Just got Google reject. Weirdly, i felt it was a pretty good interview barring one, but the recruiter mentioned that she could not share the feedback. Is this normal and expected?
We do not share interview feedback most of the time. Sometimes if you go to hiring committee, they will tell you what areas you were felt to be lacking in, but that is rare.
Hows the case that self-assessment is so off from the interview? Was able to solve all the questions. One had missed edge cases but complete code. Not ranting, but trying to understand if its a different bar than what i expect
So I can't go into too much detail about how our process works, but I can try to help here. First, just because you finished "the question" doesn't mean you finished all the questions, many questions have follow-ups and they don't expect you to take the whole time answering one. For one of the questions I ask, if you only finish the first question that is a bad sign. Second there are several categories that you are rated on by each interviewer(I can't go into detail on what they are). There's a good chance you were doing or saying things during the interview that they noticed and you were barely aware of. Also you are viewing things from an inherently biased perspective, while the interviewer is rating you according to a set of rules. Overall it's very hard to self rate in SWE interviews, especially at Google.
Wow the exact same thing happened to me! Just a week ago
when is the interview and when do you know the rejection? at least you can know if recruiter sent your case to HC by the time gap. if not went to HC, I assume it is clearly bad.
What's a good time gap for HC?
1.5 weeks
Recruiters never give feedback. You just need to figure out what to improve on your own
Not true. Some helpful recruiters give feedback. I had interview with startups and some told me what areas were weak. Google recruiter told me what areas were weak
You're recruiters are nice. My recruiter usually just reply with a templated email of thanks but no thanks. Some recruiters don't even give a word, just š». Those assholes.
I got feedback from Google recruiter. It was fairly generic, but combining that feedback with self assessment gave me a good idea of where I couldāve done better.
I had a phone interview for an iOS dev position last Wednesday with Google and got rejected. Surprisingly I felt it went well and I answered, optimally, all coding questions. Recruiter refused to give feedback. I guess onto the next one!
I got a reject from Google, but I got feedback. That was the best interview experience Iāve ever had. I feel like I got many things out of that loop.
What epiphany did Google help you to realise?
Did the recruiter tell you?
They are scared. You tell them - stay that way
I always ask , āwhat do you think I could have improved upon?ā in the interview it self (between each session, question, and at the end). I pretty much always get a helpful answer. Relying on getting feedback after the fact is hit or miss. It can also save interview sometimes. They may respond, āYour approach as good but I expected you to use X, Y, Zā. Gives you a chance to possibly explain your self a little more and get yourself over the edge. Also could have nothing to do with you. Iāve worked at a few places where theyāve started interviews, Iāve selected a candidate , and then they donāt have head count all of a sudden. Just wasting everyoneās time š
Asking hint a lot during interview could cost you.
Not asking for hints. This is after you finished the questions or whiteboarding exercises.
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