Googlyness - How to pass the Googlyness interview

Google looks for “Googlyness” while choosing its employees. A surprising percentage of over 26,000 employees worldwide have it.

Google is the world’s largest search engine and has thousands of branches in different world countries. Every year at least 20 million people apply for jobs here. Working in Google’s office is like a dream come true for everyone. It is not easy to pass their interview and get a job here. Google’s interview is the most difficult in the world.

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Questions asked in Google interviews are based on four abilities:

• Ability to include information in the general cognitive ability of the candidate.
• Emergency leadership in the candidate. It means that you should have an emergency ability or whenever there is a problem, you should take part in solving it.
• The third culture fit in Google is the Googlyness. The candidate can put himself in the culture.
• The fourth is experts - the candidate should be an expert in the job for which he is being hired.

To get a job at Google, these four things are very important.

You should be focused and confident during the interview because the interviewer will try his best to get you confused.

The candidates have a lot of confusion about Googleyness and how it shows up during the Google interview. In this article, I’ll focus exactly on this problem, about Googlyness.

We will cover:

• what you need to know about Googlyness
• how to show Googlyness and pass the Googlyness interview.
• Googlynes based interview questions.

So, let’s first clarify what Googlyness is.

What is Googlyness?

Googlyness starts with the motto: “Do the right thing”.

We can define Googlyness as characteristics that separate the smart and best - it is equivalent to asking what makes you different and also matters?

Googlynees is about appreciating diversity, accommodating other working styles, being constructive, caring and helping others, being proactive with feedback, appreciating and finding joy in the unknown, being a reliable team-member, having challenging conversations, and pushing yourself when it is uncomfortable, thanking those who help you out, and overall being a nice person.

Below are some concepts you will want to consider when thinking about Googlyness:

Googlyness combines several intangible qualities, like zeal, Drive, entrepreneurship, imagination, dedication, grit, and an intrinsic conviction that technology will make the world a better place.

If you want to get a job at Google, you will be tested on Googliness in the interview process, and you should show it throughout all your interactions.

What would be the best way to show Googlyness?

A good way to show Googlyness is by writing about your volunteering experience. About something extra that you were not expected to do, but you did. You can also write about any social work or projects that you did to help others. Good recommendations by others who overviewed your volunteering work are a great way to prove your point. Anything that you do selflessly can be counted, like blood donation, volunteering during pride parade, donating old books, helping others, etc.

Show some creative and challenging work that you did, and how you pushed yourself and learned something - this is another way to show Googlyness. You can show Googlyness by showing something you built to make human life easier, something that is there because you built it, and that no one else thought out.

How to prepare for Googlyness based interview questions

I’ll give you four sample questions and how you should respond to them.

1. How do you work individually and on a team?

Focus on what you did, but always recognize and give praise to those that supported you/were critical to your success.

Talk about what you learned by working with others, and how they helped you grow and develop.

1. How do you help others? How do you talk about, how do you listen?

Show empathy, have compassion, and talk about what you have learned by helping others.

1. How do you navigate ambiguity?

How to overcome some of the ambiguity in the interviews is to make it conversational and ask clarifying questions. Build-in pauses and space to interact with the interviewer, and check-in with them often during your solution.

1. How do you push yourself to grow outside of your comfort zone?

Set great examples of when you have undertaken projects outside of your comfort zone, mentoring and leading others, having challenging conversations. Pushing yourself when it is uncomfortable could also be related to growth outside your role.

I recommend you to watch the movie “The Internship” with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.

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