I had such an experience going over Google hiring process that I wanted to share with you all! :-D First, got approached by a recruiter over LinkedIn, we had the talk and they asked for my CV - probably to ingest data into their system. They also explained to me the whole process I was about the experience. After sending them the document, they had a phone call with me, the recruiter said the team looked at my resume and decided to skip the 1st phone screening and moved me straight to virtual onsite - I have about 7 yoe in the field. That was very surprising, but well, what else can I do other than prepare myself?! They were kind enough to provide me some interesting links for what to expect from their onsite and other materials to check. I started preparing myself - I wasn't currently looking for anything, to be honest.. but, Google is Google anyways. I started the preparation, LC, cracking the coding interview, AlgoExpert, I checked behavioral preparation as well, I checked the Amazon management guide as well and split my studies between Algorithm and Data Structures. I was able to cover pretty much most of the topics usually they cover, BST, Graphs, Tries, Arrays, Linked List, Hash Tables, Tree traversal... I also did common interview questions list from LC. I had a couple of weeks to prepare. But, 1 day before the scheduled onsite, I had a family emergency. I sent them an email like 1am, I was totally honest, I told them I took the day off but had to deal with family emergency and so on... They understood it and allowed me schedule it again. However, I had scheduled vacation :-D They were very nice and told me to relax and get back to them after my vacation! Quick pause to highlight how great the recruitment team is! Very kind. So, I spent my vacation enjoying family and studying for the onsite at night - yeah, I did that. I don't know how, but I did. I came back and scheduled my onsite. All day long, full of interviews. 4 coding + 1 behavioral. No design interview. After some time talking to the recruiter, they said I was going to be interviewed for L4 position. After some days recruiter comes back, they say they collected feedback and so on, I had strong communication skills, good behavioral results and just 1 note on algorithms. They didn't tell me much about it,. though. I tried to get more, but nothing else. They say like I got positive feedback but they would consider me for L3, instead. I said ok, no problem! Go ahead. Then I asked a few questions about the situation, we went back and forth with my questions, mostly related to position, immigration stuff... At some point they said HR would take care of it later on. They took a couple more weeks to get back to me - probably with some offer. But, a different outcome, they called me and told me the hiring committee analyzed my application and decided not to move forward with my application. That was very surprising, though. They should have done it before instead of giving hope :-( So, no offer. I tried to get more feedback, about what to do better, areas to improve, and all they say is: get optimal solutions. I won't go over details about questions, but I was very communicative, I talked to interviewer about my approach, the algorithm I was thinking about, the complexity and only wrote code after making sure I had enough to do it. I always checked if the solution was good, I added some test cases and we discussed it together. Only 1 question I had hints, I came up with the good approach but I wasn't able to finish it on time. All other questions I had the impression I did well. Maybe this one was enough to drag the whole application down. I don't know. I asked them when I could apply again - even though I haven't, they invited me and they said usually in 1 year. Overall, it was good to know the process, but it was very exhausting and in my opinion they should have done it slightly different. But yes. Maybe I can "apply" again. At least I used it to polish up algorithm and data structure skills and kind of motivate myself to keep doing it! *** Update *** I meant Amazon Leadership Principles instead of management guide TC: 130k
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L3 at 7yoe? Wtf?
Yeah...
They offered me L3 at 8 yoe. Basically when feedback is on the border, they leave it up to you. For some folks it is still better to land at Google, than no offer at Google. So I guess it's nice of them to still offer.
Might be because of YOE too high for L3
Maybe. But the way they told me it seemed like the hiring committee analyzed my app twice, once for L4 and then for L3. Which is weird as well...
There's only ever one HC review, interviewers can choose to rate at two levels. What's likely is that your feedback was leaning to not hire at 4 because of some technical gaps but you were still viewed as a good candidate overall. Based on the feedback the recruiter put your packet before the hiring committee as a 3.
L3 at 7 is insane. But if it’s a good enough jump who cares I guess. You can do better for sure.
Exactly, I was waiting for the offer to analyze if it would make sense or not...
Thanks!
Joining as L3 is not fair to you. That could be the reason
I haven't thought about it. Maybe, yes
Not to be a sour grape, but I’d say definitely spend time to reflect your performance. I used to run into that earlier too and my interview analysis and actual results were at odds. See if there were more areas you probably missed.
Yeah, it makes sense. Maybe doing some mock interviews and getting feedback would help as well.
I got hired as L5 at Google, but plenty of other places tried to downlevel me or just got rejected for silly reasons or no reason. Try not to overanalyze one interview. There's a 50/50 chance one of your interviewers just didn't like you
What was the timeline length of all of this?
First contact in November, final call in April.
That’s insanity. 6 month to get through the funnel??? There should be a special place in hell for recruiters/HR that make you jump through that many hoops.
Hard to believe there is a company out there that has such a reputation that an engineer with 7 yoe would be ecstatic about a new grad level role.
Yes. But I tried to be polite enough to get to know what they had to offer 1st. Maybe I was too kind in that matter and not rejecting it right away :-)
Or maybe they expected me to reject and I got them surprised haahahaah
Do yourself a favour by staying outta google. They are running high on egos and lowballing people. But wannabe crowd just wanna get stamped so badly that they accept lowballs
I have to agree with u. They contacted me for a customer service engineer position for security and compliance (im an security architect by profession).Google will not REVEAL compensation package until I have gone through nearly 5 different interviews. So I was forced to tell the 2nd recruiter who was to "prep" me for all these interviews that I need to know if the compensation is worth all the sacrifice I'm to put into prepping for 1 presentation,3 behavioral interviews and 1 technical interview OTHERWISE I may lose interest. And this was JUST the First part of a 2 part interview!! 2ND interview was with the executive management They seem to think that their name ensures one will be over the moon to interview with them and accept any crappy comp they give u. Needless to say,I decided it wasn't worth my time.
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That is strange
That's what I thought as well
You should have applied for L5 with 7 years of experience.