philippe::niquille | regular niche market thoughts

If you want to apply, get yourself ready for a long term application process. I was trying to get a job at google a while ago (didn’t succeed), and it took almost half a year. Apparently, they’re checking thoroughly whom to take … A friend of mine works there, he applied for the same job

I’ve been through the application-process of Google Netherlands in February and March of last year. I made it to round six. Then I sort of had it with Google: they wanted to knwo a lot about me but were unwilling to tell me anything about the primary stuff I wanted to know. All very obscure. When I heard a vague story about the working-times I had it completelty: start around 10:00 / 10:30AM and work until late in the evening. Since it´s an American company I don’t expect working overtime being will be paid and stuff like that.
Read more in this blog-post if you are still interested:
http://bok.xs4all.nl/weblog/archive/2006/03/03/geeky-questions/

Now I’m glad I made the switch within my current company in becoming an Oracle DBA!