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Zeze

Zeze

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ViviTheMage said:
Oh shit, you are right. I forgot that the 3 is not perfectly at the 3 if it's 3:15.

I do fail :(
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I have never been flown for interview.

When is the date and how does it work? Did they buy you the ticket or reimburse? I assume they stick you at the hotel nearby Mountain View and feed you too? Are you flying out on same day?
 
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ViviTheMage

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She said they will buy my plane ticket, setup the hotel, and car rental (or car pick up service). I gave her my tentative open days, and she said she'll get back to me after she talks to the managers on location.
 
Zeze

Zeze

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ViviTheMage said:
She said they will buy my plane ticket, setup the hotel, and car rental (or car pick up service). I gave her my tentative open days, and she said she'll get back to me after she talks to the managers on location.
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Let me know how your interview trip goes! I'd love to hear all about it.
 
adlep

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I've been flown to a Google interview in 2006. It was a level 2 position. Had about 6 interviews and at the end I did not made a cut. Bummer. But it was still a great experience. I was a total of 3 days in MV. The day before of the interview, the day of the interview and I elected to stay an extra day after the interview. Had a great time. They did ask me a total of 3 "Google" questions in addition to asking me a bunch of tech questions. Make sure to brush on your regular expressions skills and be prepared to meet at least 3 to 4 groups of people in different rooms (they were moving me from room to room throughout the "grilling process")...
Best of luck.
 
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Zeze

Zeze

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adlep said:
I've been flown to a Google interview in 2006. It was a level 2 position. Had about 6 interviews and at the end I did not made a cut. Bummer. But it was still a great experience. I was a total of 3 days in MV. The day before of the interview, the day of the interview and I elected to stay an extra day after the interview. Had a great time. They did ask me a total of 3 "Google" questions in addition to asking me a bunch of tech questions. Make sure to brush on your regular expressions skills and be prepared to meet at least 3 to 4 groups of people in different rooms (they were moving me from room to room throughout the "grilling process"...
Best of luck.
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Did you drive a rental between airport to hotel? What the hell did you do in the evenings? Did they feed you dinner too?

I doubt they entertained you in the evening, seeing as you may not make it.

Oh, you devoted 3-4 days off from work just for Google?
 
adlep

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Zeze said:
Did you drive a rental between airport to hotel? What the hell did you do in the evenings? Did they feed you dinner too?

I doubt they entertained you in the evening, seeing as you may not make it.

Oh, you devoted 3-4 days off from work just for Google?
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Yeah, Google paid for the rental car. I was driving a nice, newish Chevy Cobalt that I drove everywhere around the bay area. The route between the hotel and the San Jose airport wasn't challenging at all. The first evening I keep on reading few interview techniques books and tried to anticipate tech questions and come up with best answers. I've also drove to the Google's headquarters just to see it and make sure that I know how to get there for the next day. Second day I woke up early, took a shower, and put on my best suit. Drove to Goolge's hq (no problems this time around) and meet up with Gail - my recruiter. The day was filled with interviews until about 2:00 pm. After that I did some sight seeing around the bay area, visited the computer museum, and followed up with my recruiter. I also had a food allowance up to $25.00 a day as far as I can recall. I think that went to a restaurant once, but I was eating a local fast food mostly (silly me)...

Zeze said:
Oh, you devoted 3-4 days off from work just for Google?
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Well, they paid for the ticket, rental, and hotel. I may as well have a mini vacation while there, no? Also, at that time they were the best company to work for. It would be a significant career move for me and I decided to do everything I could to do the best on the interview. Flying in the day of the interview and flying back the next day would be exhausting.
 
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bhanson

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Zeze said:
3:15 = Big hand happens to be on 3 as well (15th min). So you're just figuring out how much the small hand moves in 15 mins.

It takes 60 mins for small hand to move 1 hour (obviously). And 1 hour is = 30 degrees (360 / 12 hours).

So 15 mins = quarter of an hour = Answer: small hand moves 7.5 degrees (30 / 4)

Uh oh, you're in trouble. :whiste: And that wasn't even nearly technical.

They ask crap like this:

Given two numbers m and n, write a method to return the first number r that is
divisible by both (e.g., the least common multiple).

I have no idea wtf that is.
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I don't know how good these are (if they even work), but this is my 5 minute solution.

Code: 
int GCD(int m, int n) {
    for (int r = (m > n) ? m : n; r > 0; --r) {
       if (!(m % r) && !(n % r)) {
           return r;
       }
    }
    return -1; // will never happen
}

int LCM(int m, int n) {
    int max = m * n;
    for (int r = (m < n) ? m : n; r <= max; ++r) {
       if (!(r % m) && !(r % n)) {
           return r;
       }
    }
    return -1; // will never happen
}

Forgive me if these are terrible, I don't program anymore.
 
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ViviTheMage

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adlep said:
Yeah, Google paid for the rental car. I was driving a nice, newish Chevy Cobalt that I drove everywhere around the bay area. The route between the hotel and the San Jose airport wasn't challenging at all. The first evening I keep on reading few interview techniques books and tried to anticipate tech questions and come up with best answers. I've also drove to the Google's headquarters just to see it and make sure that I know how to get there for the next day. Second day I woke up early, took a shower, and put on my best suit. Drove to Goolge's hq (no problems this time around) and meet up with Gail - my recruiter. The day was filled with interviews until about 2:00 pm. After that I did some sight seeing around the bay area, visited the computer museum, and followed up with my recruiter. I also had a food allowance up to $25.00 a day as far as I can recall. I think that went to a restaurant once, but I was eating a local fast food mostly (silly me)...



Well, they paid for the ticket, rental, and hotel. I may as well have a mini vacation while there, no? Also, at that time they were the best company to work for. It would be a significant career move for me and I decided to do everything I could to do the best on the interview. Flying in the day of the interview and flying back the next day would be exhausting.
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From what I read, suit is a bad idea. Just wear business casual. My plan is to just read up on what others had done, and study up on brain teasers.
 
adlep

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ViviTheMage said:
From what I read, suit is a bad idea. Just wear business casual. My plan is to just read up on what others had done, and study up on brain teasers.
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A suit is never a bad idea. It symbolizes seriousness. Can't go wrong with a suit. It should be a default first choice for any interview, unless you apply to be a stripper.
:)
 
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ViviTheMage

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adlep said:
A suit is never a bad idea. It symbolizes seriousness. Can't go wrong with a suit. It should be a default first choice for any interview, unless you apply to be a stripper.
:)
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Generally, I agree...but from all of the glassdoor articles I read, suit IS too much.
 
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For technical positions, you will feel out of place with a full suit - go for business casual. They stress that they care more about what you know than how you look, and it's true (unless you really look like a slob).

Definitely try to relax, but prepare to be asked everything from low to high-level types of questions. Keep in mind it's a search company with a massively distributed architecture, so brush up on the issues related to distributed systems and their solutions/trade offs (especially the ones Google has come up with).

Good luck!
 
Zeze

Zeze

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ViviTheMage said:
From what I read, suit is a bad idea. Just wear business casual. My plan is to just read up on what others had done, and study up on brain teasers.
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The best bet: Ask the recruiter. You don't want to overdress or underdress.
 
Gibson486

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nice....goodluck.

Meanwhile...I got an interview at some non google no name place, then they canceled on me:(
 
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