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Google is hot right now. Its stock price may have taken a bit of a hit lately, but new offerings like GrandCentral continue to revolutionize the Internet, and with its Android phone operating system poised to conquer the mobile world, things are looking good for the company. Naturally, then, the brightest tech employees want to get in the door, and Google's interview process is notorious for being lengthy and arduous. It's no surprise, of course, that not all applicants are welcomed with open arms. Some of those who got the cold shoulder treatment are posting their experiences online for the benefit of those who might interview with the Big G in the future.
The stories range from the mundane, like an interviewer with a thick, "Chewbacca-like" accent that was hard for the job candidate to understand ("I'm obviously partially retarded," says "Rod"), to tales of wonderment, such as one applicant who was too dazed by the lunch offerings to put together a comprehensive interview. Then there are the truly disturbing stories, such as that of one applicant whose military background wasn't taken too kindly:
"The interview was going swimmingly until I met up with one interviewer who was apparently anti-military. Using the Google "Do No Evil" mantra as a pretense, he asked me how many people I'd killed when I served. When I explained to him that I was MI, he then asked if I could estimate how many people were killed because of the intelligence I'd gathered. The implication was I was either an evil, efficient killer or an incompetent one - a real no-win situation."Good luck, job seekers of the future!
From Silicon Alley Insider
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsJUDYMar 26th 2008 10:28PM
I can see why he didn't get the jobs. If you have to use the word"retarded" you definately have some learning problems. Using retarded to characterize anyone is so low class.
duzacmMar 25th 2008 10:53PM
maybe these job interviewers ought to get drafted.
HopeMar 26th 2008 8:56AM
Ed: Here you go again blaming liberals. We, liberals, are the ones who fight for your right to open your mouth so you can spew hate and garbage proving each and every time what a bunch of hypocrites neo cons are. This post is not about liberals but about Google. Now if you were to only use your God given brains to think for yourself, you would know that but I guess neo cons like you have been so brain washed that it is always easy for you to continue to parrot the same old pathetic recycled shit. Why think when you can keep parroting ??????
JCMar 27th 2008 1:42PM
I left my position in HR years ago. It does not take a degree to realize that HR employees are merely the puppets of corporate administration. Sounds like this HR employee was competing with the veteran applicant rather than interviewing him. He could have sent the typical rejection form in the mail if he felt the applicant was not qualified. Instead, he used the interview as a means to vent his own superiority complex issues.
jdhovlandApr 2nd 2008 6:28PM
To all those commenting on the anti-military stance. You are playing the game telephone. You are taking what a rejected applicant said about his rejector verbatim. If true it could have been a question to gauge his response to that stimulus, or the interviewer could have been an ass. Regardless, before you start calling Google this huge anti-American monster, get the facts straight. (No, not employed by them, yes a fan-boy, would go work for them in a heartbeat [need any Senior SQL engineers?])