Google can call you even if your participation was not good. I solved just 1 problem and google called me, I failed their test anyway but it was a good experience overall and the recruiter tells you can re-apply when you are ready again contacting him.
If you think a little about this, just being here shows that you are interested on programming challenges. You probably have the potential to beat the problems with a little practice. I liked to compete in the acm icpc too, but in my university, competing was a bit against you because it takes study time while Calculus is beating you off :D On Thursday, May 9, 2013 8:38:11 AM UTC-4, Stanislav Zholnin wrote: > My thoughts: > > a) it definitely should help, at least when you are finalist. > > b) performance at competitions is important but not the only thing Google > looks for (because at Google you sometimes need to do some other staff, not > only competing at competitions ;)) > > c) b means that Google might be more willing to hire somebody from 15th place > because he/she has specific set of skills in addition to competition > performance than somebody from 5th place who does nothing but competitions in > his life. > > d) Say US think lawyers. So any employee at Google is told to be extremely > cautious when talking about potential job prospects (my guess), because the > moment you tell somebody "Yes, sure Google hires" you open yourself for > potential lawsuit in case Google does not want to hire, say, winner of the > contest. Because this is considered to be constructed obligation and there is > risk of being forced to hire by judge. Of course reasonable behavior for > Google is to avoid giving any promises. > > e) I don't think Google recruiters look and assess candidates beyond 25 > finalist. That would be too much work. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-code/-/JXpU5HBWehYJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
