Google is a prestigious company, pays well, has terrific benefits, pampers employees with perqs, and (back when the market was moving in the right direction) had highly attractive stock options to pass out. Information Technology professionals are consequently very eager to apply for openings at Google, but Google insiders are notoriously egomanaical and capricious, and even fewer job interviews than usual seem to end favorably when Google is the prospective employer.
So notorious is the “rejected by Google” experience, that it seems a new literary genre (kind of in the spirit of the satires of Martial) describing “How I Blew my Google Interview” has been identified by Henry Blodget.
Hat tip to Karen Myers.
Dominique R. Poirier
There is something useful I learned from this amusing article:
I’ll never waste my time sending my application to Google…
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