Forum Moderators: open
Google has really impressed me with their classy brand. How should someone get into google? What is the best format of CV for google?
Is there anyone else who have applied for Google? What other companies will you like to be in?
AjiNIMC
Your answer made me think. Did I ask something wrong? Is the plex not for humans?
Is there anyone who have applied for google or some tips for the CV?
Thanks for the replies and its a foo question so please do not shout at me :).
Is there any sample CV available? I suggested a performance CV and in India we have a style of CV formatting but I am not sure whether it will go good with US format.
AjiNIMC
Since G has offices all over the world, I have no reason to believe that the precise format of your CV should make any difference any more than the exact brand of paper you could print it on.
If you CV is tidy, clear and preferably at most one or two pages, then it should fly anywhere if you have the right qualifications.
I interview lots of people and I really don't give two hoots about the format if I think the person has skills and talent and the ability to communicate clearly.
(I don't advise doing a video CV including ballroom dancing and karate! My, how we laughed...)
Rgds
Damon
[edited by: DamonHD at 10:12 am (utc) on Oct. 23, 2006]
Do you mention your blog in your CV? Will it be called a Web 2.0 CV?
My Blog:
My Word Tag: A tag cloud
(LOL)
I am surely going to try one web 2.0 CV on my blog for fun.
Their HR director is quoted as saying "Everything works if you're trying to hire 500 people a year or 1,000. We're hiring much larger numbers than that..."
Here are a few interesting points from the story. You need to subscribe to get to the link:
The average is 5.1 in-person interviews (down from 6.2 at the beginning of the year) before hiring.
Google now has 9,378 employees.
One of the co-founders reviews every job offer recommended by an internal hiring committee each week, sometimes pushing back with questions about an individual's qualifications.
Google has traditionally focused a lot on candidates' academic performance and favored those who went to elite schools. The HR director suggests that they are changing that a little, pointing "to new staff members who don't have college degrees but do have solid professional track records."
The article says that a guy interviewed for a corporate communications job at was invited to headquarters after two phone interviews, where he had separate interviews with about half-a-dozen people. .... He also turned in several "homework" assignments, including a personal statement and a marketing plan for a future Google product.
The HR director said now the "ideal would be that for at least some roles, we can make offers the same day people interview."
The company is considering making an offer to some candidates after just two interviews.
Questions they might ask, says the article, are, Have you ever turned a profit at your own non-tech side business (dog walker, catering, tutoring, etc.)? How strongly would you describe yourself as someone with an assertive personality? At work would you prefer to manage others or do the work yourself?
The HR directors said his own team is looking for people for human-resources jobs who "can be promoted four, five, six times" and that other departments within G also hire people who are overqualified.
There is much more in the original article, but you'll need to subscribe to read it.
Wall Street Article [online.wsj.com] Note: The Page Is Available Only to Subscribers
[edited by: engine at 5:05 pm (utc) on Oct. 23, 2006]
[edit reason] added subscribers link [/edit]
Yes, I'm sure that G is having to try new things.
1) I received an out-of-the-blue email from a G recruiter who'd seen my CV on-line. I'm not any sort of star/PhD/etc so they must be casting their net wider.
2) The recruiter was after essentially Linux developers and operators as far as I could tell; again not necessarily those armed with Ivy-League PhDs (!), just good solid technical experience.
Rgds
Damon
A good team member is like 100 average team members and a bad team member like -100 good team members. Bad members spread bad culture. I have always tried to hire the best at all possible times. To recruit for an urgent need I interviewed for almost a month. Google certainly knows the Page Rank and Human Rank factor.
Have you ever turned a profit at your own non-tech side business (dog walker, catering, tutoring, etc.)?
How strongly would you describe yourself as someone with an assertive personality?
At work would you prefer to manage others or do the work yourself?
OMG I just gave an interview (LOL), am I selected :)? Just kidding.
Here is another interview which got a lot of diggs gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=299692 (please do not remove the link it is inactive but very useful and its not my site :), thanks)
AjiNIMC
(I don't advise doing a video CV including ballroom dancing and karate! My, how we laughed...)
They laughed when I sent in my video CV. But when I started to dance...
Instantly a tense silence fell on the office. The laughter died on their lips as if by magic. But no. They were laughing so hard, they were making no sound.
Every bathroom stall on the company campus holds a Japanese high-tech commode with a heated seat. If a flush is not enough, a wireless button on the door activates a bidet and drying.
Google is attracting me more and more .........
