J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Google (Mountain View, CA) en mai 2012
Entretien
Google uses a unique interview system where candidates interview for a job, not a specific role and are assigned to random employees of the same roll. These interviews run from a script provided by hr.
Questions d'entretien [1]
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The fact you are not interviewing for a specific role or with someone will work with makes these interviews very unproductive in my opinion. Questions are theoretical, attempting to gauge the intelligence of a candidate without a specific goal. I found this much less effective at judging a candidates match than a traditional interview.
I was asked what my favorite product was,
J'ai passé un entretien chez Google (San Francisco, CA)
Entretien
Very self-driven, first of multiple rounds, where I had to take the initiative to arrive at the problem, constraints, approach, solutions, tradeoffs and reasoning behind it in a matter of 30 minutes.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Google (Kirkland, WA)
Entretien
You would have to do a hiring assessment first, then a recruiter screening follows. First round interview with the hiring manager. Majorly product sense and product improvement. The questions were not direct though.
Overall a lot of steps to the interview process. Talked to different people and had opportunities to ask questions. Many different stages which made it a lengthy process overall. Wasn't too bad.