Re: google interview

2013-04-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:15:41 -0400, Chris fj1...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I had an onsite (Mountain view) interview with them a few years ago and I was there for nearly 6 hours. I think that's step 3 or 4. Step 2 is another phone interview with a Google

Re: google interview

2013-04-02 Thread David Rysdam
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:14:58 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Well..., do you want to work at (or for?) Google, now that the suggestion has been planted? If the answer is `no', then you can certainly tell them to bug off--even if they make like they're not used to

Re: google interview

2013-04-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
On several occasions I've heard (from Google insiders) about open positions inside (regional instantiations of) Google and even though the work involved was nothing that required the applicants to have 133+ h@x0r skillzz they still insisted on inflicting that ritual abuse crap on the applicants

Re: google interview

2013-04-02 Thread Mac
They apparently aren't the only ones. Someone I know just went to Dyn Inc. and noted that the IV process was rather extensive. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: On several occasions I've heard (from Google insiders) about open positions

Re: google interview

2013-04-02 Thread David Rysdam
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:30:36 -0400, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: On several occasions I've heard (from Google insiders) about open positions inside (regional instantiations of) Google and even though the work involved was nothing that required the applicants to have

Re: google interview

2013-04-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
[...] guy sounded like he knew what he was talking about, Computer Science-wise. Unless they have a rotating thing where Google engineers have to interview a person every week or whatever, he knew WAY more than he needed for his job. Overall, Google's standards seem high - no argument

google interview

2013-04-01 Thread David Rysdam
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

Re: google interview

2013-04-01 Thread Chris
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

Re: google interview

2013-04-01 Thread David Rysdam
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:15:41 -0400, Chris fj1...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I had an onsite (Mountain view) interview with them a few years ago and I was there for nearly 6 hours. I think that's step 3 or 4. Step 2 is another phone interview with a Google engineer(s). But they sent page after page of