I got the final call. I got called about half an hour ago, and the answer was that sadly I wasn’t chosen to be a part of Google’s big picture this time around. The good news, according to the calling person, was that I did do rather well and was very much close to the…
Series: First Google Interview
My odyssey as a software engineer trying to get into Google ;)
The Face to Face
I went in for the face to face. The people were nice and friendly in the office. I did have a fairly nasty incident the night before, though. Needless to say, travel costs including taxi fare were all covered by Google, so I hardly spent a penny. I went out 10 something at night to…
Preparing for the Face-to-Face
As I’ve mentioned before, I am scheduled for an onsite interview for the position of Anti-Abuse engineer at Google. The interview will take place in about 9 days — fingers crossed — and right now I am preparing myself by going over many different materials. So as to leave a legacy of this effort behind,…
On to da Face-to-Face
So, I heard back from my coordinator that I had successfully passed my third phone interview. I was told that the answer would come back in a week — if I was good — and maybe even later. And I was planning to have a month or two of exhaustive study and preparation before the…
Another Phone Interview
In nearly one hour I will be having my third, and hopefully final, phone interview. This one will be conducted with a software engineer from Google Zurich office. By the way, I have been busy prepping so I totally forgot to tell you all that my work location has been decided at last. It is…
On where to go …
So I got a letter saying no positions are open at the Sydney office. After closely evaluating each of my opportunities in the Europe, I have now reached the conclusion that my next best choices are Zurich and Dublin. But I have yet to know whether or not it is actually going to happen. Fingers…
Second Phone Screen
I got my answer in about three weeks. A rather long period of time, based on the normal time reported by other people. But it was good news, so I wasn’t too mad. What had happened was that apparently it was Google recruitment season finale and my recruiter was swamped. So, anyway, I got good…
First Phone Screen
Okay. I had my first phone screen with Google on October 16th. Unfortunately, the phone connection broke down five times and the interviewer (who, incidentally, was called “Anonymous Iguana” in the Google Doc shared with me for the purpose of the interview) had to postpone it. My recruiting coordinator wanted to reschedule for a week…
Preparing for phone screening
As I have previously mentioned, I am currently preparing myself for an interview with Google. To that end, I am bringing my data structures and algorithms knowledge up to scratch by practicing all the important bits from CLRS. To help other people who are, like me, going through the same phase, here is a link…
Job Opportunity
I was recently the happy receiver of a phone call from a recruiter at Google. They had found me through my LinkedIn profile, and were somewhat impressed by my resumé, as it were. I am now offered the chance to take the first stage of the interview, the dreaded phone screening. I am going to…