Last week interviewed at Google, and unfortunately, the experience left much to be desired. The interview was scheduled for 10 am PST, but no one showed up for the first 15 minutes. After informing the recruiter, I resumed my work. An hour later, I received a call from the interviewer, who claimed I was already 5 minutes late. Despite my surprise at the unexpected call, I promptly joined the interview. From the start, there was minimal interaction or collaboration. I provided examples and sought clarification, but received no constructive feedback, only rude facial expressions. Adding to the discomfort, the interviewer's child's background noise was highly distracting and disrupted my train of thought multiple times. Despite these challenges, I tackled the problem at hand, only to be thrown off guard when the interviewer introduced a completely unrelated example near the end, forcing me to adjust my approach hastily. With only 5 minutes remaining, he said that, I see you need to do a lot in this code with a weird thing he did with his eyebrows Made me wonder if I did wrong implementation, upon reviewing code post-interview, I found it to be mostly functional, with one minor oversight that could have been addressed with clearer guidance during the interview. While I hold no hate against the interviewer's nationality, the overall experience left me feeling disheartened and undervalued. It's disappointing when an interviewer seems disinterested and unprepared. I’m left with a bitter experience. Update1: Thank you guys for the suggestions and support. I went ahead and explained everything to the recruiter in email and today morning she suggested that I send her my availability for another screening. Before I could have sent my availability, I got another email from her on different email chain saying unfortunately they won’t be moving forward with my profile since interviewer doesn’t think I’m good fit at the moment. I am puzzled whether they want to reschedule the phone interview or shall I just accept the reject email.
Google India or usa? Google is filled with some useless engineers so you lost nothing
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Tell the recruiter Will be a negative point for that engineer
+1, Tell the recruiter. If it's a phone screen, you'd get another chance. For onsite, you'd get another interview if you do well in other interviews. I too had a similar experience with an interviewer on the phone screen round. Google is not all smart folks.
Which nationality is the interviewer?
Share the experience with recruiter and move on, good luck!
In my experience, if the interviewer is more than 5 minutes late, I immediately email the recruiter, tell them the situation and request a different slot. Don’t let them push you around to be rushed. Additionally, if they suddenly change the calendar without you knowing, email the recruiter and tell them. I refuse to be pushed into an interview when I’m not at 100%.
I interviewed with Google 2 or 3 years ago. The interviewers didn't know how to interview at all. Yes, I got rejected but I lost my desire to join the once my dream company!
had a similar experience in my in-office onsite before covid, 10min late meeting me at the lobby for the 1st round, then walked slowly like a stoner to an interview room in a different building. I bombed that one and the rest too. Shake it off and onto the next one bro, win some lose some.
I am sorry that happened to you. I had a similar experience. In my case, the person was 10 minutes late, made disapproving noises, and looked like they didn't want to be there. Then, they turned off their camera saying they were having problems with their internet. Agree to just shake it off. If you get to work at Google, you'll have to deal with some of those IRL too.
Sounds like the interviewer needs to get off their high horse. Sorry to hear OP. What’s your yoe?
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I had the same experience some time ago, and the interviewer was having too much ego!
You’re right about that ego part.
I felt my interviewers had too much ego back in 2018! Trend continues! Despite their layoffs!