I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google in Jan 2016
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I applied to a senior manager role (while being a Director in one of the Big 4). I had several interviews with the recruiter and a hiring manager. My resume was determined to be a good fit for the role and the interviews went very well. After the last interview the recruiter reached out to and asked if I would be interested in a junior analyst role on the same team I had applied to as senior manager. After I stressed that I had 15 years of work experience, c-suite executive exposure and managing tens of people, the recruiter told me that Google does not consider my first 10 years of experience as relevant experience. If this is the case Google could have determine the misfit in an earlier stage of the process and not waste my time in vain. I declined the recruiter proposal and terminated the hiring process.
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I applied through other source. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Converting from being a vendor/contractor to FTE is almost the same as anyone else's process to become a manager at Google... from what I'm ALLOWED to know about it that is.
Long, drawn out, very little information until you need it according to them.
Extremely frustrating and STRESSFUL.
And if that's not bad enough, sometimes you get passed around from HR rep to HR rep and none of them tell you the same thing. One rep told me roughly about the steps I'll need to go through, others won't say a thing except the next step.
Never before has a process taken SOOOO long (1/4 of a year) AND the HR team been so mysterious about the various stages. There's no IP in a hiring process is there? And if there is, we all signed NDAs.
Never before has any company that I've interviewed with NOT shared the information about each step ahead of time. So frustrating for anyone who prefers to be well informed, and are trying to weigh multiple offers simultaneously.
They promote internally how each interviewer is supposed to provide a pleasant experience whether or not you think the candidate is a qualified one. Google ought to think about the experience from a candidate's perspective.
WORST INTERVIEWING EXPERIENCE OF ALL TIME.
And I'll likely get hired.
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Mine was not an engineering role, so all of my questions were give an example of a time when... this.
I was invited to participate in a phone interview but was repeatedly shuffled around by recruiters until I ultimately gave up and declined to continue the process. Based on what I've heard from others, I'm sure this is not the normal situation, but it definitely soured me on considering whether to apply again.
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