This is so real, like that honesty. I will share my interview experiences. I attended more than 30 companies and got rejected in all of them, except 2. One company kept me on hold and the other gave me an offer. For a certain time, I handled rejections well and after 4 to 5 months, I eventually lost my confidence and started applying for all companies irrespective of the pay they are ready to offer, it is really hard, I'm bad at coding and most of the times I got rejected in the very first round. Learnings from this is to be prepared, you need to know that concept very well before using it to solve a coding problem, for example: binary search is a searching algorithm, sometimes you may think that this problem requires some extra space to optimize, but the actual optimization might be binary search, if you understand binary search well, you can apply them easily, its all about learning the patterns). Now, Im working as a angular developer and practicing problems in my free time. I have the confidence that one day I will be a better programmer.

Thank you for your insight Shiran, I interviewed with Goggle in July 2021 and got rejected after 6 rounds of interviews. It was nerve wracking and my overall confidence took a toll. Yes later I did came upto terms with it. And I feel all that word by word after hearing your story.

We have to look at it like actors in audition, sometimes we get the part, sometimes we don’t. It’s ok, work on your craft and prepare for the next audition, just do your best. After interviews, don’t think about it anymore. Relax and if they say yes, ok, if not oh well.

This is extremely relatable! Thank you for sharing your experience, specifically about the On-site interviews.

Thank you, Shiron, for your honesty. I've only known you since yesterday and have watched a couple of your videos. What makes you stand out from others is the simple and understandable way you explain everything. Thanks again and keep going.

This was very much needed. Thank you. I have an interview coming up so this was very helpful.

Thanks for sharing. I bombed a West Coast style tech interview a few weeks ago but ended up learning a lot from the interviews. I eventually got a offer I was excited for and I start tomorrow! I think the best piece of advice is accepting that we're not perfect.

The hardest for me is the ego bruising. The fact that you mentioned it just validated my shitty feeling when I got my first ever rejection... (although it was for an internal posting at an already huge company). Wishing you all the best and congrats on the wedding. :)

after more than 40 interviews at Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Amazon over the last year, I think the most important tip to remember is: don't let the "No" bring you down because eventually a 'no' means that you are not the right person for the position, which is the same as saying that this position is NOT RIGHT FOR YOU (yet\ at all). keep learning, keep practicing, and the time will come and you will find the position that you belong to in the company that you belong to. in my case: eventually, I've got the "yes" I've been waiting for, and I'm glad I've got this specific one, not the others, because it suits me best.

What an excellent video and words of wisdom, thank you!

Congrats! Grateful for the effort you put into sharing the knowledge. Thanks

Congrats! Great content, rejection is a learning lesson on where you need to focus more to prepare for your future interviews better. I recently had my Google's interview and even after failing I still feel confident that I can perform and get there, I just need to prepare a little better in the areas where I struggled during the interview.

Hi Shiran, Just wanted to thank you for your videos. I watched a lot of them during my prep and I have offers from Microsoft, Google, and Meta!

Congrats 🤙🏾

Glad to find ur video again

Great pieces of advice! Thanks

Just want to comment that I watched a lot of your videos to prepare for my interviews! I’m interning at Google this fall, and you were a major help! Interviews are also based a lot on luck, so don’t sweat it :)

Hi guy! This is Oscar here from Peru. Thank you for making this type of video. I hope you can make more videos about this.

You are inspiring and very honest! 🥰

Thank you so much for sharing this! Going to have the second interview with Google on April!

Congratulations on the wedding. Thank you so much for this positive and encouraging video.

Great video Shiran! Good to see ya again!

1:30 I believe that you still have to use the google careers site in order to be in the database, I remember a google recruiter saying that (that she can't do anything if you're not in the database) on Clement Mihailescu's channel.

Hi if you don’t mind me asking was the second one through another referral? If so, were both referrals made by the same person?

The real problem is that even if you have done everything perfectly, somehow you get rejected and they don't tell you why. Seriously... I interviewed at Google 5 times already and in the first 3 interviews I completely understand that I didn't perform well and therefore got rejected. I prepared more hoping I can master it. But for the later interviews, I am sure I did pretty well but HC somehow doesn't extend the offer.

when you spoke about rejection, i felt terribly bad (small tear in my eye). But am glad you made this video :)

thanks for sharing your story.

Congratulations 🎉 !

Even I had my Google interview. But last round was quite tough after the system design round. 😢

Congrats on the marriage, as well as getting the offer from Facebook! I will also be joining Facebook soon, but as an intern :)

10am is the brain’s highest focus time in its circadian rhythm - always book technical interviews then. First thing after lunch judges are most lenient - so book non-technical interviews then.

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today finally you are smiling😁 congo mam

Great video Shiran, but first of all, I wish you all the success in the world in your new role of Wife! Now, this video comes at the best time possible as I'm days away from my first Interview with Google, but I must admit that I'm surprised that you didn't get the job at Google twice, you're an extraordinary and gifted programmer, moreover, Google seems to be about candidates who can communicate and explain things well, and you obviously fall in this category.

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I have my google interview lined up too but practically itz not gonna work out for me .....

I have my first interview with google soon and 100% expect to fail. My goal is to get the interview and get some experience to prepare for other interviews with other companies. Personally, I prefer smaller employers. Great video.

Thanks

Remind me again

is gpa important for google interviews

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Oh no! I didn’t get hired by Google I got hired by Facebook instead! Woe is me! How shall I ever survive! That’s a joke. I really liked your videos about this. Google contacted me randomly in May on LinkedIn and scouted me because of my previous work history with big corporations. Like you said They really are open about when you can take the interview because after I passed the phone interview I told them I would be ready to interview in January when I was done with my current project at my current corp and they went along with it. Watching your videos on the subject is part of my intense training to pass the Google interview in 2023. Thanks for sharing! Glad you got a FAANG job! I liked commented and subscribed.Questiom. Because you work for Facebook does that mean you do a lot of react?

I think it would have been awesome to change the text font from the google colors into the blue facebook colors at the enat 10:09

I'm taking up d interview tough so tat i can get to know what facts on work on

Getting rejected a couple times by Google is a common process. First time failure is almost certain if you aren't from a tech company already.

Congratulations

wow that is a ton of interviews! Do you get paid for your time in 7 interviews?

Which level did they start you the interview process for Google? And how many YOE you had?

Such a Great Content...thank u so much!!! your videos are truely inspiration for my dream to work in google....i've one doubt which makes me so anxiety...i've 4 years of experience in software engineering(FULL STACK) in rockwell automation(3years) and siemens(present) in india...now i'm getting ready for google like learing ds and algo, system designing...my question is 1) can i apply google california directly from india 2) do i need to have master's degree for that? 3) am i eligible for google usa?...please clear my doubts!!! by the way big fan from INDIA😇

Congratulations 🎉 for your job and marriage

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Do you think that,DSA is enough to get job at Google

congrats 0:12 :)

Congratulations ma'am,

Its so demoralizing when you said you failed in the first round . Damn , Now I have no hopes .. If you can fail , I'm no one .

More than anything, this story shows that Google failed far more than she did.

The first time I really bombed in an interview hurt a lot. But now I look at it like this: frankly speaking, at the heart of most of these "leetcode" questions is some kind of trick... Sure, sometimes that trick is a generally useful thing... but frequently it's not. If you know the trick, you can answer the problem. If you don't, you cannot. Most of the time when I write code I try to write really simple, obvious code because of this advice: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan. So, in some ways the more trained you are at writing production code, the less prepared you are for leetcode... I have spent my entire life since I was 8 years old building software and trying to write simple code... My brain is NOT optimized for tricky code. Personally, I think you SHOULD ask candidates to write code... but that code should NOT be tricky... It SHOULD require them to use common data structures and techniques, but should NOT require them to to figure out your puzzle. So, you should not feel bad because you bombed a leetcode question. It really doesn't say much about your software engineering ability. All that said, this is the game they want to play... and these jobs pay a LOT... so we gotta learn this nonsense... but don't feel bad about not doing well on a leetcode question.

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the 2nd round always suck

happy marriage :)

Is it even worth to apply for a job in a company, that is leading you through so much interviews ? There are many companies out there, that are looking for sw engineers and they won`t handle you like a dirty towel. 14 interviews is overkill imho. It wastes sooo much time of applicant, that could be used for enhancing their coding skills (and earning nice money) in some other company instead. There is a big demand for SW engineers in the market in general and there are plenty of good paying employers to choose from (imho many of them working on more interesting projects...). Google, Apple and Facebook are not the only ones out there.

Why did you get married?

I was a little shocked that Google hired one of the laziest developers that I had ever met. I guess Google finally figured it out and laid off the lazy developer.

Hi sister can I have your info on social media?

Can i get a referral 😄