How did you get a job at Google from India?

I currently work at Google and have been with Google since last 2 years. I studied from Aurora Degree college(affiliated to Osmania University)

Here is my journey

• 2009: Graduated with bachelors degree(sciences). I had a couple of opportunities Testing role Capgemini, BPO role at Wipro and Digital marketing role at MPG India. Even with 3 opportunities at hand, companies were shying away to give a joining letter due to recession(2008 financial crisis). Finally after some wait, I joined MPG India(Havas Digital) as it was the 1st company to provide me a joining letter and I wanted to explore digital marketing world. Glad I took this decision as this changed my life totally and landed me a job at Google
• 2010: With 1yr experience in digital marketing and understanding a bit of the ecosystem, I applied for a role in Adwords at Google and was rejected in 1st written test itself. I applied through google.co.in/jobs
• 2011: Joined an agency called Zeta interactive and was working in core Digital marketing tools such as Adwords, Kenshoo, Facebook etc…
• 2012: Applied for another role in Google for Search quality evaluation. I had multiple interviews(around 4 or 5) and final interview was with Business head of Google India operations. Rejected again(I think this was because I lied in a question asked to me and it was clearly evident)
• 2013: Joined Google as a Vendor (Vendors are not permanent employees of Google but are under payscale of other companies such as HCL, Accenture, Cognizant etc but they work on Google projects)
• 2015: Applied for Google again and cleared this time :) My role is Programmatic Account Strategist and I manage campaigns in Display marketing. (I am not an Engineer at Google)

What I learnt from Google Interview experience.

1. Never Lie in interviews
2. Never be over confident with very little knowledge(I was in this phase during 1st interview with Google and was rejected in 1st round itself)
3. Never give up as I cracked in 3rd interview attempt at Google

Hope this helps!

answered by Azad Shaik on Quora.com