I interviewed for google once; their recruiter found me through an open source project in which google has a stake.
Anyways, I was tired when I did my phone interview, having just returned home from work. I bombed a couple of those interview puzzles. I felt pretty stupid because the answers are really obvious to me in hindsight. No biggie.
So this week they interviewed a junior programmer I mentored in the past. It looks like they might hire him! :-) good one. If they asked him he'd easily send them my way (guess who he comes to whenever he has questions?) Oh well.
If their recruiter contacts me again I might still do another interview. Their "write some code in a google document" interview style was novel, but possibly sub-optimal. YMMV
Yeah I've done the code-in-a-google-doc thing as well. Wasn't a fan. I've also done the interview-right-after-work thing. Not a fan. I'm happy where I work too, but it doesn't hurt to always know what the market is like (as you're obviously aware). That being said I've found the "job market research" process tedious and tiring. Months-long processes only to end in frustration, lies about project scope/culture/etc., time-intensive programming exercises, and so on.
Not sure how else you'd handle it though, really. Busy people are busy.
If they come crawling after you again, tell them you'd need double the salary you might have accepted last time. If they accept, you win. If they decline, you still have the pleasure of making that stand.
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I'm happy where I work.
I interviewed for google once; their recruiter found me through an open source project in which google has a stake.
Anyways, I was tired when I did my phone interview, having just returned home from work. I bombed a couple of those interview puzzles. I felt pretty stupid because the answers are really obvious to me in hindsight. No biggie.
So this week they interviewed a junior programmer I mentored in the past. It looks like they might hire him! :-) good one. If they asked him he'd easily send them my way (guess who he comes to whenever he has questions?) Oh well.
If their recruiter contacts me again I might still do another interview. Their "write some code in a google document" interview style was novel, but possibly sub-optimal. YMMV
Yeah I've done the code-in-a-google-doc thing as well. Wasn't a fan. I've also done the interview-right-after-work thing. Not a fan. I'm happy where I work too, but it doesn't hurt to always know what the market is like (as you're obviously aware). That being said I've found the "job market research" process tedious and tiring. Months-long processes only to end in frustration, lies about project scope/culture/etc., time-intensive programming exercises, and so on.
Not sure how else you'd handle it though, really. Busy people are busy.
If they come crawling after you again, tell them you'd need double the salary you might have accepted last time. If they accept, you win. If they decline, you still have the pleasure of making that stand.