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Hey guys, I'm Jodi Taylor a university program specialist here at Google. And today I'm going to be walking you through a little bit about our interview process.
First, we'll be going over an overview of the interview process and what you can expect when you're going through our interview.
Secondly, I'll be going over how to build a strong response what is the framework you should utilize.
Third, we'll actually have an opportunity to practice a leaked Google interview question together.
And lastly, we'll go over some interview basics. So, Google is made up of incredible people and there are some core central tenets we're looking for as we're hiring folks.
One is how a candidate thinks, how does the candidate use data logic and reasoning as they're responding to a question.
Two is their leadership skills. That doesn't necessarily come in the form of a title. What leadership means is emergent leadership. How are you proactive, how are you taking leadership initiatives on campus or in your job.
Three is role-related knowledge that doesn't necessarily come in the form of an fancy internship. What that means is transferable skills do you have the basic skill set to transfer into the role that you're looking for at Google.
And lastly is googleyness. Googleyness is this really nebulous word that we kind of made up and essentially means intellectual curiosity. It means are you willing to collaborate and wwork with other people and think 10x or at scale. But today in this presentation we're going to be focusing on that first tenant I mentioned which is how a candidate thinks.
So after your resume screen oftentimes we'll be invited to a interview at Google or on the phone and you'll be invited to a GCA interview.
GCA stands for general cognitive ability. And that sounds like a fancy word are really scary phrase, but in reality it's just how do you break down complex problems and come up with really thoughtful solutions.
The GCA interview is broken up into two parts. The first part is a behavioral part of the interview those are past behaviors and assessing those past behaviors.
So a sample behavioral interview question could look like: "tell me about a time when you let a team", "tell me about a time when you communicate it effectively", "tell me about a time when you failed".
The second part of a GCA interview is the hypothetical or situational part of the interview. And those are questions that are assessing real-life Google situations that you may actually face.
We'll walk through that in a second. We ask these questions for really specific reasons.
One it's an evaluation of your problem-solving skills. How are using reasoning and rationale and data to solve complex issues.
Secondly, it's an insight into your working style.
And lastly it's an opportunity to talk through problems that you actually may face at Google or other Googlers have faced in the past.
You may have heard that we ask really complex questions like how many golf balls can fit inside a 747 jet. We actually no longer ask those questions and instead have moved towards those hypothetical or situational questions.
So what is Google assessing when we ask these sorts of hypothetical or situational questions.
One it's your understanding of the question. So oftentimes your interviewer will give you too much or too little information.
We want to make sure that you're understanding the core and central issue so making sure that you're distilling through all of the excess noise and excess words.
And making sure that you're really getting to the core issue at hand.
Second is your preparation strategy. We don't mean how much you study the night before about Google. What we mean is how much information that's been given to you, are you able to actually thoughtfully parse through that information and formulate a coherent and dynamic response.
Third is your ability to identify solutions. So these responses are often open-ended there is no right or wrong way to answer these GCA questions.
More importantly how are you able to identify a solution. Justify that solution and communicate that solution to your interviewer.
So now we're going to walk through a framework of how to build a really strong response.
Please keep in mind that this framework is not prescriptive. There may be some questions that require all of these elements of the framework some questions that only require a couple. We just want you to keep this in mind as you're going through the interview process.
The first part, always take a moment before responding. These questions are often complex or have a few layers. Please make sure that you're taking a moment to respond even feel free to ask the interviewer to repeat the question or say "can I have a moment before responding".
Also feel free to bring pen and paper and write down the question as the interviewer is asking it.
Secondly, ask clarifying questions. Like I said earlier, oftentimes who get too little or too much information. And you want to make sure you're extracting out all the information from the interviewer so that you can appropriately and effectively answer that question.
Third, share logical assumptions once again you're not going to have all the information that you need to answer this question. So you're going to make some logical leaps in order to formulate an appropriate response.
Don't worry we'll go through what this looks like in a second.
Four is show your work. So that doesn't necessarily mean showing your interview your pen and paper with all your notes. What that means is communicating to your interviewer your thought process. Communication is incredibly critical during this time. As you're thinking and as you're iterating through your solution, make sure that of course you're writing it down but also communicating it in a succinct and coherent manner to the interviewer.
So let's say you come up with an incredible solution and you communicate this to your interviewer. Don't just leave it there. Make sure that you consider pros and cons or you think about how you would measure success.
And lastly, tie it back to the role if you can oftentimes these questions are role related meaning that the question that you'll get will be really specific to the role that you're applying for.
And so if you can tie back your answer really nicely to the role that you're applying for.
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