I stumbled upon an interesting and lengthy article about job interview experience at Google. I certainly know, even if you feel job interview went well, its tough to get job at Google. It’s because they have very high standards.
………. The position I was interviewing for was a Google SRE. SRE stands for Site Reliability Engineering. Site reliability engineers (SREs) are both software engineers and systems administrators, responsible for Google’s production services from end-to-end.
There were eight separate interviews total. The first three were over the phone (phone interviews) and the remaining five were on-site. The first interview was with the recruiter and was not very technical but the other seven were very technical…… click here to continue reading job interview at Google …
One interesting fact I saw – they flew the interview candidate from different country. Not just within U.S. I never heard of company flying candidates out of the country for job interview. That’s the quality and standard of Google’s hiring process. I think last year, when Google profit was less, they said it was due to hiring process that took a hit on earnings. Now I know why!
Related posts:
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
Hi! Thanks for linking to my article. Could you please fix the link? You currently have a broken link.
That’s crazy – You’d think that maybe the first 3 could be via telephone, the next three could be via video conferencing, and maybe the last one could be live. That’s a lot of flying right there. Hopefully they bulk ship interviewees