Smart People, Questionable Hiring
Smart People, Questionable Hiring
The benefits, especially the food and fluid hours, are great. So is the fact that everyone around you is incredibly smart.
I think Google is expanding too quickly, and that they are letting in too many people who don't meet the standards.
For example, I knew an employee who claimed that they didn't have any code to show for the past several months of work because their computer's hard drives crashed, yet everyone knows that no one stores code on their own computer; there are version control repositories.
Additionally, I know great people who have not been hired for random reasons, such as failing an interview which required coding in C over the phone.
Change how recruiting works.
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Mountain View, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2016As many have mentioned before, the interview process involves five 45-minute sessions where you're asked to solve one to three problems. Fewer problems mean more in-depth questioning. Some perspective: This is my second time interviewing here. If th
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Mountain View, California, United StatesAugust 1, 2012A recruiter reached out to me. I had an initial call with the recruiter to gauge my interests and my team preference at Google. We narrowed it down to two teams. I had a couple of phone interviews; I guess the first one was on the fence. The first ph
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Mountain View, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 202445 min screening round: - 1 DFS-related question. 3 technical rounds, each 45 min: - Trees - LLD - Sequence-related problem 1 Googleyness round, 45 min: - Situation-based questions - Hypothetical questions Still waiting to hear the feedback.
