I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Google (Dublin, Dublin) in Jun 2011
Interview
Applied online and within a few days was contacted to have a phone interview. The phone interview lasted 45 minutes - and consisted of questions as: 1) What's your favorite Google Product, how would you improve it. 2) How would you launch YouTube in Turkey, etc.
Then went in for 3 back to back 45 minutes interviews. It was challenging but my interviewers were nice and I enjoyed the conversations. I found that they often repeated questions but were most interested in ways in my ideas for reinventing products and being innovative. In the end, I did not get the job because I didn't have enough experience in marketing to deliver communications across the EMEA (my background is search marketing on the agency side). I would definitely consider applying again.
10:36 PM
Claude responded: The hiring process consists of a CV screening stage, followed by a behavioral online assessment, and then wraps up with a 30-minute interview with the team.
The hiring process consists of a CV screening stage, followed by a behavioral online assessment, and then wraps up with a 30-minute interview with the team.
They asked what my favorite product was and how I would make it better. The entire interview was mostly centered around the product that I chose and my thinking about it.
5 interviews on-site with different team members.
It was hard to go from a friendly office tour to a deeply technical CS question first thing in the morning! However, it got easier after the first question and everyone was very friendly.
PS- The office is very fun too.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to calculate number of combinations of N numbers
