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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.
No offer
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Feb 2013
Interview
I got contacted by an HR recruiter to set up a first phone interview with a PM, few days after an employee referred me. The interviewer had a non-technical background and 10+ years experience in a non-tech related company.
The questions were fairly conventional:
1) Why do you want to join Google?
2) Design questions:
- How would you design an ATM for elderly people?
- How would you figure out whether there are any problems with the ATM design?
- What is a Google product you love? Imagine you are responsible for one of its features, how would you monitor its use, and how to measure its success/ failure?
3) Market sizing questions:
-How to monetize Google Maps?
-How would you calculate the revenue from the ads on Google Maps?
4) Creativity questions: (took nearly 25 minutes, clearly the most important part for the interviewer)
- Google is thinking of creating an all internet car, brainstorm some interesting use cases!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Google is thinking of creating an all internet car, brainstorm some interesting use cases!
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
