In last semester’s Software Engineering class, I had a classmate who was an intern at Google. We both went to the Google Information Session a while back, where I got a sweet, sweet Google shirt. Anyway, he was awesome enough to offer to forward my resume internally. After a few weeks and some other paperwork, I’ve been offered a phone interview!
I’m not too sure how many people get to this point, but I’m pretty stoked about it. I’ve read that the interviews are pretty hard, though they really should be. I mean, it’s Google, after all! I should be getting a date for the phone interview very soon. Until then, I think I’ll try and brush up on my algorithms, asymptotic analysis, probability, and combinatorics! Don’t fail me now, Introduction to Algorithms!
I’m feeling lucky!
Good luck on your interview! When I interviewed with Google, their HR was rather disorganized, so the whole interview process moved along really slowly.
So you used Leiserson’s textbook (we called it the “CLR book”) at your school, too? He was the lecturer the semester I took Algorithms, and he did a really good job teaching the material, unlike some distinguished university faculty who have to teach classes as part of their tenure.
Thanks. Yeah, I used that book. I have the international version so it’s not quite as hefty. I had a really hard teacher, which is probably a good thing.
I’m probably going to be reading this thing down before I do the interview.