his computer. In addition he was really cold, not friendly at all... And then I started asking me really tricky questions...
Overall, I was a great experience
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Team Lead at Google
Posted Aug 1, 2011 — 3 of 3 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took a day)
I was inquiring for another position within another company, but somehow the recruiter must've slipped my CV to Google, for which I wasn't really interested to work for. I don't like hyping. Anyway, a week after my inquiry about this other role one male recruiter contacted me that I for some reason was selected for an on-site interview with Google. This kinda surprised me as I was only inquiring and certainly not for Google.
When I got in, I just ignored the bought coolness of the interior (which looked more like the lunch cafeteria in my university than a canteen) because that is happiness you can buy. Instead I focused on the attitude of the diverse employees running around. It struck me that the people I saw were not half as happy as was hyped - friends and acquaintances told me plenty of times how "cool" it was to work for Google and how happy everybody was to simply be part of it. Even the recruiter advised me of this. No such thing there. The ones I saw looked amazingly neutral at best and generally overstretched or overworked.
In the interviewing room came the first surprise: they didn't even know my name. Furthermore, they didn't even have a hard copy of my CV (!!) at hand, nor did they know my nationality and a couple of other things that one can expect from professional recruiters. I was asked to walk them through my CV, which was awkward as they didn't have a copy of it at hand. One of the women said they would have a look at it later, after the interview was done. An indication to me that they really weren't that much interested in me. That made two, as I wasn't very much interested in working for them anyway.
Ran them through my CV, which took a little bit of time as I have 20 years of experience in IT. Meanwhile they asked standard questions as why I left a certain position and so on. They showed me that they were impressed by my achievements. Then they asked me of which I was most proud of during my career. I explained them what it was and they were visibly impressed. After that the mandatory worst experience, of which I informed them.
After that came a couple more standard questions and what kinda annoyed me were the "worse case" questions they asked me. What would you do if a team member doesn't perform? After the solution I gave, they came up with "and what if it still doesn't work". I explained them that I usually work according to the three strike principle.
After a few more standard questions followed the "Google" question: how much people would use a certain application in my country of origin. I guess I didn't answer this one the way they wanted it. But who cares. After that the interview was over, instead of the 25 mins it had been 45 mins. And after being promised feedback, I walked away from the building, knowing that I would never set foot in it again as the absence of a hard copy of my CV, not knowing my name (and asking about it a few times during the interview) nor my nationality, was too unprofessional for me. I've held thousands of interviews throughout my career and I just got a really bad impression of they way they conducted my interview.
Needless to say that I of course did not get the promised feedback. After a week of hearing nothing, I decided to give the recruiter a call as I hadn't received any contact details of the interviewers. After three attempts I finally got hold of the recruiter who was "surprised" that Google hadn't call me back, but that I had been unsuccessful. To my question why she hadn't bothered contacting me, she said she thought Google would contact me. Yeah right, and I am sure when asked, Google would say they thought the recruiter would've contacted me. Simple fact is that recruiters can't be bothered to contact you if a company doesn't want to hire you - amazingly they are so proactive before the actual interview...
Not getting an offer from Google was ok with me as I didn't intend on working there in the first place. I don't need all that hyping as I am much too down to earth for that. The free food gets stale after a while and the whole thing seems to me more like a cult than what it actually is: just another place to work. So don't be fooled by all those great stories - it's just another workplace. Nothing more nothing less.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Product Manager at Google
Posted Aug 8, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Dublin, County Dublin (Ireland) (took 2 days)
Applied online and within a few days was contacted to have a phone interview. The phone interview lasted 45 minutes - and consisted of questions as: 1) What's your favorite Google Product, how would you improve it. 2) How would you launch YouTube in Turkey, etc.
Then went in for 3 back to back 45 minutes interviews. It was challenging but my interviewers were nice and I enjoyed the conversations. I found that they often repeated questions but were most interested in ways in my ideas for reinventing products and being innovative. In the end, I did not get the job because I didn't have enough experience in marketing to deliver communications across the EMEA (my background is search marketing on the agency side). I would definitely consider applying again.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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