Re: Kindly help for an interview with Google on python django

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is something I found back in 07 when I was offered a chance to
> interview there. I searched for it again, and there are links to it,
> but they don't appear to work. My situation was the strangely similar
> to Peter's - I also got an unsolicited call from someone at google who
> said they saw my resume, and "they wanted me." I hadn't applied at
> google, I wasn't looking for a new job, AND we were living in Santa Fe
> (where we still live). Odd.
>
> My Interview at Google
> by Peter Abilla
.........


my experience with google was different. i too was called by
surprise, without applying anywhere. I flew to their Zurich office
(from Perú) and spent a whole day with interviews. they were all
test-like, sometimes on the whiteboard, sometimes just chatting over
the table. didn't touch a keyboard. there wasn't any brain-teaser,
everything was computer, algorithms, datastructures, writing some
code, etc.

that happened twice, once in 2007 and again in 2010. in both cases
they told me after several weeks that "i wasn't a good fit for that
opportunity, but i should apply for another one"

in the end i had fun, found some motivations to learn new things after
that, and of course i liked walking on Zurich's streets and lake. but
the third time they emailed me (2012) i just declined the offer
instead of wasting my time.

--
Javier

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