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Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 4+ weeks)

They are very into skills. They quizzed me on the phone in one of my 3 phone screens about random knowledge. Eg., they asked me acronyms to see if I knew what they stood for. Very quick stuff so I couldn't look it up on the internet. But very pedantic. Then, on site, they gave me a bunch of hypos - each meeting had 2 people who worked there - and one would ask the question and the other would write down comments on the laptop. Very much had the feel of an oral exam. Very skills/knowledge oriented and little to no focus on cultural fit.

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How would you analyze a certain lawsuit?

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Reason for Declining

Didn't want to move to Mountain View, CA.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2008 in Mountain View, CA (took 3 weeks)

I had two brief interviews with Google's legal department. The first one was a pre-screen with a recruiter, and it lasted about 30 minutes. The recruiter was very nice, asked a lot of substantive questions and scheduled the next round to interview with someone more senior in the department. I had a quick phone screen wiht that person. It was a very rushed interview and seemed immediately obvious that I did not have the experience this particular person was hoping I would have (and which I never claimed to have had, either in person or on my resume). I never heard from them again. Many of my friends and colleagues have interviewed at Google, to varying degrees of success, and I am told that it's an excruciating process. My impression is that they didn't have a clear idea of what kind of experience they were looking for for this particular role, and it had been a posting that had been up for a very long time, which indicates that there is disagreement on what the candidate profile should look like.