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Defining Google

Posted by michael on from the just-google-it dept.

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."

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  1. You win by mg2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're completely correct. Nobody with a degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering would have made a grammatical error while racing to comment first to a slashdot story. Grammar nazi.

  2. Re:Quick Question by ddent · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hi,

    This is your boss, you are fired.

    P.S. You liar!

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  3. "do no evil" yeah right. by nblender · · Score: 0, Redundant
    After RTFA'ing, I got such a sense of 'bullshit' like the whole thing was a PR move... I've experienced first-hand google's "evil"... I run a web-portal that gets a lot of trafffic. We signed up for adsense or whatever they call it these days. Well, one of our users thought he would do us a favor and generate a bunch of fake clicks... Within a couple hours, google had banned us and turned off our site. We spent weeks trying to find a human to plead our case to. Eventually we found someone who said "sorry, we understand it was not your fault but our policy is that you are now banned forever." ... So we tried to sign up with other ad-networks but were rejected by all of them. Seems there's a black-list hosted by Google that all the banner-ad companies subscribe to. It's taken over a year, running our site by getting donations from our users and pitching in some of our own personal money, to find an advertiser willing to take a gamble on us...

    Want to take down a google customer? Send your click-bot over there...

  4. Re:Quick Question by drsquare · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do all the jobs require an appitutude test? Or just the high ranking ones?

    Almost every job does.

    What, every one? Even the bloke who cleans the toilets, or the women in the canteen? You need 14 interviews to see if you can cook bacon and eggs?