I've heard many, many similar accounts. I had two phone screens (the first was "inconclusive" my inside referrer says: 1st screener didn't ask right questions, or I was on the borderline, or sometimes they do 2nd to confirm). Mine were entirely on par with things on my resume and areas I claimed to be experienced in, or relevant to computer science.
ex: make writes to a fixed log atomic. however, I this guy was more of a 'regular' guy as I asked each screener at the end "what's a typical day for you" and I got the "google doesn't encourage long hours, but rewards productivity; and many do long hours to do that, but not me." he was a family man.
I got the idea the 2nd screener took a more balanced view of life either.
Believe me I'm not some google fan-boy, but I went into the process if anything biased against their process, and am turning around. It's only downfall: they want it standardized for every engineer so it takes so long. they know it. basically they are trying to scale start-up style hiring and it's hard.
maybe, though, i'm the exception and the poster is the rule? or vice versa? I don't have enough data points to say
-vertigo^3
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ex: make writes to a fixed log atomic. however, I this guy was more of a 'regular' guy as I asked each screener at the end "what's a typical day for you" and I got the "google doesn't encourage long hours, but rewards productivity; and many do long hours to do that, but not me." he was a family man.
I got the idea the 2nd screener took a more balanced view of life either.
Believe me I'm not some google fan-boy, but I went into the process if anything biased against their process, and am turning around. It's only downfall: they want it standardized for every engineer so it takes so long. they know it. basically they are trying to scale start-up style hiring and it's hard.
maybe, though, i'm the exception and the poster is the rule? or vice versa? I don't have enough data points to say -vertigo^3