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Updated May 19, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Solutions Consultant at Google
Posted May 19, 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 Nov 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 6 months)
Works a lot like Don Dodge says it does (search for that).
Can take a very long time, due to scheduling, uncertainty etc.
Slow, with weeks going by without any information.
Interviews are strange - do your preparation.
I had a few phone screens, and over five face to face interviews (and lunch interviews).
People are very smart, and quite friendly, though not everyone looks at your resume before.
Decisions are by committees officially, though a lot depends on the hiring manager and recruiter.
Whilst the 'tests' were not formal they are implicit in the interviews (e.g. skills, intelligence, personality, culture).
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Manager at Google
Posted Apr 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 months)
I was referred by an employee, which made the process easier, but not necessarily quicker. From the moment the application was accepted to my first telephone interview more than a month passed. The interview was very basic, the HR lady asked some very simple questions regarding my CV and my background, then described the role and their expectations. I was told I would be contacted with further details, but I had to chase them when after two weeks there was no response.
I was told I would be interviewed by a panel, but instead got a single 1-2-1 interview, which in itself wasn't terribly difficult, but slightly uncomfortable as the interviewer was unhelpful and didn't engage at all.
After that I waited a week for feedback which was a mixed bag - some positives, some areas where apparently I had less experience than others. Not surprisingly, no offer.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Apr 12, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 weeks)
I applied to Google via a recruiter. Initial impression is good, the recruiter was really helpful and we quickly agreed on the interview date. I failed at the first phone screen, however.
The phone interview consists of forgettable technical questions such as your favourite programming language, what is the difference between a compiled and interpreted languages, etc. It took about 15 minutes before I was given a simple programming exercise. I did it in 10 minutes but spent the rest of the time fixing bugs, it was really quite embarrassing. I was nervous and too was too busy speaking my mind out loud (as was suggested by many for Google interviewing tips).
Another critical mistake (IMO) was when I was aksed what position I'd like to be in, I said the equivalence of "whatever is good for me". I had a few things I really wanted to do at Google but knowing that with the years of experiences I've got, it's unlikely. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be truthful!.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Google
Posted Mar 28, 2012
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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 Feb 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4 weeks)
I had many interviews and I felt that I answered everything very well but no offer.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Learning and Development Partner at Google
Posted Nov 14, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Sep 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
Received a phone call from recruiter and we had a 30-40 minute interview reviewing my CV and work. She stated that based on the interview, she would recommend I go to the next stage which was a telephone interview with someone from the department the position was based in.
I had the interview with the individual. She was 10 minutes late, and apologised saying she got caught talking to someone in the corridor.
Interview were basic questions focused on my experience, and I dont think she had even prepared for the interview.
She ended the interview saying that she would share her feedback and someone will get back.
No one got back to me with any feedback, despite my e-mails.
All in all totally dissapointed with GOOGLE!
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Quantitative Analyst at Google
Posted Oct 19, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
First a discussion with the interviewer about my phD research, 35mins, he asked a lot of questions about the research top and the methodology; next, some questions related to basic econometrics, but requires deriving formula (e.g. to derive the variance of an OLS estimator from the OLS estimate itself); the next question is "how you evaluate the effectiveness of google mail with respect to persuading people using google more frequently than our competitors, say, yahoo, you can imagine you can get what ever data you could, - tell me what data you would like to collect and how you want to use them, and what potential insights would you expect to get out of them?"
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Oct 12, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
The question was to create a graph class and some traversal algorithms (bfs for example and bfs with a depth limit l). The main idea was to create a list of seen vertices and use a hash function in the graph traversal algorithms to avoid loops (asked by the interviewer) .
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Google
Posted Aug 3, 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 May 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 days)
First off I had a phone interview that lasted for 45 minutes. I also had to write code on my computer and the interviewer was able to see it.
After 2 weeks was invidet for on site interview. Very technical questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Product Manager at Google
Posted Jun 20, 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 Mar 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 months)
The interviews were by engineers on technical knowledge and basic programming skills (e.g. understanding recursion and iteration), as well as product managers who covered business models, strategy, approach to designing products, and a lot of mental modelling and calculation exercises, to see how a candidate breaks down a problem and figures out a rough answer - in one or two cases a precise numeric value was required, not just a description of the variables that would be used to calculate it.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Test Engineer at Google
Posted Sep 13, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
.Asked about Unit Testing on Linux platforms and asked how I might perform unit tests for a particular design.
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Reason for Declining
They wanted someone to spend long hours performing Unit Tests and such like on various software designs. I'm a bit more outgoing and wanted to stretch my capabilities with actually writing real design code
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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