Yes, I had an onsite (Mountain view) interview with them a few years ago and I was there for nearly 6 hours. There were a couple of tricky algorithmic questions to answer, and what they said was that they weren't necessarily looking to solve the problem, but they were more looking for the thought processes involved in looking for a solution. The strangest part was it turned out that the group I interviewed with was not the 1st group that I had interviewed with, so I was a little confused as to why they had asked me certain questions, which fortunately I was able to answer, but still felt a little odd at the time. It was after speaking to the recruiter later that eased my slight confusion.
However, like you, my language skills are deep but not wide, more into assembler and C, and virtually non-existent knowledge of any of the OOP or scripting languages, but that wasn't a problem, as long as you don't try to B.S. you should be fine. Hope that helps if you have any specific questions, I will try to answer. and no I didn't get the job, but as I said, the interviewers were looking for a slightly different skill-set from mine. Chris On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:05 PM, David Rysdam <da...@rysdam.org> wrote: > Out of the blue, Google contacted me this weekend and wanted an > interview today. My first thought was April Fools, but it seems to have > been legit. > > I passed the first round, which leads me to my question: Has anyone else > here been to the second round of Google interviews? Is it as tediously > grueling as their "guide" docs makes it sound? You have to know a lot > about specific languages (Python and C, in my case, as I know basically > naught of Java and Perl and only the parts of C++ that are C) and > there's all kinds of "puzzle" hoops to jump through? > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > -- It’s a mathematical problem: Zero intellectualism + Zero common sense + Zero willingness to think = Zero tolerance. IBA #15631 USCRA #631 Callsign KB1ZLY
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