2. What you will learn
Vocabulary
Interviewing at
Google
Grammar Pronunciation
1 3 4
Soft Skills
Prepositions of time
and place
Common
mistakes
Common Phrases for
CV
5
Speaking &
Writing
Describe your work
experience in
English
2
3. WARMUP What do you think interviews at Google
are like?
Would you like a chance to work for one
of the Big Tech companies? (Facebook,
Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix etc.)
4. Vocabulary: Developer Interview at Google
Here’s an actual story of a software developer who got an interview at Google
There are two phases you have to go through when you get a chance to interview at Google: the
initial technical phone screen interview followed by a full day of about 4 to 5 interviews with
developers. These days, they do the “face-to-face” interviews via Google Hangouts.
The funny thing is, I didn’t even apply for the position. A recruiter at Google sent me an email out
of the blue. We scheduled a meeting for the following week and she never showed up. She said
something about her laptop dying and not having the charger…
Anyways, we were able to get back in touch and rescheduled for a later time. I was going to
interview for a mid-level position at Google Ads.
The day of the interview comes, I get on a call with the interviewer and he sends me a problem
and a Google Doc to write my solution in. If you don’t know, you will have to write your code in a
Google Doc when you interview at Google so that you can’t access any features that IDE provides
such as error highlighting or code completion. The problem wasn’t too bad. It turned out to be a
lot easier than what it seemed at first and I was able to find an optimal solution. Overall, it went
very well.
5. Vocabulary: Developer Interview at Google
I heard from the recruiter a couple of days later and she invited me to the final round. But there
was one small issue - due to the pandemic, Google announced a bunch of hiring freezes and the
position I originally applied for became unavailable. They offered me to interview for a Google
Cloud position instead and I accepted because it was still an amazing opportunity.
During the behavioral interview, they asked me pretty standard questions like: “Name a time you
had a conflict with a coworker” or “Name a time you saw a coworker struggling. What did you do
to help them?”
One thing I learned about Google interviews is that they love asking follow up questions and see
that the candidate can explain the logic behind their solution in a clear and understandable way.
They also appreciate when a candidate explains how they can scale the solution, for example, if
the input increases from 3 objects to 1 million. They also asked me some questions about binary
trees. Overall, I had 5 interviews in 1 day and I felt like I did pretty well and was able to meet most
of their requirements.However, a few weeks later I found out that I wasn’t accepted for the
position. I never got the exact reason why I was rejected. I wasn’t too disappointed though
because I already had a stable career and wasn’t desperate for a job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvK-Li6tAEo&t=3s&pbjreload=101&ab_channel=KeepOnCoding
6. Grammar. Prepositions of Time and Place
At - specific time (hours, minutes, seconds)
At 10 am, at this moment, at this time
On - days
On Monday, on the New Year’s day
In - bigger time periods (years, months)
In the 2000s, in April
Time
*We don’t need any prepositions with “next”, “last”
Next weekend, last Monday
7. Complete these sentences
1. It was Mandy’s birthday ____ Monday
2. I’ll see you ___ 2 pm
3. I went to Hawaii ___ spring
4. I applied for that job ____ 2017
5. I’m not looking for a career change ____ the moment
6. Are you going to go there ____ next Friday?
Practice
8. Grammar. Prepositions of Time and Place
At - specific locations, social events (at the
meeting, at the store, at work)
On - public transport
On the bus, on the plane
In - Countries, cities
In Spain, In Paris
To - directions
Go to work, fly to LA
*We don’t need “to” with directions such as “go left / right / straight / back” or “turn left / right” etc.
Place
9. Complete these sentences
1. - Where’s Brian? - He went ___ the store
2. Get ____ the plane and come ____ our office
3. I met him ____ a tech meetup
4. We discussed it ___ the last meeting
5. I will be ___ California this weekend
6. Turn ____ left, then keep walking straight until you see a
big glass building to your right.
Practice
11. Pronunciation tip
Letter combinations “au”, “ch”
Au = o:
Automate, autopilot, launch, August, pause, sauce, Paul
Ch = k (in some words)
Technology, tech, chemistry, architect, technique, character, anchor
12. Soft Skills: Describing your work experience on a resume
Key vocabulary:
Tailor - Customize something to fit someone’s specific needs
Sustainable - something that can be maintained long into the future
Crafted - created
Scalable - something that can be easily expanded and developed
Enabled - made possible
13. Soft skills
Describing experience
When you describe your work experience, you
need to keep in mind a few key things:
★ Use strong verbs (verbs that describe
actions you took, not duties you had). For
example, instead of saying “worked with”
you can say “leveraged”, “collaborated”,
“improved”, “consulted” etc.
★ Quantify your achievements as much as
possible (use relevant data points). For
example: Managed over 10 key accounts in
e-commerce
★ Describe what impact your actions had. For
example: Partnered with C-level
stakeholders to develop long-term online
and offline marketing strategies
*List of action verbs :
https:/
/www.themuse.com/advice/185-powerful-verbs-that-will-make-your-resume
-awesome
14. Practice
Use 5-7 action verbs from the
list to describe some of the thing
you do/did at your job
Resolved Managed
Implemented Designed
Improved Optimized
Enabled Customized
Boosted Generated
Revamped Trained
15. HW
Write your own work experience
description for each relevant job
you had using the example from
the soft skills section and the
action verbs from the list.
