I Asked Googlers How To Get Hired
Today, I walk around Google headquarters and ask Google software engineers how to get into Google and if they have any other advice. You'll want to watch till the end because many of these engineers have over 10 years of experience and interview candidates like you every single day. Today, they finally reveal all their secrets.
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So what the actual f is a software engineer?? Why do they need so many? I want to code to make my own products and sell them. Wtf are all these people solving problems for?
How to get hired by Google: 1) Work for a competing start-up. 2) Wait for Google to acquire.
3.) Be brown
@@applepeel1662nope get skills
4) be indian
I interviewed, got hired as a contractor, then converted to FTE in after 4 months. quit after 7 years for a competitor
@@Jordan-lz2ww 5) Identify as a panoramicTransatlanticsexual
Every 4th guy in Google campus is just a random Indian software engineer getting his coffee 😅
gotta take them breaks
lololol
@@namanhkapur😢its just population and salary problems
Its because indians will quietly work tons of unpaid hours.
😂😂😂
"just be yourself" Never worked for me at any of the dozens and dozens and dozens of companies I've interviewed for.
Yeah it can be a challenge, you have to actively improve your resume and then embellish your achievements a bit
What they don't tell you, is that you need to be what they want you to be and not yourself. Take it from someone that's been through about 12 jobs so far and is not in the US.
@@xirlio8532 Yep. Probably explains why tech workers, on their social media accounts, almost always seem to parrot the exact same politics down to the smallest grain of coordinated agreement.
Maybe consider the hard truth that your current self does not meet the qualifications or expectations of the interviewer; assess, improve and return.
before interview : we focus on basic stuff interview : do these 3 hard leetcode in O(30 min), oh and design the architecture of youtube, also what was your hardest project ?
😭
😅😅😅oh myy
Finally also google needs people who are able to get work done. Coding is often enough part of working in IT.
What is O(30min) 😂 like it's O(size of the quest)..
And by the way basic KZhead's prototype is kinda easy if you get rid of all the specifics.
next video: interviewing people who've been laid off by Google
Yes much wanted 😅
Honestly he should do that. He needs to interview folks at high and low levels who got laid off to see the overall spectrum compared to people Google kept on the job just to see theyre full of shit.
It’s hard to get into google , my brother in law is greatly qualify, he aced the interview and everything, but they told him they would be considering him for an opening as a Software Developer. Since he knew he wasn’t gonna get hired he used that recommendation to get hire somewhere else with a good pay and less stress
Thats honestly awesome! If I can ask, how did he do that? Did he go to another interview and say "yeah it's either this or Google" Or something like that?
@@LivingGuy484 he told them exactly that , he was a prospective candidate at google and that he had passed his interview and was waiting on their response…honestly speaking I don’t think he ever wanted to be hired by google
That’s def the play. Use google offer letter to go somewhere else.
Clever :D
@@desordenpublicoyour BIL out here playing 4D chess
Note how half of these people came from startups that were bought out by Google. Keep that in mind. If you are competing with Google in any way, THAT is your application to Google. You have a leg up on most other applicants. If Google buys you out, congratulations, you now work for Google. If Google decides not to buy you out, they are at least familiar with your work. In fact, Google might prefer to buy the talent instead of buying the project. Just keep an eye out for the optimal strategy. If Google really wants to take your startup off the market, you want to stay with your startup. If Google just wants to destroy the startup you work for (and you don't own equity in the startup) you might consider making yourself available to Google instead.
Very informative comment.
I second this, I know some and same thing happened with them, Google bought the start up and they work for google now without any interviews
You can find out all this same stuff literally by getting an interview at Google and reading their preparation materials. These people were basically saying, these are the ways we sort good candidates from bad ones. They did not say, these are the ways we sort good candidates from the one who is picked for the job. Very, very different.
Thats what i was thinking. Pretty generic advice
in the end it is something that has to do with the moment and how many candidates they got, they will choose the best ones obviously
It isn't really about skill or degree it about who you know" facts right there another tech youtuber had said the same connections do matter in this industry.
@@ahevjadon2387You are right 💯 , my current job cost me $3000 to get after i was job frustrated for years . Now I earn 12k monthly as a junior developer 😂.. its all about connections now .
@@ahevjadon2387You are right 💯 , my current job cost me $2k to get after i was job frustrated for years . Now I earn 12k monthly as a junior developer 😂.. its all about connections now .
Good set of interviews, and particularly how they edited into groups.
Keep up the good work man, a heartfelt gratitude for your efforts
Amazing fact is that if i ask people in india how they got job in indian google office they tell they did lot of leetcode questions, networking , computer networks to get into the google . But in foreign it feels like you just have to learn basics .
Because the foreigners are lying; they won’t give actual effective advice because they don’t want the competition
Its the same in America too. These people in the video got hired a long time ago. Things have changed
That's pretty much the standard everywhere for a faang job.
Well its the Google Headquaters in USA, all the big shots and the mains like, product managers,sales heads stay there. the heavy lifting, coding,software development work is passed to india ,china etc
well it's the main campus, they mostly do the RnD work here and pass development stuff to other campuses in china/india.
Thank you Namanh for creating such a informative video. Kudos to your efforts
Honestly they’re lying half the time. What they’re NOT saying is your school, the name of the company you worked for, and how likeable you are plays a big part
nope if you're good you're good. my uncle went to a small school and works for google.
@@LordMufasa14 naive
Google does not care about those stupid stuff there is a youtuber who called neetcode he got rejected in so many companies but get into google since his basics were strong , You dont get pick up in google because the competition so strong not because you study in good school or shit like this
@@abdelkrim6317 thanks. that is inspiring
@@LordMufasa14 you're assuming every engineer is a perfectly trained objective interviewer which (surprise) is absolutely not true.
Here we go again, nice vid and motivations thanks man
always
Great video as always!
I think a big take away of this and I also fall to this trap earlier, that it is not enough if you have a great tech skills, you need to sell yourself in some way. Proper communication and presentation skills also a required soft skill which need to be acquired, because the interviewers are not read-minder if you can't present your skills they don't know if you have it.
CONGRATS on 200K subscribers!
thanks bro
8:20, why did you cut that guy off, I wanted to hear what else he had to say 😭really needed to hear that though, love your channel man
During the interview: here "Find the critical and pseudo critical edges in a Minimum Spanning Tree".
haha
Its very easy to say just be yourself and know the basics, in real world they won't even shortlist the resume if you don't have good collage background, and now a days they expect coding practice that is again far from real work what we do in actual job.
bro, ofc they search the best of the best. what do you think? big billion dollar company wants noobs? if you are really good in what you do, even without good background you can get in their, because you can show them, that you can. but if you are totally normal. why should they take YOU. WHY YOU instead of 100.000 other people. you cant expect google to take normal people with normal experience, to work in one of the best tech companies of the world. bro rethink yourself.
@@marinbagaric4755🦒
Again another great video! Keep it up :)
thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for the video ❤
Amazing insight!!! thanks for the info
i really think its all about who you know in IT. i have a lot of friend who are Tech Managers etc. these companies literally hire from employee recommendations, and they're in bed with ivy league schools > those students get picked up for internships. so for us peasant folks, we'll never ever get hired.
Mate you are inspiring me ❤
no u
I would also love to know what those successful interviewees don’t do 🤔
Nobody of the people you've interviewed mentioned networking, being friends with people already working in the company, or being likeable in general. If you know anything about job market you have to understand that this is maybe the only thing that might get you hired.
Networking? Like who doesn't know networking? It's the very basic of software engineering and hacking. If you don't know the basics how do you expect to get into a company?
Networking as in knowing people dumbass.
@@sumiuma5756 They aren't Networking as in tech terms genius, they're referring to networking with people already in the company. They literally state that in their comment.
@@sumiuma5756 by networking he meant having links with real people
Great video and very insightful. I would personally recommend turning down the background music audio abit. It can be slightly distracting when my ears are trying to focus on what the interviewees are saying.
These videos are just good for creating youtube content
"How did you end up here at Google?" "Well you know, everyone was just over hiring. So me and a couple people ended up here that way" lol killed me
95% of these engineers cant even pass the google interviews process right now if they took it today.
100% That’s why new engineers are so burnt out and unhappy
Bruh, this is 100% the truth.
But who cares, like they are still inside and doing stuff that really matters.
@@manishsinghbangari yeah , so truee
They need to face interviews when it comes to switching companies. 😉
Thank you for doing this great video. This motivated me on pursuing my software engineering dream though I am 33 years old.
Me too and after non IT jobs I am getting into coding :)
@@shreyaakaranjkar8459can you tell how you practice and where
@@nithin6654 😊getting into coding, havent got job yet. But I will sure. I am learning through a professional, sir, my friend had introduced me. And sometimes through youtube and blogs. But problems on yt is everyone follows a different method, so it seems confusing, so if u are learning through yt then follow only one channel and when u are done with entire course then watch others, otherwise u will get confused. All the best.
I have peers older than that as well in my classes in college. Forge onward brother!
Honestly it isn’t worth it
this is the best video ever
my inspiration right here ^
Google is not "all that" its just one company. Many organizations out there have just as good opportunities. Nobody should think of google as the end all be all. That os how you become your own worst enemy. Just be passionate about what you do, get good at it and always be willing to learn and practice different things. That will lead you to many amazing opportunities for many different companies.
Google do seem to be all that honestly… I agree with what you said after, tho.
In principle I agree with you. But I work at Google and find it hard to imagine any other companies with a better balance of salary and life. Based on discussion with friends. For some people Facebook may offer a better balance (higher pay) but that's it.. not too many exits that outdo Google in this way.
@pb25193 my thing is, if you can get a job there cool. But that should not be the end all be all. Google will only always find you expendable no matter the skillset. Having tunnel vision where your eye is only ever set on Google will undoubtedly lead to failure as per my first comment. There are pros and cons to working for FAANG. And this is one of them. Multiple contacts of mine who are there van attest to that. Best advice is to obsess over learning new things to enhance your career, not one company. That's all :)
@@pb25193 Just curious, would you add or change anything compared to what the engineers here said regarding landing Google positions?
Bro literally interviewing google interviewers 😂😂
If I was getting interviewed at Google and all the senior/department heads only have 2 years at Google. I would just walk out. That signals to keep that they have a retention problem most likely from not respecting their workers time and pay.
Well Google treats a lot of the senior level individual contributor titles as a terminal level. So lot of people don’t get promoted and it’s getting hard to swap teams internally so people start to leave when they don’t receive more pay or promotions.
This was such an inspiring video. When the senior software engineer said people tend to get into it at 35 he was def talking to me!!!!
I’m not good at communicating / talking to people plus I’m really shy so these interviews don’t work for me . I’m currently a software engineer but I got in through a college program . My company was hiring junior engineers through that program and there wasn’t a technical interview for these applicants .
Your company sounds like a dream place to be🔥. Mind sharing the name?
Same. I'm awkward, really awkward, but I managed to get a job through an internship. I talked about cyclopia (one eyed babies) and how they're linked to historic monsters in the interview, because they asked me what my latest thought about the world was. I was nervous so I just told them truthfully and regretted it straight after. Luckily they found it funny instead of off-putting. They told me I was fun to talk to. They picked students to the interview based on their grades, after that we were given a small project to finish that had to be presented. And finally after that they picked their interns. I really liked that you could show your technical skills/ability to learn at home, it was less stressful.
@@kitcat2449cyclopia during a tech interview is hilarious. You are a funny person.
@@aronianspigonian8589 I'm glad they thought so too. I was sure I blew it because of that 😆 We have interesting coffee break discussions
Interesting. Sounds like they like the same thing in their interview process that MSFT did in mine decades ago. Tech changes all the time, so handling thinking through how you would applying tech is much more important. I would also be sure you can defend your selections. Sounds like they want people that think tradeoffs and options, not play back the party line.
OUTRO was sooo good lol
Tqs to making this, career advising vlog , it's my dream company ❤
Great content Namanh!
thanks!!
It always gives me hope and makes me reinvigorated in my studying when I hear someone say people in their 30s get jobs at places like google. I'm 33 am always afraid I'm too old even with work experience in software engineering.
33 too old? Jeez. Ya you should be retired by now with millions 😂 in all seriousness you’re definitely not too old.
@@eliana993 I always heard ageism was really bad in the tech world. 😅😂 and thanks 🙏
Please make a video on data scientists/data analysts at Google
“Just be yourself” and “just know the basics” LMAOOOO
the real secret was revealed in the first 40sec in the video, everyone has over 10 years of experience as you said, meaning rookies has no place in google, i guess i don't really need to stay and watch the whole video, thanks for the info tho!
No, it depends on the school you went to. And, a lot of times it takes people three try’s to get into Google.
@@yoBANNANA Highly doubt it its the school, its multiple years of experience, connection, these are the only things you need to land a job in big corporate companies, school is the last thing they would like to inquire about, thats an old school mentality.
@@Dolbic. I literally in school rn and getting those internships have a lot to do with what school u go to. I’m saying this for student route people only. Ik people at Google in which the school they attended helped them get the job.
@@yoBANNANA Again it does not really, im sorry to break this to you, and i know you will disagree with me, but no university and college degree will help you in landing jobs like google, however, graduating from universities like MIT or Havard, oxford...etc will land you a job because of the recommendation the university send to certain places or because the professor recommended you. And that goes back to my point which is connections, you will enroll through connections not a degree, and connections with no experience will land you intern positions with low chance of securing an actual position with in the company. thats reality, right now no one cares about degrees, because no one trust anyone, they only trust valid sources that says good things about you AKA connections...
3:18 think abt scalability, realiability- solve long term problems, not shorttime probs.
Communication n soft skills Practice Slow and steady process Think bigger Focus on basics
I'm going to graduate this year in Electrical Engineering and just enrolled to Computer Science, hope I can work on one of these great companies one day...
rooting for you
@@namanhkapur thanks a lot man. I'm rooting for you too. Hope you can become a Java master soon, nice learning stream hehe
why would you do computer science after electrical engineering lmao. Electrical engineering is enough for you to get a job.
@@jfht318 Well the thing is, I am graduating from a federal university that consumed a lot of time and taught almost nothing besides Assembly for PIC16f877a and the basics of basics of Python. So I enrolled into an EAD university that gives freedom to make my own schedules, just respecting the dates to submit the assignments and related things that would not stop me to get a full time job and give the opportunity to learn something from specialized teachers while giving a degree focused on what I'm loving. Everything I'm learning is self taught until now and probably will keep being like this in the majority of the process but who knows if I don't just drop from it if I get a job with good salary, it's just for insurance measures, I don't want to feel any regrets.
@@jfht318 it is also on of the hardest to get a degree for.
thanks..this was needed😌
thanks for watching!
What do they mean by ' basics '?
Google has a lot of non tech jobs fyi. Also my tips would be consistently updating your resume and LinkedIn and network network network.
Do resume gaps (long or short) matter for getting hired at Google or other big tech companies?
Nobody said anything... they didn't give secrets about what program to use to advance your career, for example in Python or something like that.
Thanks a lot 👍 🙏
KZhead should recommend this to me again
I needed this video today. Think ill get off youtube and get back to the grind..
Best way to get hired at any tech job is lie really good but be extremely charming doing so.
Amazing share 😊
It isn't really about skill or degree it about who you know" facts right there another tech youtuber had said the same connections do matter in this industry.
Bro, am i need to going for college for being pro at software/embedded engineer.. or anything else likes about IT/tech..
I have a gap of 1.5 years and been learning web development mean while. struggling to get into the tech industry. Any tips.
Can you provide any ways to connect with them?like Linkedin
don't have their info :(
8:40 the ultimate best advice for every single human being out there. not just for becoming a software engineer or working at google. "IT's FINE to be late than sticking into something you don't love". try your best to explore more and find your passion rather than sticking into something you think is safe. It's fine to be late as long as you found what you wanted to do.
Thank you :))
I came here just for that
Indian chips person is really nice.
Im willing to bet that if you took all these people who are at Google. And they went through 12 interviews right now just to see if they can pass them... Even after having got the job at google. Id say they'd fail on average at least 8 of the interviews even now. It's a luck ride. If they ask the leetcode question you memorized your good. If not your screwed. So it's basically a slot machine getting into google. Yes you have to be at least average at coding. but beyond there its a luck ride.
Yeah it’s partially luck but also just knowing how to solve problems. There are likely a lot of crappy interviewers so you have to get lucky with one that wants to test how you attempt to solve a problem and if an early career engineer they want to see how you take direction.
Hi everyone, need a little info. I’m a java & react js developer with 4+ years of experience and trying to crack big tech company interviews. Some KZheadrs are suggesting to use python for coding interviews so that we can complete the coding questions with less effort . So, I started grinding leetcode with python. But I’m little confused -- as a experienced developer I’m applying for Full stack /java/UI developer roles in company portals and my concern is that - in my coding interview, can I use python in it even though I’m a java and js developer? And if anyone knows what kind of interview rounds do we have for experienced candidates, please share.
I am a linux admin, what kind of job roles available for my profile at google?
how to become engineering manager?????
i just intern at startup company is that a sign for me too?
Startups, DSA, Passion
That Chinese guy is humble😂 he said it was purely overhiring !
In my humble opinion, Virendra is the man!!
No chance for newbie
To even get into Google interview you need connections or a good college
Is the job market still obsessed with MANG employers? Even after the bulk layoffs this year?
one thing i understood is communication is very very important
idk why I read the title as a googeloper but I think im actually gonna start calling it that now
So basically have a computer science degree and work for a startup that gets acquired by google or other well established software company before applying. Got it, thanks
did someone say just a senior software engineer what the f bruh that's hard bro to be in that state damn
What about concepts of free speech and personal liberty?
I was a Technical Sourcer. My whole job was sourcing top tech talent. 90+ % of the people who work for google were likely scouted. It's almost a waste of time to apply unless you're CRAZY talented and if you're that talented they're likely already looking at you.
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Can I ask something.....that after BCA can I join software developer and a job from Google ....like that I'm actually confused as student ......😢
I am learning digital marketing currently, is it possible for me to get a job at google?
Amazing to see most of the indians there 🔥❤
how they apply in google ?
is degree necessary to get an it job
Step 1: accept that your salary comes from doggy ads you would never click on yourself
just general tips anyone can say it, no useful infos and normal people still don't know 'How To Get Hired', it's same as saying 'work hard and follow ur dream' "don't stop ever even if ur tired", "learn the basics" ect..
The background music is too loud
I know the guy named Virendra. He is from Texas A&M.
hey @srinisbir8781 Yes, the name is a bit off :) A colleague of mine found this video and shared with me. It was good meeting you Namanh!
@Career_Growth_Teaching you are from IIT gauhati, right? Does Himanshu from Texas ring a bell to you? I can not get more explicit than this. But i was able to recognize you after sooo long. I have narrowed the list of possibilities for you to figure out who i might be.😄😁
The good old days are gone.
why
@@namanhkapur you have a business based on this fake eldorado, that will lead people into McDonalds instead of FAANG
@@namanhkapurthe competition is fierce and now the market is crashing. good luck on finding your job. also since huge no. of folks are applying be ready to be grilled on toughest questions.
yeah, in this new era of internet everyone's getting the exposure that only first world country kids used to get, so the competition is tough
@@akajdjsk766I have found third world countries having cheapest way to get certified and get knowledge since the last 20 years. It's more costlier to go to school in first world country
It sounds way easier than it really is
Thank you
@1:27 ok so you got lucky
I apply for Google everytime... At the beginning only they'll reject me🤣🤣
the over hiring guy was like i hot here by luck 😂