Is it true that candidates for Google jobs have eight rounds of interviews?

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Is it true that candidates for Google jobs have eight rounds of interviews to get through before they are offered the job?

Seems slightly excessive. Maybe its just an urban legend?
 
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nope,
I know a couple of people who have gone to work for them and both had several interviews to get the job

they have a low turnover of staff, so i guess they put effort in at the interview stage
 
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I also know of a couple of people who went through 7 or 8 rounds of interviews / assignments / assessments before they got the job with Google.
 
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I know someone who went through at least 8 and a couple outside of the country. On a thread on Boards.ie someone from Google (so they said) claimed they had reduced it to a max of 8. I could understand for senior roles, but they do this even for minor roles. I think its HR gone mad myself.
 
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I went for 5 interviews in Ireland and spent three days in California doing interviews with Google in 2003. Was really ****ed off when I heard absolutley nothing form them upon my return so took another offer. I had to ring them to sort out my expenses from the California three months after my return as they had still not contacted me. Hopefully their HR department is operating correctly now but back then it was a complete mess.
 
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I had 1 interview with google following application and a phone screen. The interview was conducted using googledocs. It was for a test engineer position. But despite being told it was a technical interview I got curve ball questions like what is quality? and then long pauses after my answers... designed to off balance - which I'm afraid to say succeeded.

I prepared for the interview like you would for an exam, I had my sort routines back from college down, refreshed syntax for C++ and Java, had tcp ip and the like ready to go.

They said that someone would get back to me, but no one ever did and to be honest of all the interviews I've done in the last decade or more that one I came out of feeling worst so I was happy enough to forget about it.
 
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rsob said:
But despite being told it was a technical interview I got curve ball questions like what is quality? and then long pauses after my answers... designed to off balance - which I'm afraid to say succeeded.
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I wouldn't have thought asking someone applying for a test engineer position what quality was or meant to them is a curve ball exactly, gven quality is central to any such position. Mind you it isn't exactly a technical question either, so if that's what you were told the interview was about, a little unexpected perhaps.
 
At this point you have to expect anything from a Google interview. As a cleaner you might be asked whats the difference between a duck. Etc.
 
It's all part of the google marketing engine.
1. Something else to get people talking and posting about.
2. Making out that working for google is a privilege.
 
here's an idea.... get a job where you don't need to prove your worth 8 times before joining, do google pay above the odds or never fire people? if not then whats the attraction?

showing up to more and more interviews only shows you have no self esteem and are easily programmed, is there nobody asking themselves after round 5 'am i a complete saddo?'... if so then at least you have the cop on to realise that... and the answer is 'yes' (incase you were wondering)
 
A friend of mine went through 5 interviews with Google. At the end of the 5th one they told him that while he was technically suitable for the job they thought that he would be bored doing it and so they didn’t give it to him.
 
A freind of mine had about 5 or 6 interviews with Coca Cola so this seems its an American.

I read somewhere that interviews on their own are only 30% effective.
 
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