Trickiest Way to Get Hired as a Google Engineer
Bangalore: Are you a software engineer looking to work with Google? Of course, most of the engineers will never say ‘no’ to work with Google. It is a dream of millions of career aspirants to get hired at Google. Hundreds of articles are on the advice column to give you the best guidance to mould your career with Google. Nobody has a doubt on ‘Google’s first rank among the most desired work places’. As you have heard, Google interview is very tricky and hard.
If you want to join with Google, you should know what to expect from the interview board. Apart from the brain teasers, you have to attend some direct kind of questions which demands proficiency in background knowledge. Also your interviewer will be looking to talk more about process of solving that problem. These discussions will help them to analyze your thought processing. Being a programmer or coder, you should consider many solutions to solve the programming problem and you must evaluate them too. Knowing the right away answers, cannot always make you best in Google interview if you do not find other ways to solve a problem. Also you have to talk about where should be the design decisions made.
In one of his article on Quora.com, Moishe Lettvin, (Tech Lead for Communications APIs on App Engine Tech Lead on Google Talk) mentioned how you should be prepared for an interview at Google. You should be prepared to write lots of code which demands more algorithmic experience to solve. You will be expected to solve problems which may or may not be well-defined. The questions will be asked according to your relevant experiences.