"Feedback" From Interview at Google
So I interviewed at Google for a Security Engineer position and got a "thanks, but pass". The recruiter gave zero feedback (as she said she legally couldn't). Is this consistent with other peoples' experience? I've heard it often takes 4 or 5 tries to get hired as they have a high "false negative rate". Should I try again in 6 months? Longer? Curious to hear peoples' thoughts.
4 or 5 times is not accurate. Maybe like 2-3. But at 4-5 attempts it means you haven't improved (at interviews)in 2-3 yrs. Also for feedback that's how it is with many tech companys, no one wants to risk giving away some info and having the candidate argue it. So it's safer to not give any real feedback.
As an interviewer I tell people what mistake they made as soon as I am finished with hearing them answer. The stakes in interviews are high enough on both sides that there is no reason to do otherwise unless the candidate is clearly BSing. In those cases, I work to get them to admit their own defeat.
Feedback I got from google was I wasn’t thinking at “google scale”. When probed more, recruiter said I wasn’t designing for billions of consumers, and limiting myself to 100s of millions. I genuinely couldn’t understand the feedback but could not get any useful details from recruiter.
What were your questions/answers? Seems like you probably didn’t account for solar flares affecting your customer churn rate...
Lol. Questions were standard, nothing out of the blue. Focused on scalability, design, time complexity. I couldn’t understand why a design that scales to 100s of millions won’t scale to billions, if that’s what the feedback really meant. The recruiter kept talking about how billions of people in the world use google products and that’s why every candidate should think about google scale when answering. Unfortunately, my answers only scaled up to 100s of millions. Her words, not mine.
Recently interviewed for security engineering @ Google and got the job. Recruiter didn't share any feedback either despite asking a few times. FWIW: From what I've been told you typically don't get to interview again for more than 12 months (18? 24?) for security, they have a higher hiring bar yada yada
For software engineer, I was told once every 12 months, fwiw.
Yeah, the recruiter said 12 mos.
When I was rejected a few years ago, my recruiter did share feedback. Sort of felt like he shouldn’t have because I tried arguing with it on the phone and then realized he can’t do anything about it. I’d imagine everyone’s reaction is to disagree
not worth it dude come join 🥇
I've worked at Microsoft, in WDG. It was alright.