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I do enjoy this author's flagrant disregard for Google's NDA they require you to sign and promise not to discuss the interview questions. I'm curious if they'll
by tobyjsullivan 13y ago
I do enjoy this author's flagrant disregard for Google's NDA they require you to sign and promise not to discuss the interview questions. I'm curious if they'll enforce it.
For what it's worth, my one experience with Google recruiting last year was the polar opposite. They were curious and professional, of more knowledgeable recruiters I've dealt with, and timely in scheduling interviews. I had my first and only phone interview within a couple weeks if contract (which I needed and used to go through the extensive list of prep material they provided). Then I had an onsite interview a couple weeks later. Bam. Done.
- freework 13y agoI did a phone interview with Google last week. I was given the exact same counter problem as mentioned in the article. I can verify that I was not asked to sign any NDA at any point.
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- tobyjsullivan 13y agoThe phone interviews are not but the in person ones are. I'm sure it has to do with the fact that you are onsite and may oversee confidential information but they explicitly stated to me that it covered the interview questions.
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- Me1000 13y agoPhone screenings do not require signing an NDA (just a "we explicitly ask you not to share the questions you're asked"), but if they bring you on site you will be asked to sign one.
- zxer 13y agoExcept when not. When I was interviewing they didn't make me sign one. They rejected me for the original position, but later occasionally called me with some alternate options. These calls usually went like: - We would be interested in having you at/as ... but before the specifics, you signed an NDA, right? - No, I have not. - Oh, then good luck, bye.
- mikeash 13y agoThey're doing it ever so slightly wrong if they just take your word for it like that!
- mosesschwartz 13y agoWhen I interviewed they did not ask for an NDA during the phone interviews, but they did have me sign one before the on-site interview. For what it's worth, I had an overall positive experience interviewing with Google.
- icedchai 13y agohow would they enforce it? not hire him? send him a naughty letter?
- throwaway86 13y agoBreach of a nondisclosure is breaking a contract. Civil tort. Lawsuit. And so on.
- icedchai 13y agoI understand that can happen. But I doubt, very much, that it would happen over something as trivial as disclosing information about an interview.
- throwaway86 13y agoYou asked how they would enforce it. You did not ask for a likely outcome, you asked for possible outcomes. If you want specific answers, ask specific questions.