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How competitive are non-technical jobs at Google?

• We hear a lot about the engineering jobs and how competitive they are, but what about non-engineering entry-level positions? How are the interview procedures and various requirements different?

• Answer:

  The interview process is pretty similar (screen, phone interviews, then an on-site interview) although the  content will obviously be a lot different. In terms of the entry bar, you will see a similar DNA to recruits on the technical side: top tier schooling, entrepreneurial spirit, and strong academic and work accomplishments. But for the real question, I'd assume getting a non-technical job will be at least as competitive as engineering, but I'd argue it's probably a lot more. Why? If you are a strong software engineer, you have the amazing luxury of having tech firms compete for you due to a shortage of engineering talent in the US. There simply aren't enough high caliber software engineers in the market so there is a huge ongoing war among scrappy startups and large tech firms for the same pool of talent. This isn't really the case on the non-technical side - our education system pumps out significantly more intelligent and capable non-technical workers. To compound it further, Google has become the defacto cool place for everyone to want to work at. Applications have skyrocketed resulting in a declining signal to noise ratio in the applicant pool that makes the filtering process difficult (like any other system facing low SNR). Google is one of the few tech firms that have made it to the inner circle of cool. For some reason,  wildly viral startups with strong traction such as Square, Dropbox, Twitter, Airbnb, etc. fail to make the cut to lists like these: http://money.cnn.com/news/economy/mba100/2012/full_list/. I chalk it up to risk aversion, but whatever the reason, these firms tend to be overlooked by business guys (until they IPO) even though they are top destinations for engineers. Lastly, our economy is still in a recession and a lot of the traditional areas where top business talent went (finance, law, corporations) are not hiring. So in summary to a long winded answer, I'd assume non-technical positions to be highly competitive due to: Supply & demand factors - There is a CS shortage. There probably isn't an MBA shortage. The Google brand - When there's a movie about Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn trying to get internships at your company (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234155/), you know you don't have to worry about recruiting . The economy - Lehman doesn't take our best and brightest anymore.