I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google
Interview
Pre-screening with recruiter, potentially to be followed with phone and on-site interviews.
The recruiter was highly unprofessional since the very beginning. Communication was inconsistent and sporadic, feedback non-existent. After an initial response asking me for times to schedule an in-person interview, I got no follow-up response, despite my periodic attempt to reach out via email, until I got a final template-based denial email.
It is concerning that a company like Google manages its screening and hiring process this way, using external and highly unprofessional recruiters to select its talent. Is this a sign that the venerated tech giant has already passed its peak, and is now on its way to an inescapable decline? Maybe my expectations were too high, but in the end, I might have just dodged a bullet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Run of the mill questions with the recruiter, nothing challenging or different from the standard superficial questions you'd be asked elsewhere.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Jul 2016
Interview
Was Referred by a friend. One recruiter call followed by a phone interview with a TPM. 5 onsite interviews. Recruiter was very helpful and gave updates regularly. Results came only after a month after all the committees had approved
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Santa Monica, CA) in May 2015
Interview
About 3 phone interviews followed by an on-site in person multiple day interview. The phone call interviews were primarily base background and a couple of scenario and technical questions. The in person interviews are more of the same thing except for the random senior development engineer who came in and asked me to white board psuedo-code. They really don't want you to give up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give us an example of when you faced a technical and a people challenge at the same time?