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Recruiters ask horrible questions. If the recruiter has to ask you a technical question, it will be a bad question, because the recruiter doesn't have the exper

• username90 8y ago
  But the recruiters are told by the SRE team to ask questions like this to candidates before they get a phone interview. I don't see any value in that, but then I don't work as a Google SRE so I don't know what is important to them. It is also possible that they are lacking SRE interviewers so they need to ask stupid questions to get down the amount to reasonable levels.
  • eitally 8y ago
    Another thing that isn't transparent to outsiders is how frequently candidates are shopped around if it becomes obvious they aren't a great fit for the role they were recruited against. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked if I'm interested in candidates that started out as SRE, CE, PM, or other roles. As mentioned, recruiters are paid on hire rate, and it's in their interest to ensure that strong Google candidates are identified and presented to as many potential hiring managers as practical. Additionally, it's common for interviewers to interview for multiple different groups (as an additional tech interviewer, a xfn interviewer, a Googleyness interviewer, etc), so exposure to job requirements can be reasonably broad at the interviewer level. As I imagine many suspect, calibrating interviewers is hard, and always has been, for a company hiring roughly 10,000 people every year.
  • chaosite 8y ago
    Like I said in a different thread, the recruiters need simple questions that they can verify without any expertise.