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Wanna Work at Google?
By JLP | January 19, 2007
If you like the perks of working at Google and think you have what it takes to work for them, then read this list of do’s and don’ts that I found on the Fortune website. Among the Do’s:
Be prepared to get up at a whiteboard and write software code during your interview. Brush up on “bit twiddling,” by the way. Really.
Among the Don’ts:
Go on and on in your interview about the doctoral project that you didn’t bother building or trying to commercialize. Google likes doers, not thinkers.
Anyway, it’s an interesting little list. If Google is your goal, good luck!
Topics: Miscellaneous | 4 Comments »
January 19th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Certainly a different process than most of us are used to. A friend of mine just interviewed at Google and they asked him not only how he would solve a solution, but to write the code to do it as well. And it wasn’t a simple problem… he had to write quite a bit of code freehand.
January 19th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I interviewed at Google. Well I got to the phone portion. I’m kind of glad that I never got to the point of writing code freehand. I would have done horrible.
January 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Ironically, I interviewed at Microsoft less then a year ago. A fun and exciting experience to say the least. Coding on a white-board is a challenge.
January 19th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Does that white-board code have to be working code?