I submitted my resume through a friend who was working for them at the time, he ended up quitting because he couldn't stand the people he was working around and his boss wouldn't do anything to help the situation. I didn't actually find out about this until after I had an in person interview.
I got an email from one of their recruiters about 5 months after I submitted my resume and she asked if I could do a phone interview for a data center technician position. Basically I would keep the hardware up and running, replace ram, hard drives, etc. I got a full position description, gave my salary requirements, and set up a time. I did the phone interview after my normal work hours, they were very flexible which was nice so I wouldn't have to do it on company time. At first it was general questions about how would you troubleshoot these situations like a machine keeps turning off on it's own, why? Or the machine won't power on, why? etc. Easy stuff. Then he started asking stuff I didn't know such as how to check the hard disk speed in Linux, how would I change user permissions if I wanted a group to access a file, but an individual in that specific group to not have access without creating a new group. I just said I didn't know, but I always look for help online if I come across something I didn't know. He said those answers were fine.
3 weeks later I got another email asking for an in person interview so I thought sweet, I might actually get to work for Google if they want to see me in person. So I set the day, had my sister help me pick out a new shirt and tie (I'm partially colorblind and was looking to make a good impression at least in my wardrobe). I drove an hour and a half to meet with them at a hotel conference room after asking for a 'vacation day' at work. I got there 15 min before my scheduled interview time and went into the hotel and said I was there for an interview with Google and they pointed me to the conference room. I waited for 45 minutes before anyone from Google showed up. Turns out they took a long lunch and forgot about me. Great. Oh well whatever, let's get the interview started.
Fun stuff now, I was told I was going to interview with one person, I ended up getting interviewed by 6! Two teams of three. Not what I expected, but I went with it. Half way through the first group one of the interviewers happened to mention 'Ok so why did you apply for Data Center Technician Temp'. I said 'whoa wait, temp?' and he said 'yes, we are temp to hire'. I told them that was first time anyone had mentioned the word temporary to me and they all got a puzzled look on their face. Even the job opening on their website didn't say temporary, it said permanent. That soured me. I went on with the rest of the interview. At the end I felt it was a huge waste of time and a few weeks later I got an email saying thanks for your interest in working at Google, but your background doesn't match the position. Which was their way of telling me I wasn't qualified for whatever reason.
All in all I felt the whole interview process was shady.
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I coulda sworn those 2 Bon Jovi songs were from the 90's... It's My Life was around '99 iirc. They should get some Steve Vai songs on there ;)
I submitted my resume through a friend who was working for them at the time, he ended up quitting because he couldn't stand the people he was working around and his boss wouldn't do anything to help the situation. I didn't actually find out about this until after I had an in person interview.
I got an email from one of their recruiters about 5 months after I submitted my resume and she asked if I could do a phone interview for a data center technician position. Basically I would keep the hardware up and running, replace ram, hard drives, etc. I got a full position description, gave my salary requirements, and set up a time. I did the phone interview after my normal work hours, they were very flexible which was nice so I wouldn't have to do it on company time. At first it was general questions about how would you troubleshoot these situations like a machine keeps turning off on it's own, why? Or the machine won't power on, why? etc. Easy stuff. Then he started asking stuff I didn't know such as how to check the hard disk speed in Linux, how would I change user permissions if I wanted a group to access a file, but an individual in that specific group to not have access without creating a new group. I just said I didn't know, but I always look for help online if I come across something I didn't know. He said those answers were fine.
3 weeks later I got another email asking for an in person interview so I thought sweet, I might actually get to work for Google if they want to see me in person. So I set the day, had my sister help me pick out a new shirt and tie (I'm partially colorblind and was looking to make a good impression at least in my wardrobe). I drove an hour and a half to meet with them at a hotel conference room after asking for a 'vacation day' at work. I got there 15 min before my scheduled interview time and went into the hotel and said I was there for an interview with Google and they pointed me to the conference room. I waited for 45 minutes before anyone from Google showed up. Turns out they took a long lunch and forgot about me. Great. Oh well whatever, let's get the interview started.
Fun stuff now, I was told I was going to interview with one person, I ended up getting interviewed by 6! Two teams of three. Not what I expected, but I went with it. Half way through the first group one of the interviewers happened to mention 'Ok so why did you apply for Data Center Technician Temp'. I said 'whoa wait, temp?' and he said 'yes, we are temp to hire'. I told them that was first time anyone had mentioned the word temporary to me and they all got a puzzled look on their face. Even the job opening on their website didn't say temporary, it said permanent. That soured me. I went on with the rest of the interview. At the end I felt it was a huge waste of time and a few weeks later I got an email saying thanks for your interest in working at Google, but your background doesn't match the position. Which was their way of telling me I wasn't qualified for whatever reason.
All in all I felt the whole interview process was shady.
How many Corvettes and Porsche's do you see going down the road compared to Accords? ;) I'd say Accords outsell both combined.