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I have recently turned down another Google recruiter like this as well. Position in a domain that is not really my key field and only, maybe, after their crazy
by janoc 10y ago
I have recently turned down another Google recruiter like this as well. Position in a domain that is not really my key field and only, maybe, after their crazy interviewing process.
I am sorry, but I don't have time nor money for days of this coding test/trick questions nonsense, especially as I would have to travel for the interview abroad. I am 40 years old, have plenty of experience, scientific publications on the subject, code in public repositories available and even can supply personal references if someone wants to call those people. If you want to treat me like a kid fresh out of the school expect the same treatment back.
And even if you do all this, you are not guaranteed to get any specific position - when I have asked the recruiter what kind of position would I be interviewing for - junior, senior, developer, team leader, whatever, I was told "this is not how we work - if you pass the interviews, then we will assign you to a team that we think best fits with your experience". So, in other words - go through the grueling interviewing process and finally discover that the position may not even be relevant for you, completely wasting everyone's time.
No, thank you. I have better things to do with my time.
- zzalpha 10y agoSo, in other words - go through the grueling interviewing process and finally discover that the position may not even be relevant for you, completely wasting everyone's time. Oh but you see that's where you're confused. You see, you aren't interviewing for a position, in order to pursue your interests or advance your career. You're interviewing to work at Google. And thank your lucky stars if they accept you! Because OMG Google!!!
- chiefalchemist 10y agoLol. How true. They have more or less one cash cow product (ads) that prints them money. The rest are just self-indulgent hobbies subsidized by that cash cow. And that's grounds for self proclaimed greatness? Sure, Google does some cool stuff. But their (self-proclaimed?) greatness is overrated. To. A. Fault.
- chrshawkes 10y agoAnd that cow is blocked and ignored by many millennials.
- marssaxman 10y agoIt isn't just the Snake People, either!
- chiefalchemist 10y agoYup. And Google+ was supposed to help mitigate that risk. Look how that worked out. What's REALLY stupid is Google had a (crude) "social network." It's called YouTube. All that genius and no one said "let's take advantage of the YouTube foundation and trick it out of bit..." And in the meantime FB streams more video than YT. Come on now. That's fucking hilarious in the context of treating people like circus animals and call it an interview process.
- adwww 10y agoLikewise. Sure, I'd like to work for Google. But I also make good money Not working for Google, and getting non-google jobs is a simple matter of picking up the phone and calling one of a handful of recruiters I know. I guess I'll never know if Google think I'm talented, and I'll never know what I'm missing not working there. I can live with that!