I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jul 2016
Interview
I was recruited via LinkedIn for a Technical Recruiter (FTE) position onsite in Sunnyvale. 1st step was an initial "phone-screen" with the recruiter which was very informal, getting to know me and what my current position entails.
I was notified 2 days later that I would be moving to on-site interviews.
The onsite interview was pretty difficult. I met with 6 different interviewers- it was 4 hours long. The interviews highly emphasized questions surrounding leadership ability and how you can impact higher level people- I would highly recommend being prepared to answer these types of questions.
I then received an email about a week later asking to chat with the recruiter for a status update- I was notified that they would be moving forward with other more qualified candidates.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Tell me about a time where you had to utilize your leadership skills to solve a work related problem.
You are in charge of creating a training and development program at Google... How would you set this up? What would you create? How would you evaluate if your program was successful?
Too many interviews. I declined to continue. If you can’t decide after multiple interviews you have a broken process. I was interviewing for a recruiter role and I didn’t want my candidates to be out in the same position.
Not shortlisted for next rounds but they informed me via email within a week which is good. Hopefully will get a chance next time round. Good experience overall. Applied for multiple roles.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Google
Interview
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You will mostly have 3-4 sometimes 5 rounds of interviews and all of them will test a combination of skills that you've mentioned in the post above.