Terrible Google phone interview
Warning: Long Post ahead. For people who don’t have patience, please read the summary. Short version: Bad phone interview with Google killed confidence gained by clearing 4 other big phone interviews (Amazon, FB, Uber, Snap). Looking for tips to gain back confidence for the onsites lined up in next 2 weeks Long version: I had a very terrible phone interview with Google. So terrible that by the end of the call I was still trying to come up with a non-brute force approach. I cleared phones interviews from Amazon, FB, Uber, Snap, VMWare. Basically cleared all phone interviews that I took except Google. But this one failure has taken away all the confidence I gained by clearing all the other phone interviews. Any tips on how to get back the confidence is highly appreciated. On site for all those companies are scheduled in next 2 weeks! Reasons I think why I screwed it up: 1. I’m on ADD medication which I ran out of, so that hurt me psychologically. 2. The interviewer was really nice and helpful but very hard to understand - not trying to blame him, may be it’s my fault that I couldn’t understand what he was saying. 3. The problem statement wasn’t given, he just said it verbally. I asked him to repeat twice, still didn’t get 100% of it. But felt too bad to ask the 4th time. So tried confirming with examples, that didn’t help either. All in all I would say it was one of those bad interview days. P.S : sorry for the terribly long post, just wanted to vent it out.
tell the recruiter how communication was an issue, they will look into it and reschedule another one - worked for me
Many people don't even clear 1 out of that list.
Sounds like the interviewer was at least partially at fault. Maybe he’ll recognize this and give you some benefit of any doubt.
I had once screwed up linkedin phone screen on a simple question to change decimal to binary (or something similar). It happens.
Sorry Shaktimaan
Same boat here. My interviewer was not responsive to my question and gave me an really vague oop api design question on the phone... sometimes it’s just luck nothing to do with your skills.
YeahI agree. But my interviewer was really really helpful though although it was really hard to understand his accent. He tried to navigate me till the very end! Even 5 mins before the time!
You can never predict. I did a phone interview with Google. 15 minutes in (out of allotted 45), interviewer asked if I had any questions. I was surprised, asked something and it ended. I though that was it, I had messed it up. Turned out he gave a great feedback.
Bro. You'll get Uber or VMware ezpz
What was your question :)
you call that long? you have serious ADD problem.
Can’t agree more with you :(
Feel better bro.
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Yes?