On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:05:17 +0200
Aleksandar Ivanisevic <aleksan...@ivanisevic.de> wrote:
> Sorry, but I must call bullshit here. When I was interviewing at
> Google, 2 out of five interviewers were late, one didn't show up at
> all so they just picked a random unfortunate guy from the hallway to
> do the interview. None of the interviewers were prepared, there were
> all reading my CV on the spot. Most of them were visibly annoyed by
> the fact that they have to do this, looking constantly at the watch,
> one of them even openly complained that all the "good" questions have
> already been asked. Others were not even bothered by the fact, they
> just asked it again and again. By the third time I was asked the same
> question I already knew the answer they wanted to hear.
>
> Moreover, all of my questions about how it is working for Google and
> what an SRE *actually* does were brushed off with a "you are not
> initiated" kind of smirk. At the end I've started asking technical
> questions, to at least get something out of the whole ordeal. And it
> worked, I really got some useful pointers about some stuff that has
> been marginally bothering me for some time ;)
Your observations don't jive with mine. When I first interviewed with
Google (about five years ago), I was very impressed by the types of
questions asked, how the interviewers asked them, and their willingness
to answer my questions. When I recently interviewed with them again
(an abbreviated interview cycle... one phone interview and three
engineers on-site), I made a point to ask questions like "what's an SRE
do, exactly?" and "tell me about 'a day in the life' of an SRE." The
people I talked to were very forthcoming about what I could expect.
Now, if only the people who decide how much the offer will be had a
clue, I'd probably be working for Google today. The most recent offer
was at the same base salary as the offer five years ago, despite the
fact that I'm making $25k more a year now than I was five years ago.
If the offer wasn't good enough five years ago, why would the same
offer be good now? </rant>
-jan-
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Jan L. Peterson
http://www.peterson-tech.com/~jlp/
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