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When I applied to Google, it consisted of a phone call with a recruiter, a 45-minute technical phone interview, and a one-day visit to the office consisting of

by raldi 13y ago

When I applied to Google, it consisted of a phone call with a recruiter, a 45-minute technical phone interview, and a one-day visit to the office consisting of four 45-minute technical interviews and casual lunch. I believe my experience is fairly typical; have you heard otherwise?

mattzito 13y ago
They may have streamlined, or it may be dependent on the type of position you're applying for, but in the case of a few of my friends it involved multiple days in mountain view from NYC, many in-person interviews in NYC, and so on. I think in two of the cases I can think of it was a ~3 week interview process.
- raldi 13y ago
  What year was that? I applied in 2011, and I've been conducting interviews for Google ever since, and I think the most in-person interviews I've ever seen on anyone's slate was 5. Occasionally, a second phone interview is necessary, but usually only if something went wrong in the first one.
  - busterarm 13y ago
    Someone I know went to 5 different in-person interviews with Google over a period of something like 3 months. Each time there would be a 2-week or so limbo before talking to someone at Google again. Then after 5 interviews, nothing. Total silence. This was 2009 or so and was for some sort of infrastructure management position.
  - mattzito 13y ago
    This was back in the mid-2000s. I think both of them did way more than 5 in-person interviews - it was probably 2 phone, 3 in-person NYC, 4-5 in-person in MTV. Both were relatively senior positions, so perhaps they're the exception, or perhaps it's been streamlined since then. I'd buy either.
stevekemp 13y ago
I started down the route of phone-interviews (two) before being told that I'd need to relocate to either Ireland or Switzerland, and that I'd need several in-person interviews to proceed further. (I'm a system administrator, rather than a developer, although I'm a competent programmer in my own right.)

by raldi 13y ago

mattzito 13y ago

They may have streamlined, or it may be dependent on the type of position you're applying for, but in the case of a few of my friends it involved multiple days in mountain view from NYC, many in-person interviews in NYC, and so on. I think in two of the cases I can think of it was a ~3 week interview process.

raldi 13y ago
What year was that? I applied in 2011, and I've been conducting interviews for Google ever since, and I think the most in-person interviews I've ever seen on anyone's slate was 5. Occasionally, a second phone interview is necessary, but usually only if something went wrong in the first one.
- busterarm 13y ago
  Someone I know went to 5 different in-person interviews with Google over a period of something like 3 months. Each time there would be a 2-week or so limbo before talking to someone at Google again. Then after 5 interviews, nothing. Total silence. This was 2009 or so and was for some sort of infrastructure management position.
- mattzito 13y ago
  This was back in the mid-2000s. I think both of them did way more than 5 in-person interviews - it was probably 2 phone, 3 in-person NYC, 4-5 in-person in MTV. Both were relatively senior positions, so perhaps they're the exception, or perhaps it's been streamlined since then. I'd buy either.

stevekemp 13y ago

I started down the route of phone-interviews (two) before being told that I'd need to relocate to either Ireland or Switzerland, and that I'd need several in-person interviews to proceed further. (I'm a system administrator, rather than a developer, although I'm a competent programmer in my own right.)