‘He had stopped caring about the results’ | Top Vip News

The last 12 months have seen large-scale layoffs at software giants Google, which have been forced to reduce their workforce for one or more reasons. Despite the layoffs, however, a job at Google remains one of the most sought-after opportunities for techies in India and around the world.

However, landing a job at software giants is not as easy as it seems and a tech expert recently shared how he landed a job at Google after clearing eight rounds of interviews and how not searching for the job at Google helped him, after two rejections in 2016 and 2018.

Sahil Gaba was working at Amazon when a Google recruiter contacted him for an interview in 2021. The technician found it difficult to get a new position elsewhere and decided to try again after facing rejections from several companies.

“For a long time at that point, I had already faced hundreds of rejections. I had stopped worrying about the results of the interviews because I had taken and failed many of them,” Gaba said. Business Insider.

The techie said a key factor that helped him land the Google job on his third try was that he wasn’t desperate to leave his current role at Amazon.

“I enjoyed working with my coworkers at Amazon. I also had no problem falling behind,” he said.

He also felt that having enough experience with coding also contributed to him getting the job at Google. “Though I was new, I was under more pressure while writing the code. Now writing the code is not the challenge; as long as I could find the solution, the writing part was easy,” he said.

Gaba decided to adopt a practice commonly followed in the IT industry (granting interviews to competitors) during the third round and attended interviews at companies like Meta and Uber.

He also said he urged candidates to look for jobs without using a reference, as he felt one was submitting their applications to a recruiter and not a job, when applying for positions.

“Essentially you’re not applying for a job, you’re applying for a recruiter,” he said.