<story><title>Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job</title><url>http://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dframe</author><text>I have a serious question : If google uses a person&amp;#x27;s search results internally to determine that they are a person of interest for hiring, whose to say they aren&amp;#x27;t using a similar process to strip Intellectual property from searches as it relates to projects they are working on?&lt;p&gt;i.e : They are internally working on self driving cars and, in particular, are looking for ways to integrate algorithm &amp;#x27;X&amp;#x27; in their solution. So, google decides to setup a special filter for searches related to certain profiles that search for &amp;#x27;X and self driving ....Results get fed to the group conducting the work. In effect, allowing them to internally see what &amp;#x27;profiles of interest&amp;#x27; are up to as it relates to Google&amp;#x27;s flagged area of interest.&lt;p&gt;It would appear that this could easily be made &amp;#x27;legal&amp;#x27; under the premise that the individuals are anonymized. However, it does give google a unique advantage in being able to see &amp;#x27;what everyone is up to&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;The fact that they are already using people&amp;#x27;s specialized searches for flagging them for interviewing makes me strongly believe they are already internally snagging people&amp;#x27;s searches&amp;#x2F;clicked links to give them advantage on projects.&lt;p&gt;I think everyone should take a pause and consider the implications of this as they are quite damning.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Has a Secret Interview Process and It Landed Me a Job</title><url>http://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>x00gler123</author><text>So first of all this is not &amp;quot;a secret&amp;quot; at all and you don&amp;#x27;t need to be &amp;quot;special&amp;quot; to do it. And of course you don&amp;#x27;t get targeted personally but they do an automated&amp;#x2F;anonymous match on your search history. It&amp;#x27;s just one of many inbound HR&amp;#x2F;recruiting funnels and it was featured in an internal newsletter that went out to all of Eng some time ago.&lt;p&gt;Second, they tell every applicant that openly discussing the interview process (esp blogging about it) will get you disqualified&amp;#x2F;blacklisted from any future positions at google. So if you have posted this before your first day and didn&amp;#x27;t discuss it with your recruiter&amp;#x2F;hr person at the G, it was probably not a very smart move.&lt;p&gt;PS: It really isn&amp;#x27;t too hard to get into their interview process. If you create a github account and push some code one of their recruiters will probably approach you after a while. You can also just send them your CV and I am pretty sure you get the same process&amp;#x2F;treatment as anybody else.</text></comment>