Interviewed for Developer Advocate for Google cloud India. It took around 2 months to just complete 3 rounds of interview, incredibly slow process but I like the recruiting team approach to provide resources and let us chose time 2-3 weeks for each round. What I didn't like was feedback after interview was very slow and it may take up to 10days. Role was developer advocate for GCP which requires a very deep domain knowledge in cloud architecture and also expert level coding ( not sure why, but its there requirement !!) ,i've already stated my coding skills are not comparable to a software engineer they would expect for Google but they assured that they will only check problem solving skills rather actual solution. First virtual round was taken by DA for one hour, includes a coding question ( I did very average, with help from the interviewer ) and did well in cloud domain which is my strong area. After clearing first round recruiter prepared me for next two independent rounds by DA and HM but recruiter asked me to focus more on cloud technologies and less importance to coding. Both rounds took place in two consecutive days and covered questions from cloud technologies and a coding question , I did well with domain questions but again average with coding rounds ( I have given a working solution that I could think in that 20 mins , but later after interview found a best solution ...... but who cares :-) ). Rejected with same feedback saying that i'm not good at coding, although hands on coding not expected at job. very wired level of evaluation where you are rejected for something that is not needed at job, I could see some people from their Linkedin profiles that they have joined Google in sales domain ( obviously no coding rounds for them ) but now in Google Cloud as solution engineering managers. They could take 7-10 days to think about a person for clearing to next round, but I was given only 20 mins to solve a problem . I dont know what companies are trying to achieve by evaluating candidates based on their memory to solve the problems rather looking at their potentiality . My suggestion : If you want to hire DA for GCP , please stick to that rather trying to get everting from a single person. A good DA will never be good at algorithms & DS so that he can dependent on cloud services for that and advocates the same. A good coder will never try to look for services that will remove coding from his job. Both traits are different and doesn't exists at same time.

It was a fun experience . The recruiter was kind and helpful. Interview was multiple stage and a final on site. It was a fun experience . The recruiter was kind and helpful. Interview was multiple stage and a final on site.