4/5     interviewing for Google, any idea how they interview?
        heard it was unorthodox...thanks..
        \_ Just tell them you know the secret word that rhymes with orange
           and that you'll tell them if they hire you.
           \_ arrange.
           \_ door hinge
              \_ That's not the secret word, it's two words.
           \_ purple
           \_ p0rn-age
           \_ stonehenge
           \_ stonehenge, syringe
        \_ Not really.  You get the standard, all-day thing with lunch at
           the cafeteria, full of tech questions.  I've had more difficult
           interviews.  I've met both nicer and meaner people, both smarter
           and dumber people.  It's a place.  They're people.  Good luck!
        \_ grats on the interview, just be cool.
        \_ The tech interview was much easier than I expected.  I was warned
           for the 2nd ("personality") interview to "be enthusiastic".  I was
           myself and thus judged not Google-worthy.  (They told me "your
           technical skills are great, but you didn't seem excited enough")
           Of course if their recruiters are telling you how to behave and
           that's what they're checking for (enthusiasm, real or otherwise),
           that's a little silly, but *shrug*.  Do what they say if you really
           want the job.  The job market's getting better and something better
           came along so I'm glad it fell through.  --dbushong
           \_ All it takes is one or two unhappy people to really drag down
              a team.  Personality really does matter.  And generally people
              faking enthusasim are pretty spottable.  If you can fake it well
              you probably are enthusastic enough to not be a drag.  If you
              can't (or have a "I'm not going to be enthusastic" chip on
              your shoulder well, that's a warning sign.  Warning signs don't
              mean you are goign to be a bad employee but let's face it,
              Google can afford to lose a good person here and there in
              order to weed out the bad ones.
              \_ "enthusiasm".
              \_ This is ridiculously stupid.  Enthusiastic about what?  Do all
                 the google people jump around saying "whomp" and having
                 "teambuilding" activities?
                 \_ whomp whomp on the head!  whomp whomp on the head!
                 \_ That place is starting to sound weird. There was a /.
                    article about the "personal projects" that people are
                    allowed to work on, except the guy was saying it's
                    starting to be like you have to have a personal project
                    or else you won't look good, etc.
           \_ In the post-Google IPO world, I don't think they can afford
              to be as picky as they seem to think they can be. Is there
              really that much cachet associated with working there that
              hundreds of new hires will take under market wages and longer
              hours just to be there?
              \_ Yes.  And partly because they know Google is picky.
                 \_ Which doesn't explain aaron.
                    \_ aaron is blacklisted for improper not-happy vibes.