How To Get Into Google - 6 Tips That'll Get You In (as a software engineer)

what's up everybody how's it going in this video I'm gonna be sharing six tips on how you can win a job as a software engineer at Google these tips are really gonna apply to any big tech company by the way not just Google I worked at Google as a software engineer for a little over two years I went through the entire application process to get into Google so I have a lot of knowledge on this matter and I'm really hoping that these six steps would cover the entire sort of application process and application lifecycle are gonna be really helpful for you with that said let's dive into it so the first tip has to do with when to apply to Google or rather what you need to be ready to apply to Google I get a lot of people who come to me and who tell me clements Google is my dream company I want to be a software engineer at Google but I'm not applying yet because I'm not ready yet maybe I'm not a good enough software engineer yet or maybe I don't have enough experience yet and therefore I am NOT applying to Google as of right now because I am not already and that always surprises me because truth be told and this is tip number one the only thing that you need to be ready to apply to Google for a software engineering role is to know how to code well enough to take and pass the coding interview so that's really all you need now don't get me wrong I'm not trying to trivialize getting into Google I'm not trying to make it seem like it's super easy and anybody can do it know there's a lot of other stuff that comes into play and I'm gonna be talking about it in the following tips but truthfully as far as being ready to apply all you need is to know how to code well enough to take and pass the coding interviews I'm a good example of this I applied for my job at Google right around five months after I wrote my very first line of code ever and I had a few software engineering projects on my resume I'll talk about that in the next tip but all that I had otherwise was that I knew how to code well enough to take and pass the coding interviews if I had told myself I'm not a good enough software near yet which I could have right I could have told myself I have no work experience I'm not knowledgeable enough about all the areas of computer science and software engineering that exist I would have never applied and I would have never gotten in to Google so once again tip number one if you know how to code well enough to take and pass the coding interviews you are ready to apply to Google this brings us to tip number two when you're applying to Google no matter what application channel you go through you're gonna need to sell yourself you're gonna need to convey to the recruiters who are going through your application that you are worthy of being interviewed and typically we're not even typically but all the time this is done through your resume now I made a video where I went very much in-depth into the exact resume that got me into Google if you haven't seen it yet I would encourage you to check it out after you're done with this video I'll put the link in the description and in the comments below but as far as this tip here goes tip number two I think that all you need on your resume is if you have no work experience in software engineering I would say three software engineering projects on your resume and if you do have work experience let's say even just six months at a company even if it's a not well known company I would say that one software engineering project to go with that work experience is gonna be what you need to convey to those recruiters that you're worthy of being interviewed now if you need software engineering project ideas I also made a video on that I'll put the link in the description and comments below if you haven't seen it already I would really encourage you to check it out but the key point that I want to make here which kind of goes hand-in-hand with tip number one is that these software engineering projects let's say you need to make three you need to have three software engineering projects on your resume because you have no work experience if I take the three software engineering projects out of the four that I had on my resume that I was most proud of right the three that I think were really good they took me in total about three weeks to make and finish so what I'm saying here is that this is not something that should take you years you know so this really goes hand in hand with the first tip of your probably ready to apply to Google right now just take a few weeks to work on some cool software engineering projects and you'll be ready right don't think that oh you need to spend hours and hours or sorry days and days weeks and weeks on these software engineering projects that is not the case tip number three this one has to do with how to actually apply to Google I get a lot of people who come to me and who tell me Clements I applied online I submitted my resume online I had a good resume I had good software engineering projects I know how to code well enough to pass the coding interviews but I never got contacted I must not be good enough to get a job at Google no no no no no no when you are applying online via the Google online application system you are competing against millions literally millions of other resumes that is not a good way or the best way to apply for a job at Google yes it is doable there are people I know a few people who got their jobs by literally just throwing their resume in the applicant pool online and that just worked for them but they likely got really really lucky or had stellar resumes that sort of hit all the keywords and somehow managed to get through what I would recommend is to contact a Google recruiter a human being directly this will seriously increase your chances of actually getting an interview by like 400% okay this is not a real statistic I don't have any statistical knowledge on this but it will really increase your chances and so here you might be asking yourself but Clements I don't know a Google recruiter what do I do and the answer is simple there's this little website called the LinkedIn you may have heard of it if you don't have an account on LinkedIn I would highly recommend that you create one it's really useful for this exact purpose go on LinkedIn and on LinkedIn there's a little search bar at the top type in the search bar Google recruiter what do you think pops up Google recruiters you will literally have pages and pages and pages of google recruiters they're all smiling they all look super friendly they're all google recruiters and what you're going to want to do is to spend a bit of time and by the way this is not going to be easy I didn't title this video six easy tips to get into Google I titled it six tips to get into Google maybe I could have put hard tips because they're not easy you're gonna have to spend some time find glory Cooter's who happen to have their contact information on their LinkedIn a few of them do a few of them have their email address on their profile or a few of them will invite you to message them on LinkedIn even if they don't invite you to message event on LinkedIn just go ahead and message them and tell them that you're interested in applying to Google and here once again I made a video covering exactly how I landed my interviews at Google which was by contacting two recruiters on LinkedIn and sending them an email go check it out I'll put the link in the description and comments below it'll show you exactly what I did and what you can do too but so do that now I would definitely say don't go and bombard you know fifteen different recruiters with messages probably try to find maybe three or four recruiters who are maybe you know located in the office that you want to apply to although they don't necessarily need to be in the same office that you want to apply to but you know that could help and see if you can find ones with their email or if you can't then just pick a few recruiters or randomly send them a message on LinkedIn if you don't have their email and wait to see if they reply give them a few days three to four days if they don't answer maybe follow up and if they don't answer ask for that move on to another recruiter you probably don't want to have you know five different recruiters answering you at the same time which is why I would recommend sort of staggering them out in buckets of maybe like two three or four but that will more than likely lead to a positive result the recruiters are gonna contact you back and you're gonna be able to initiate the interview process bonus tip number three point five I bet you didn't expect there to be a bonus tip number three point five but you're super happy but there is one so you're gonna smash the like button right now once you message all these recruiters you might have one who responds to you and tells you hey whatever your name is I'm actually not the recruiter who handles people of your level or of the role that you're interested in but you can apply online and if that doesn't work out I can put you in touch with my colleague who does handle applications for people like you if you get a message like that and you can definitely get one because I got exactly that message and I covered it in the video that I mentioned read before do not please do not I repeat do not tell them okay I'm gonna go ahead and apply online no do not do that okay that's just gonna bring you back into the whole competing with a billion resumes no tell them hey whatever your name is I'm really interested in this position I'm really excited about it and I'd love to get the interview process started as soon as possible could you put me in touch with your colleague and they're probably gonna say yes and you're gonna have skipped that whole nonsense of applying online which would likely not weed anywhere tip number four this is perhaps the most important tip of all although I'm probably gonna say the same thing about the next tip but this is a very important tip and it's this once you've landed the interviews you have your interview scheduled you have to realize that the only thing that matters from here on out for you to land that job at Google at whatever big tech company you're applying to is your performance on the coding interviews I'm gonna repeat this the only thing that matters at that point for you to land that job is your performance on the coding interviews it doesn't matter what you have on your resume it doesn't matter whether or not you went to college or if you got a few C's and college or who referred you if you got referred no the only thing that matters at that point is your performance on the coding interviews now this should make you feel two things first of all it should make you feel bit empowered because you have the power you have the power to control your own destiny in some sense on the other hand this should also make you feel bit scared because that's a big burden right basically it's your performance on those interviews and those very sort in the grand scheme of things interviews is gonna be what dick takes or what determines rather whether or not you get the job this is why it's very important that you prepare for the coding interviews a lot and very well now of course if you're not new to this channel you probably know what I'm about to do I know that to shamelessly recommend that you check out algo expert my company algo expert dot IO we've helped thousands upon thousands literally of software engineers land their dream jobs at companies like Google we've been getting an insane amount of positive feedback lately I definitely recommend that you check it out use the promo code Clem see LEM for a discount on the platform and prepare for those coding interviews that's step number four tip number five perhaps the most important tip of all although I think I said the same thing about the previous tip but nonetheless a very important tip and that is communication in the interviews it is so so so important that you communicate very well this is really one of the things that can make or break you in the coding interviews I talked about this at length in one of our interview tips videos on algo expert and to be honest I'll probably make a video about this on YouTube soon but really it's so important that you communicate well there's so many people so many candidates who do very well in their sort of algorithms and in their coding or at least decently well but then who sort of mess up when it comes to communication and it's really nothing too crazy it's just that they don't voice their thought process they don't talk out loud when they're doing their coding interviews it's so important and it could really make or break you and those coding interviews you don't want to fail those coding interviews because you could have communicated better or more tip number six the final tip has to do with what to do if you get rejected by Google maybe you've gone through the first five tips you'll and that the interviews you prepared for the interviews and you still somehow didn't get an offer that doesn't mean that you weren't ready or that you were a bad software engineer or that you'll never be able to get into Google it's possible that you didn't prepare enough but it's also possible that you did and that you just got unlucky or you just had a bad day a bad couple of interviews for whatever reason these interviews ultimately even if you are very well prepared are sort of hit or miss and so the point here tip number six is that even if you get rejected from Google if you really do want to eventually work there you should reapply in the future well I don't have any personal experience with this I know actually at least a handful of people at Google of employees at Google software engineers there who got into the company not on the first try they got into it after their second or even the third try at the interviews so if you got rejected or if you get rejected and you really want to work at Google definitely reapply in six or twelve months and even if you get rejected a second time reapply a third time because you might just get in then those are all the tips I've got for you I really hope that you found them helpful if you did let me know in the comments below and as I've said in a few of my other videos these videos take a surprising amount of time and effort to make right now it's 302 a.m. and I still have to go edit this video and then I have to wake up at 7 a.m. my life is awesome I love it and so all that I ask of you is if you really did enjoy the video to press that like button it really helps with the YouTube algorithm and of course to subscribe if you haven't already to turn on the notification Bell and the whole nine yards with that I'll see you in the next video

Channel: Clément Mihailescu

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Length: 14min 42sec (882 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 09 2019