双语对照 - 面试背后的故事之Google

There are many scary stories floating around about Google interviews, but it’s mostly just that: stories The interview is not terribly different from Microsoft’s or Amazon’s However,  because Google HR can be a little disorganized, we recommend   being proactive in communication

外面有很多关于Google面试的恐怖传闻，但那些只是传闻。Google的面试和之前说的微软和亚马逊的差别并不会非常的大。唯一不同的是Google的人力资源部门稍微有点散漫，所以我建议积极主动的和他们联系。

A Google engineer performs the first phone screen,  so expect tough technical questions On your on-site interview, you'll interview with four to six people, one of whom will be a lunch interviewer   Interviewer feedback is kept confidential from the other interviewers, so  you can be assured that you enter each interview with blank slate Your lunch interviewer  doesn’t submit feedback, so this is a great opportunity to ask honest questions 

Google的面试也是从电话面试开始，来面试你的人是Google的工程师，所以准备好回答棘手的难题吧。当你去Google公司参加面试的话，将有4到6个人来面你，其实一个是陪你吃饭的面试官。这些面试官之间是绝对不能相互透露面试的情况，所以当每一轮面试的时候面试官对你的认识都是从零开始的。刚才提到陪你吃饭的面试官是不会影响你录用结果的，所以把握这个机会好好问他几个你真正关心的问题。

Written feedback is submitted to a hiring committee of engineers to make a hire/no-hire  recommendation   Feedback is typically broken down into four categories (Analytical Ability, Coding, Experience and Communication) and you are given a score from 1 0 to 4 0 overall

面试的评分将会以书面的形式会提交给由Google工程师组成“招聘委员会”，让他们来决定是否录用。评分主要包括这四大类组成：分析能力，代码能力，工作经验和沟通技巧。评分在1.0~4.0之间。

The hiring committee understands that you can’t be expected to excel in every interview,  but   if   multiple   people   raise   the   same  red flag (arrogance, poor coding skills,  etc), that can disqualify you A hiring committee typically wants to see one interviewer who is an “enthusiastic endorser ”   In other words, a packet with scores  of  3.6, 3.1, 3.1 and 2.6 is better than all 3.1s  Your phone screen is usually not a strong factor in the final decision

"招聘委员会”是绝对理解你不可能在每轮面试都发挥得很好，但是如果多个面试给你亮了红牌（表现的傲慢，代码写的很烂等等），那么你肯定就被拒了。“招聘委员会”查看评分的时候更希望看到有一个对你格外喜欢的人。换句话说，得分3.6 3.1 3.1 2.6 比都4个3.1分要好一些(虽然平均分是一样的)。到了这一步刚开始的电话面试对录取与否是没什么影响了。

The Google hiring process can be slow If you don’t hear back within one week, politely ask your recruiter for an update A lack of response says nothing about your performance

Google的招聘的流程比较的慢，所以如果一周之后还是未收到任何消息，可以给人力资源相关的工作人员写封信打听下最新的情况。没有消息你是绝对不能知道自己表现得如何的。

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Definitely Prepare: As a web-based company, Google cares about how to design a scalable system. So, make sure you prepare for questions  from “System Design and Memory Limits”  Additionally, many Google interviewers will ask questions involving Bit Manipulation, so please brush up on these questions.

What’s Different:   Your interviewers do not make the hiring decision.  Rather, they enter feedback which is passed to a hiring committee. The hiring committee recommends a decision which can be—though rarely is—rejected by Google executives.

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