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Defining Google
pbaumgar writes "Did anyone catch the 60 Minutes piece on Google this evening? They mention their hiring process a bit in the story: 'For example, Google is hiring about 25 new people every week, and receives more than 1,000 resumes a day. But they're determined to stick to their rigorous screening process. Google uses aptitude tests, which it has even placed in technical magazines, hoping some really big brains would tackle the hardest problems. Score well on the test, and you might get a job interview. And then another and another. One recent hire had 14 interviews before getting the job - and that was in the public relations department.' As a person who recently interviewed with them this past summer (I didn't get the job), I was wondering what others' experiences were like who interview with Google. I had 4 interviews, and it was by far the longest and most interesting interviewing process I've been involved in. I'd love to hear others' experiences in their attempt to get hired."
For some reason I can't see 60 Seconds including a little passage about Brin's splurging action, mentioned in the quote.
Working at google is an easy gig to get. Just get on with the cleaning crew that does their office or something.
Working FOR google is a whole different ball game.
I had a headhunter call me and ask if I was willing to work for $13.00 an hour.
Nah!
They told me they only hire the top 0.000000000000000001% of all programmers. Funny, every other company I interviewed at said the same thing, give or take a magnitude.
Note that while you are saying this, you have your gmail address plain out for everyone on /. to read and abuse. I don't think you really dislike google ...
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... require a batchelors degree ...
My experience has been that those companies that require you to have an education to even apply to work for them do so to ensure that you have balance in your life. A real Bachelor of Science degree includes enough liberal arts, writing, and, in general, thinking in its attainment that companies know you'll be balanced enough to do things like bathe before work, read a good book after work to stay sane, and spell the name of the degree you have correctly. These are just examples - their expectations may be much higher, but the key thing they are looking for is balance.
The /. fortune for this article seems strangely relevant.
To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D. -- B. Duggan
Collage isnt everything. I learnt to make money without a batchelors', and I do'nt need a job at google.
U don't need an education to succeed. Google is ghey!
A real Bachelor of Science degree includes enough liberal arts, writing, and, in general, thinking....
Yep, sounds like a BS degree to me!
Sony ha
- what
did I like about my last job?" When my answers were repetitive, I asked the interviewer if they wanted me to reiterate my answers. how strange.Before I went to ITT Tech I couldn't even spell the word 'engineer'.
Now I are one.
M$ used to be known for their tough interviews and how selective they were about hiring.
In spite of this, they still turn out shitty products.
Life Engine.
oh wait...
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
You goofed on not marrying her...
but the code they write is often poor from a readability, structural, and maintainability perspective
Google uses perl?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
You could do 14 interviews in 3 afternoon rounds.
So that's one flat tire, one sick aunt, and a dentist appointment.
It was like
Me: "What Up?"
Them: "What Up?"
then I pulled down my pants and they were like:
"You're Hired!!"
then I'm like "Respect."
Collage isnt everything. I learnt to make money without a batchelors', and I do'nt need a job at google.
I see you have a CS degree.
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
You could try paragraphs.
Please tell us more about the ethics question they asked you at Microsoft ;-)
Only in the US. Everywhere else, when you take a degree in science, you study... science!
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
You were a pawn, a part of Google's new DPPS system (Distributed Programming and Problem Solving) where smart folks at Google break projects and problems up into small bits and then get "applicants" to write code or solve the problem piece for them. It works wonders! Free use of smart people... Great idea, Google!
Very good, this suggests an algorithm to get hired by Google: do not memorize man pages, assert your opinion when asked (do not try to guess what you think the Google people will like), be truthful about what you know, and play hard to get!
Good is an adjective, well is an adverb.
You are GOOD at faking who you are.
You fake who you are WELL.
One recent hire had 14 interviews before getting the job - and that was in the public relations department.'
This one is so obvious...
1) Engineering company - lotsa dorky engineers who can never get close to a babe in real life
2) PR department - #1 requirement is to be good looking, usually female (able to work as a "booth babe" if the regular unemployeed actress/model/singer/songwriter chicks are no shows).
Those 14 "interviews" was just google management sharing the wealth with the engineers, keeping up morale and all. Maybe even hooking up a couple with some nice poon since everybody knows google stock options are making the long-time employees rich.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
I'm not sure I would want to work for any company that asked me this question in an interview, as it clearly indicates that the culture in the company is for management to pay themselves as much as possible, whilst paying the people who actually do the work as little as possible.
#exclude <ms/windows.h>
Your error was that you sent back an essay. You really should have sent a message "Sorry, I can't read your attachment, could you send me it again in an open format, please"?
Your other error was that you did your Microsoft interviews before your Google interviews. Had you done it in the other order, you could at least have gotten the Microsoft position, especially after telling them how you flunked google ;-)
... or failing that, do anyone know someone apart from Google who indexses usenet?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
My 15 year old friend was interviewed 3 times for a job a the "love sack" store. They sell bean bag chairs. He would just have been a sales clerk. They called him back for a forth interview but he just blew them off because he was sick of it.
Why was a bean-bag store hiring programmers for a now obselete computer language anyway?
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Think, man, think!
There are only so many flat tires and sick aunts one can come up with for missing a couple of hours of work.
Just be sure you keep track of them, when you're on your 8th dead grandparent, people start getting suspicious.
Oh, so that's the other thing you can do with a history degree.
When will Windows be ready for the desktop?
I pity the fool who attempts to learn something from Slashdot.
Your comment is funny when I read it using my internal "Mr. T" voice.
Best. Comment. Ever. Enjoy!
...there are many of us whom don't have one...
...usually looking at degree's...
who, not whom.
degrees, not degree's.
Pretentious is an adjective, pretentiously is an adverb.
If you interview enough people, you can solve all your problems this way.
So is well.
If you fake who you are, I will throw you in this WELL.
I just like the term "furthering".
I thought if one kept furthering oneself he would go blind or something
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