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Good Read – Job Interview at Google

By HSB 

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!

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2 Responses to “Good Read – Job Interview at Google”
  1. Hi! Thanks for linking to my article. Could you please fix the link? You currently have a broken link.

  2. Koichi says:

    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 :)

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