google interview...nervous!

[posterboy]

i was wondering if anyone here has interviewed with google's finance dept?

i have a phone interview with them soon and was wondering what kinds of questions i should expect. technical, behavioral etc?

i know i need to go over dcf, valuation methods, and capm.

any other suggestions?

UPDATE:

phone interview went well!
i'm flying to googleplex in mountainview for third round!!!
even more nervous now...

 

[snes tor]

wow... Best of luck.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Get more posts! Your e-penis is not long enough.

 

[posterboy]

thx! wasn't expecting them to even be interested...

you never know!

 

[posterboy]

Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
Get more posts! Your e-penis is not long enough.

?don't comprehend? sorry.

 

[FP]

Originally posted by: posterboy

Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
Get more posts! Your e-penis is not long enough.

?don't comprehend? sorry.

Good. You are well on your way.

 

[George P Burdell]

:thumbsup:

 

[hypn0tik]

As requested.

 

[posterboy]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
As requested.

great advice, which one of those specifically has advice on google's interviewing methods?

 

[hypn0tik]

Originally posted by: posterboy

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
As requested.

great advice, which one of those specifically has advice on google's interviewing methods?

More helpful perhaps?

Seriously, you are interviewing with Google and you don't even know how to use their search engine?

Good luck.

 

[posterboy]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik

Originally posted by: posterboy

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
As requested.

great advice, which one of those specifically has advice on google's interviewing methods?

More helpful perhaps?

Seriously, you are interviewing with Google and you don't even know how to use their search engine?

Good luck.

once again, thanks for trying to help. i've browsed through those alreadyas well; those are it/developer questions...

if you're so good at searching, which i admit i'm not great at...care to find some fin questions?

 

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: posterboy

Originally posted by: hypn0tik

Originally posted by: posterboy

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
As requested.

great advice, which one of those specifically has advice on google's interviewing methods?

More helpful perhaps?

Seriously, you are interviewing with Google and you don't even know how to use their search engine?

Good luck.

once again, thanks for trying to help. i've browsed through those alreadyas well; those are it/developer questions...

if you're so good at searching, which i admit i'm not great at...care to find some fin questions?

http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/000174.html

its the second result for the search

 

[everman]

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

 

[posterboy]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy

Originally posted by: posterboy

Originally posted by: hypn0tik

Originally posted by: posterboy

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
As requested.

great advice, which one of those specifically has advice on google's interviewing methods?

More helpful perhaps?

Seriously, you are interviewing with Google and you don't even know how to use their search engine?

Good luck.

once again, thanks for trying to help. i've browsed through those alreadyas well; those are it/developer questions...

if you're so good at searching, which i admit i'm not great at...care to find some fin questions?

http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/000174.html

its the second result for the search

how are you confused, im confused, i cannot emphasize FINANCE interview questions at google enough.

not IT.

 

[zoiks]

I had applied for a support engineering position there once. Here is the questionaire.

Thank you for your interest in the Technical Support Engineer position on the Enterprise team.



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[posterboy]

Originally posted by: zoiks
I had applied for a support engineering position there once. Here is the questionaire.

Thank you for your interest in the Technical Support Engineer position on the Enterprise team.



We are interested in your resume, and in order to get to know you better, we would like you to complete the brief questionnaire below. We will contact you within a few days of receiving the completed questionnaire to let you know the status of your application.



Please note that we do not expect you to have experience with everything listed.

Here are some guidelines for filling out this questionnaire:



1. If you rate yourself a 10 that means that you wrote and published a book on the subject.



2. If you rate yourself near the higher end of the range (7, 8, 9) then that indicates to us that you are extremely proficient and have deep technical knowledge that you can demonstrate to us.



3. If you rate yourself in the middle of the range (4, 5, 6) that indicates to us that your depth of knowledge is not as strong because you use it infrequently or were proficient at it sometime in the past.



4. If you have NO EXPERIENCE with something that?s fine but please indicate no experience.



I. Operating Systems



How would you rate your hands-on experience in...



Unix/Linux system administration:

Shell scripting:



How many years professional experience do you have working with...



Linux:

Solaris:

Windows:

BSD:

Other:



II. Networking



How would you rate your hands-on experience in...



IP routing:

TCP/IP troubleshooting:

Network security concepts:

DNS configuration and troubleshooting:



How many years professional experience do you have working with...



Ethereal, tcpdump, or other network capture tools:

nmap:

Nessus or other vulnerability assessment tools:



III. Web-related Standards



How would you rate your hands-on experience in...



HTML hand coding:

XML:

XSLT:

Apache configuration:

Single Sign-on Security systems:

Relational database programming:

Relational database configuration and administration



IV. Customer Skills



How many years professional experience do you have with...



Supporting external customers:

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On-site professional consulting:

Project management:

Creating documentation for end users:



Any other customer related experience you would like to mention (please list and rate yourself):



V. Programming/Misc



How would you rate your hands-on experience in...



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thanks! that does provide a little more insight into the behavioral aspect of the interview...

 

[rocadelpunk]

i swear there was a thread on atot or ht about google interview questions.

I remember them being fairly difficult programming questions.

 

[Reckoner]

Tell them your name is Borat and you originate from Kazakhstan.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: posterboy

Originally posted by: zoiks
I had applied for a support engineering position there once. Here is the questionaire.

Thank you for your interest in the Technical Support Engineer position on the Enterprise team.



We are interested in your resume, and in order to get to know you better, we would like you to complete the brief questionnaire below. We will contact you within a few days of receiving the completed questionnaire to let you know the status of your application.



Please note that we do not expect you to have experience with everything listed.

Here are some guidelines for filling out this questionnaire:



1. If you rate yourself a 10 that means that you wrote and published a book on the subject.



2. If you rate yourself near the higher end of the range (7, 8, 9) then that indicates to us that you are extremely proficient and have deep technical knowledge that you can demonstrate to us.



3. If you rate yourself in the middle of the range (4, 5, 6) that indicates to us that your depth of knowledge is not as strong because you use it infrequently or were proficient at it sometime in the past.



4. If you have NO EXPERIENCE with something that?s fine but please indicate no experience.



I. Operating Systems



How would you rate your hands-on experience in...



Unix/Linux system administration:

Shell scripting:



How many years professional experience do you have working with...



Linux:

Solaris:

Windows:

BSD:

Other:



II. Networking



How would you rate your hands-on experience in...



IP routing:

TCP/IP troubleshooting:

Network security concepts:

DNS configuration and troubleshooting:



How many years professional experience do you have working with...



Ethereal, tcpdump, or other network capture tools:

nmap:

Nessus or other vulnerability assessment tools:



III. Web-related Standards



How would you rate your hands-on experience in...



HTML hand coding:

XML:

XSLT:

Apache configuration:

Single Sign-on Security systems:

Relational database programming:

Relational database configuration and administration



IV. Customer Skills



How many years professional experience do you have with...



Supporting external customers:

Supporting internal customers:

On-site professional consulting:

Project management:

Creating documentation for end users:



Any other customer related experience you would like to mention (please list and rate yourself):



V. Programming/Misc



How would you rate your hands-on experience in...



C++:

Java:

Python:

Perl:

PHP:

JavaScript:

Shell programming:



Please confirm your degree(s):



School:

Degree:

Major:

GPA:



Please rate you fluency for the following: (use a 1-5 scale)



English:

Read

Write

Spoken



Any other languages:

Read

Write

Spoken

thanks! that does provide a little more insight into the behavioral aspect of the interview...

Jesus fvcking christ.

 

[imthebadguy]

Originally posted by: posterboy
i was wondering if anyone here has interviewed with google's finance dept?

i have a phone interview with them soon and was wondering what kinds of questions i should expect. technical, behavioral etc?

i know i need to go over dcf, valuation methods, and capm.

any other suggestions?

meh its not an ibank, i doubt they'd ask dcf, valuation, capm, etc.... obvi cant hurt to know it but id think firstrounds are mostly behavorial

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

I hope you're not in adwords/adsense.

 

[imported_Trippin315]

Originally posted by: everman
What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

African or European?

 

[tami]

truthfully, don't hold your breath. the interview process is 4-5 interviews long. i can imagine most people surviving maybe 2-3, but make sure to consider that the odds are against you. they usually interview 30 candidates for a single position.

i survived some interviews, but i didn't make the more technical ones, which was pretty stupid given that i didn't have a problem answering the questions

anyway, also take these recent statistics with a grain of salt:
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index...06/10/23/google-gets-easier-on-hiring/

be very well prepared... that is what i'd advise.

 

[tami]

by the way, posterboy, each department interview is different... the financial interview will likely have NOTHING to do with the interview material that zoiks posted.

my interviews were via phone only. they like to know who you are, why you want to change jobs (if that's the case), what you can bring to the table, etc. then they get more technical in each successive interview. i cannot say what they will ask you on your second interview if you go that far as it's different per department, but your first interview will likely be with a recruiter who is going to just get a sense of who you are what if you're worth considering by the company.

 

[SoftwareEng]

I turned down a marketing director job at Google to get my second PhD in spatio-temporal dynamics of second messengers in visual transduction at Harvard