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Technical Program Manager at Google
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 4 weeks)
Complex hiring process consisting of two phone screenings by lead members of the group resulting in an onsite interview. Onsite interview consisted of presentation and additional 1:1 interviews by skillset experts *not* in the group that I was interviewing for. Skillset experts asked a mixture of behavioral and general technical questions. HR was prompt in communicating with me as to process and results, however, was not rushed to complete the process making sure that multiple candidates where interviewed.
Company does look like it would be very good to work for. Dogs were in the office, cafeteria is everything that it's rumored to be, and employess seem to very bright and well spirited - and busy.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Technical Program Manager at Google
Posted Jul 7, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 weeks)
I felt the interview process was pretty standard for larger corporations. A corporate recruiter was the first to reach out to me after reviewing my resume. I submitted for three positions, but only one recruiter decided I might be a match. That was followed up by two 45 minute phone interviews. Do a lot of "interview 101" practice for these two phone interviews. In the interview, they jump right into a scripted scenario. However, it appeared that each person developed their own scenario, so this made it difficult sometimes to understand the context of their questions.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technical Program Manager at Google
Posted May 16, 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 2011 in Mountain View, CA (took a day)
Initially contacted by recruiter via e-mail with job description and whether I was interested in interviewing by phone with the hiring manager. Recruiter seemed a little disorganized, sending e-mails without the proper attachments and providing the wrong time for the phone interview. The actual interview with the hiring manager was not too bad. He first asked questions about my previous work experience. Then, he asked questions about my masters thesis. Next, he started asking questions to test your technical ability. However, since we came from different engineering disciplines he was quite sure about what to ask. Finally, he asked questions to test your reasoning ability.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Technical Program Manager at Google
Posted Jan 9, 2011
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5.0
Very 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 San Jose, CA (took 4+ weeks)
First came the unsolicited approach from the company saying that they are vey impressed with my technical knowledge and presence on the internet and that the company would be interseted in talking to me about a position. I was kind of delighted and surprised that how they have come to know about me. Most of the interviewed I have gone to in my career have been initiated by my application to a particular job.
Then came the technical interview, which consisted of a lot of questions on operating systems, programming languages, Data Center architecture and networking. Since the position was to be for a Technical Program Manager and my background being very technical , it seems the interviewer was satisfied with most of the answers.
Next round of interviews were targeted to assess Project Management skills. I was given a series of questions to assess Project and Resource management skills. Being a highly technical architect I was not able to convince the interviewer of my PM skills. Towards the end the interviewer made me feel inadequate by asking me the definition of Critical path. I was not impresses. I guess the interviewer wasn't impress either, needles to say I didnt get the job.
In hindsight it was the biggest disappointment of my life to lose a chance to work for this company.
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