Hey everyone,
I recently applied for a software engineering role at Google and completed all my interviews. I wanted to share my experience and get your thoughts on my chances.
Background:
• Current Role: SDE at Microsoft • Internship: Microsoft • Education: Tier-1 College
Interview Feedback: • Phone Screen: Hire • Onsite Interviews: • Lean No Hire • Lean Hire • Lean Hire • Googleyness: Strong Hire My recruiter told me that i got very good feedback in DSA matrix : 3 Outstanding, 1 Solid
Two of my onsite interviews were conducted by diversity-hire female interviewers, and I felt that they lacked an understanding of DSA. The third onsite interviewer also gave me a Lean Hire, despite me solving all the problems without hints—I expected a Strong Hire. Overall everyone was having an experience of less than 2 yrs and the panel was inexperienced.
Given my feedback, what are my chances of getting through? Should I request an additional round with a more experienced panel to ensure my skills are fairly assessed?
Would love to hear your thoughts and any suggestions on how to proceed!
Lmao the audacity to come here and blame on diversity hire interviewers when literally the third interviewed gave you a lean hire too. Pretty clear to me who’s dsa understanding is lacking
What's your yoe ? What position are you interviewing for ? Are you an L60/61 currently at MSFT?
I've interviewed for L3, somewhere around January Got 2 strong hires, 1 lean hire, strong hire in googliness.
Haven't gotten my profile picked yet by any manager, I have a good resume, with good work ex around distributed systems and backend engg.
Google has given me a very bad candidate experience.
I'd suggest you to let it be, sooner your interviews are done better are the chances for your profile to get picked out of the pool.
So indirectly you are saying i should not keep hopes. But are you sure about your feedbacks, i am preety sure if your reviews were like that, you would have gotten selected, 100%
@UnhappyDome5 @incognito_bakchodi both a question to you guys, why are you going for L3 in G when you are currently at L60 and MTS2 respectively, ain't it a downlevel? Why not try for SDE 2 or equivalent?
Lmk how it goes. They didn't take schedule any onsite after good feedback in TPS
When was your tps round?
I also had interview at google for L3 role. I got strong hire in all three dsa rounds and lean hire in googliness round. It's been more than 3 weeks since last round and haven't got any response for team matching round.
Anyone know how long it takes to get a call for team matching round after clearing onsite rounds?
My phone screen round scheduled on 15th April for l3.Can you guys help me with preparation? What kind of questions i might face the difficulty level. Where can i get some questions?
In most cases, they ask medium level dsa question with 1-2 followup on 45 mins. You can see the recent interview experience in the leetcode discuss section.
Been in similar boat, 4 rounds cleared last round taken by someone fairly new (2-3months in Google ) and rejected . This was for product lead role. HR did not respond back when asked for feedback. Was told each round will be elimination round and can’t believe when others who were tenured googlers (10 years ago) Oked me and then this new bee rejected and it was accepted!
Communication is the key. You shouldn't just solve problems. You should make the interviewer believe that you are the right fit. Sometimes our arrogance takes front row unconsciously. For example - explaining my solution with remark like - "well it's obvious, rit?" . My unsolicited advice - don't join Google unless it's Gemini, deepmind team. For a tier 1 college guy, it would be a bad career trajectory. Google isn't what it used to be - likes of Rajeev Motwani, Jeff Dean, Prabhakar Raghavan and many more. I am sure you look upto them but Google doesn't provide the same opportunity anymore.
My resume itself is not. Getting short listed 😅 been applying since last November for BA / BIE roles
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