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My Interview Experience:
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Interview: Those days I still cannot forget where I used to be over confident.
Once attending the place of interview every thing used to look good. I used be confident, sorry not confident but over confident. I know this seems to be strange about telling myself like that, but you should accept this because this is the truth. I used to be over confident.. Like this I would like to share an experience of the interview that I have faced. I can say this is the interview which made me to realize where I stand and which areas I should improve.
That was the day of interview in E2E Servizol. This incident took place before 2 or 3 years. Like small kids ask in the school that, what are the questions are asked by the teacher in a viva exam etc, I was asking the people coming out of the interview room. I know this sound stupid but I was like that. I was able to face 2 rounds one was Personal introduction round and typing test. Then it was the time to attend the hr round. At last my chance has come; I exactly don’t remember the name of the hr, but as far as I remember he was Amit. The door was closed and I felt as if the interrogation is going to start by the cop to a criminal. He started asking me; tell me about yourself, your experience, why I quit my earlier job etc. For which I can say that the answers which I gave were worst in worst English and poor grammar. At last the interviewer told me on my face that my English and grammar are very bad and told me to leave the room. I was pitched off, I had no words to speak, I remained mum and I was out of the room sorry form out of E2E. That incident made me to learn many things. I have learn “what happens if one is over confident”. Later, which I have started working on the areas that I have to improve. Today am in a position where I can motivate and guide people who are attending the interviews.
One way I felt bad at that time and the other way I realized that they are many things which one should learn and may be I would not have got an opportunity to taste the essence of failure if I would have selected on that day. One should be confident but being over confident leads to self insult.
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| Author: Anik Roy 14 Apr 2009 | Member Level: Bronze Points : 2 | A few months ago I received an e-mail from a recruiter at Google asking for an opportunity to talk to me about available development positions. Needless to say, I was pretty excited. I’m fairly happy in my current job, but–it’s GOOGLE. You don’t say no to an interview opportunity at Google.
I’m writing this account in order to contribute to the meager resources available on the Internet about the Google interview experience. I signed an NDA, so I’m not going to say what the specific questions were, but I think I can give a pretty good idea of my experience. I apologize right now for the length.
I traded a few e-mails with a recruiter in Mountain View. I had a phone conversation with him, wherein he asked me general questions about my skills, desired work locations (giving me a choice of Santa Monica, Mountain View, and Boston). I have no desire to live in California, so I chose Boston. I was then passed to another recruiter, who setup a phone interview with an engineer in Mountain View. There was a false start, when they couldn’t do the interview at the original time, so we postponed.
The phone interview went very quickly. He was very nice and asked about my specific talents, things I enjoy doing, and projects I’d worked on–especially those I listed on my resume. He asked about the ray tracer I wrote in college, since he had an interest in that. He also asked some general questions about the stuff I do for work. Then he got into the technical question. It was an interesting problem, and I asked follow-up questions, talked out loud, wrote things down in front of me (and told him what I was writing and why). I immediately thought of the naive solution–always a good place to start. He was interested in the asymptotic complexity. I knew there were better ways of doing it, so I started thinking of optimizations to the algorithm, trying to come up with ways of caching information, reusing previously-computed values, etc. He gave me some gentle prodding, and I think I understood immediately where he was going. I answered the question fairly well, I though.
And that was it–just a single question. I was surprised. The entire thing lasted less than 30 minutes. I was almost disappointed, and thought–”well, that’s that–I won’t hear back.” I really wasn’t expecting any follow-up.
The next week, I got an e-mail from my recruiter who said I had impressed and was going to get the opportunity for an in-person interview in Boston! They hooked me up to a travel coordinator, as well as the recruiter in Boston.
Very exciting. I had a convenient time to go, so I set that up, took time off from work and went up to Boston, staying in the Cambridge Marriott. Very nice hotel. 40? flat screen TV in the room ( which I never turned on). All expenses paid for, of course. I did have to pay for hotel and food up front, and save the receipts. (And yes, I promptly received a reimbursement check from them a few weeks after I sent them in.)
I arrived on Monday afternoon, figured out Logan International (a very confusing airport, I thought), and got myself to Cambridge, in the heart of MIT, an hour or so later. I checked in, then went walking. I found the building Google is in on the very next block from the hotel. They have a floor in a building that MIT leases to startups, tech incubators, and the like. There are plenty of news articles about the Google Boston office–just…you know, Google for them.
I walked past the ultimate geek bookstore–
Quantum Books. Discount tech books. COOL. I would definitely have to stop there later. Then I got some cheap, awful Chinese food at the food court
right under the hotel. Why? When I could go out on Google’s dime? I think I was just tired and wanted to get back to the hotel soon and start studying.
I ate dinner in the room, took pictures of the wonderful view of the Boston skyline
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