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Xoogler here: If you want to work for Google, my advice is to try again when you get a chance. IMHO, getting an offer is about 50% the luck of the draw as to
by drewg123 10y ago
Xoogler here:
If you want to work for Google, my advice is to try again when you get a chance. IMHO, getting an offer is about 50% the luck of the draw as to what questions you get, and what interviewer you get. If you were close this time, you might get an offer next time.
If it makes you feel any better, people who I knew were smarter and better coders than me got declined, yet somehow I got hired.
BTW, I thought so little of the HR process that I refused to participate while I was there. I did not do interview training, and never did any interviews or committees in my time there.
- shshhdhs 10y agoWhy didn't you participate if there was room for improvement?
- drewg123 10y agoTwo reasons: The idealistic reason is that I didn't want to participate in a corrupt system. AFAICT, an individual interviewer is powerless to change the system. I've I'd have rated every candidate a must-hire, they would have thrown my feedback out. The more practical reason is that I was a SWE embedded in a hardware group. Interviewing (and writing up the feedback) takes time. My spending time on interviewing would not have helped my boss (or his boss), so when I told my boss I didn't want to do interview training, he didn't care. This kind of paid off, because I got to spend enough time doing stuff my boss (and his peers/bosses) cared about that I got promoted while I was there.
- eropple 10y agoThere's definitely a lot of randomness in any Big Tech Company interview process; I don't think Google is particular in that regard. I'm at roughly 50/50 in offers/rejections from companies in that tier (the Googles, Amazons, Facebooks, Twitters, etc.) and I don't feel like my performance varied very much between interviews.