EDIT: I pointed out the races of my other interviewers because it supports the point that the only person who was hard to talk to was a white male. Everyone EXCEPT the white guy was normal. The white guy was clearly aiming for "gotcha" comments, was using obnoxiousness as a "quirky" personality cover (in a very HR way), and was just an overall caricature of Redditors and racially+sexuality-obsessed wokeness. What's up with white dudes at Google? Is this common? EDIT 2: Recruiter said feedback was excellent, but he wants to discuss some things with me early next week. Did someone potentially bring this up in Google? EDIT 3: Found out I passed the interview and I'm moving forward as a "strong hire"! The recruiter mentioned some stuff, like "even though one part of the interview went wrong". Something tells me someone was listening in on the interviews and maybe Quirk Chungus didn't know it? Whatever. I guess none of this really mattered. --- ORIGINAL POST --- I had the worst experience with *one* part of my Google virtual on-site. It was really weird. 1st portion: Overall experience and areas of expertise. Black dude, down to earth and smooth. 2nd portion: Coding. Asian guy, smooth interview. A lot of fun. 3rd portion: System design. It was an Indian guy who was exceptional at explaining everything. 4th portion: Googleyness with Reddit incarnate. The shit show... (For context in all this, I'm a white guy from Texas, reasonably fit, and I work on cars as a hobby) The guy doing the "Googleyness" interview was the first white guy. Patchy beard hair, obviously overweight with early signs of balding, loved to ramble about the most random crap. 80% of the interview was him talking shit about Amazon, and Marvel movies (NOT JOKING), and he kept popping out quips like "ooferino","y'all", "big oof", "yikes", et cetera. At one point, he also corrected me on the pronouns of my own brother while I was explaining a short story. He asked me to refer to my brother as "they" unless "they" were there to say what their pronouns are. I knew this kind of BS was coming since Blind warned me, so I was avoiding all gendered language, but I didn't expect him to try correcting me about my own f*cking brother. My brother is ex-military, works in machining and fabrication, and is 100% a "guy's guy". I think if he heard someone like this call him a "they", he'd kick their ass. So this was an eye opening experience. I was in awe at this walking, talking meme of a man, because I thought these people weren't real. Nope... he's definitely out there, mentally terrorizing people. He was what everyone imagines the most hyperbolic redditor to be. Up to this point, everyone was clearly smart, and very laid back, and working with them was a collaborative effort. This guy felt like he was there to enforce quirkiness. So, yeah, I'm certain the interview was tanked solely because of this guy, and I fully expect a rejection. This guy is so out of touch with normal people, it's scary. Thanks for attending my Ted Talk. Current TC: 433k YOE: 11
Please refer to the interviewer as ātheyā, you donāt know their gender.
I knew someone would say it š
"big oof" for not doing this!
no wonder msft is kicking googleās ass with chatgpt
You may be onto something. If the dinguses in charge are SO acutely aware of "microaggressions", I could definitely see products being delayed or lobotomized in the pursuit of upsetting as few people as possible...
No shit, say whatever you want of msft but thereās less weirdos for sure
Donāt worry, ooferino was clearly only there to impress himself. He didāt even notice you, so youāre good to go if you did well on your other interviews.
Can you report him? Not sure if it will do anything but worth a shot
Going by your incessant need to point out race Iām going to assume youāre the problem here. I recommend seeing people as individuals rather than as skin color.
Seriously, wtf is with those people descriptions. It also sounds made up.
The post is obviously fake but you sound like the type of guy that will scream racist at the first thing you don't like
Inform recruiter
Should I wait to see if I get negative feedback first? Or casually mention it and then push back more if rejected?
Tell recruiter you have some concerns about that part of the interview, and if thereās anything negative, youād like an opportunity to redo that round. I would keep your feedback to āhe did a lot of talking and Iām concerned I missed a chance to tell my storyā. Keep it real positive and diplomatic.
Beautiful shitpost
Did the whole cafeteria clap afterwards?
unfortunately (fortunately?) this was a virtual interview. I feel like he would've been less cringe in person, since he was not really looking at the screen or camera much. Mostly just kinda rambling into space.
Sundar showed up and personally handed OP a Soylent cafe mocha Just kidding, anybody can make a āNewā account and write a story about some guy who embodies the right wing soyboy archetype
Just be better
This remind me of the tiktok guy who roleplays as a redditor irl
Oh God lol I need to see that. I thought he was messing around at first, but he didn't stop! Then I realized it was just his personality.
Look up āaverage redditorā on tik tok and youāll see itās hilarious