Henrik in Seattle

Second Google interview

March 17th, 2006

Now, the second and most likely final phone interview with Google is over. I think my brain was considerably warmer after the interview, partly from trying to think, but most likely more because I had been using my cell phone for one and a half hour straight. I try not to speculate too much about how things have gone, as I can't influence the process now, and I'll know the result soon enough anyway. However, there are two things which I found kind of interesting/funny/frustrating about the interview.

First, one thing which I thought was really funny and interesting was the fact that my interviewer had [googled->http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=googled] me. (Hi Marius, if you read this ) Among other things, he had looked at my post here about my [previous interview->Nervewreck] with Google. I guess I should have expected to be googled when looking for an internship at Google, but the thought actually never crossed my mind. Not even though I myself had googled my interviewer.

Secondly, during the interview, we were discussing some differences between the [research project->No job, but research] I've been working on here at UW and the work my interviewer was doing at Google. Then I claimed some things about the project here at the UW which my interviewer was not aware of. Since he knows the area very well and has read the papers published about the project, I started to doubt what I thought I knew. When I looked into it after the interview however, I realized that the things I was referring to had actually not yet been published. I suppose that gives a good explanation for why he wasn't aware of them.

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