How is Google Interview Bar Now
My friend got laid off in November, rejected from all the interviews, but cracked Google after a few months. People who had the recent experience of Google Interview, how is the bar now? Definitely, it's not gonna be like the last year I know.
Just finished interviewing at Google. On-site was the hardest interview I’ve ever experienced.
What level? What made it hard
I find it is harder, most candidates last year only got rejected if I gave leaning no hire rating. Now anything equal or below leaning hire is usually rejection. I haven't changed my question at all though.
Make sense. There are tons of supplies in the market for a few positions.
holy shit
On average, Google's coding interviews are much harder than at any other company (including Meta, Apple, Amazon, etc).
depends on ur style, I found meta’s 2 per session harder bc u pretty much need to remember the problem. Not much time to fumble around testing what algo to use.
May be your friend studied well during the last few months?
My 3~4 yr experience here has been a shitshow. I highly recommend you to stay away. I'm in infra so a handful of my mentors have been here since the "beginning". They said it's been downhill for a decade now and other companies will soon catch that it's just IBMv2, losing its merit on your resume
Are you an SRE SWE?
Just a regular infra swe. I do work with a lot of SREs though
These questions are so stupid , the bar obviously varies from candidate to candidate there is no uniform bar in any country
bar is not much different but TM options are scarce so could be in purgatory for extended time
I don’t think the interviews are harder, I think it’s just harder in general to get an interview since there’s much slower hiring
Yeah. My recruiter from Jan 2023 who invited me to try again in 6 months ... isn't responding (they're still @ Google). L6 loop as well, and they mentioned I'm correclty leveled at L6 per the feedback. Also invited to re-try in 6 months. And the same role is still open :(
I don't think the bar has changed. It's a silly question.
Much easier than ever
Even easier than 2020-2021?
Really?