If you want to find out why I left Accenture and how I went about it, definitely check out the other video here! ua-cam.com/video/CvywPiUSFUA/v-deo.html
I love your story. I'm about to start an internship at one of the big 4, and was concerned that if I wasn't a software engineer my opportunities would be limited. Your story inspires me, and it's thrilling to see that exit opportunities for tech consultants could be truly amazing. Wish you the best of luck.
A lottttt of companies love consultants because of our ability to adapt and learn quickly! Add tech to it and it’ll always be a super hot field to be in! The opportunities are endless! Thank you!
@@waleedashraf3002 Of course! Anyone from any career can always make a career change, it really is how much work will it be to bridge that gap between where you are now to the destination. A lot of roles could be very easy to transition to from technology consulting and a lot of roles could also be difficult to transition as well but not impossible. It really is upskilling and learning and then also how well you sell your skillset and self to the roles.
Thank you! It’s honestly the question out of all my interviews I prepared the most for HAHAHA. It’s tough! I came up with that answer because everyone suggests not to put a number out in the beginning.
Thanks for your video Christine! That's very helpful! I also received the interview invitation from Google China recruiter last week and I am currently preparing for this opportunity to join my dream company. I'm not very sure that whether this position has the same JD across different regions, but I noticed that in the JD's minimum requirement it says ’Experience with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Experience with SQL, XML, HTTP protocols, and an Object Oriented language.‘ Just curious that did you encounter any coding-related questions in the interview process? To what extent you will be coding in your current job, and are there many business trips to meet up with clients to work as a SA in Google? Thanks for your answer!
Solutions architect is a role that can mean a lot of things everywhere within and outside of Google and I find my role to be different than the typical. For that reason, I don’t have to code, but SQL is definitely one we use in our role but we don’t have to since we have ready made SQL to pull the data that is most typically pulled. As for business trips, it depends on the clients’ location and how critical it is for you to be there in person, so I can’t say for sure if there will be many or few. There have been client business trips pre-Covid, but my team hasn’t done any since post-Covid.
Hi Christine. Thank you for this video. I happen to have a technical interview tomorrow for a software engineering position, is it possible to brainstorm some questions that are asked during the technical interview?
Unfortunately I’m not sure how much I can help you there because it’s going to be very specific to the role. Leet Code is your best bet to prepare as most tech companies pull from there! Good luck!
This is definitely informative, i was curious what the core differences between the solutions manager, architect, and customer engineer at google. Do you have insight on that?
I do, but even within Google it greatly differs within the organization. At least in my organization within Google, there isn’t a solutions manager, but maybe the equivalent is managers of solutions architects that are more focused on internal and external initiatives, but the architect works with the clients on solutions (depending on their focus, the day to day can be vastly different) and customer engineer helps with the more custom solutions or tools to help the client.
@@ChristineWong gotcha did you have to do system design interview in your org? Im in consulting side of things focused on more technical items and trying to determine what would be best fit of 3
Unfortunately not, but I’ve definitely worked with many who have! Try to really do really well in your job so you’re top of mind when it comes to hiring! This could be a tough time for hiring all around but not impossible. Good luck and I’m rooting for you!
@@ChristineWong fair enough! And true. Thank you so very much. Its funny coz i have some googlers who are also rovers 😻 . Apparently NYC site is purrfect for that 😸.
With all due respect, may I ask if there is some differences of approved percentages from hiring committee between tech and non tech position? Seems non tech is a bit easier to get approved. I am now going to HC for account manager
I’m not sure, I only have the perspective of a candidate. I know that the hiring committee (in my case is gTech shopping ads) will be very specific to the team you are going to work in will differ, so it’s really based off of that group. Google (according to Blind and Fishbowl) does heavily regulate the baseline that every person approves, rejects, and their feedback so it’s supposed to be a very detached and isolated process to remove bias.
Regarding the tech vs. non-tech, tech looks to see how you answer the technical questions but non-technical focuses a little bit more on your hypotheticals and problem solving through RRK and GCA in my opinion. If you do well in that, you’ll do well. Also based off of someone I spoke to, the engineering teams go by if you’re qualified or not then enter into team match. To my knowledge, non-tech teams go for very specific vacancies so they have to decide who out of those who pass should get the offer, so depending on how you see it, that may or may not make it easier to get the offer.
@@ChristineWong thx for the kind replies Christine :) Yes you are quite right. As you said non tech usually go for vacancies and it already has a hiring manager. so only as for hiring committee, I assume non tech would be easier to get approved by 'hiring committee' than tech
Google hired one of my former coworkers. That surprised me since that person was incredibly lazy and kept getting laid off from every job. I guess that Google managers realized their mistake because they laid off that lazy person too.
Omg wow. Yeah I’m not sure to be honest with how Google determined who got laid off, so I can’t speak to that, but sometimes it’s hard to know if someone is lazy or not from job application, resume, and interviews or even references sometimes until they start their job.
If you want to find out why I left Accenture and how I went about it, definitely check out the other video here! ua-cam.com/video/CvywPiUSFUA/v-deo.html
Great Story & Very well explained !!!
@@chanakyamishra4795 thank you!
Omg congrats, I remember watching your videos religiously when I was interviewing for Accenture last year (and got in). Amazing to see!
Thank you! And I’m glad my content helped you get into Accenture!
I love your story. I'm about to start an internship at one of the big 4, and was concerned that if I wasn't a software engineer my opportunities would be limited. Your story inspires me, and it's thrilling to see that exit opportunities for tech consultants could be truly amazing. Wish you the best of luck.
A lottttt of companies love consultants because of our ability to adapt and learn quickly! Add tech to it and it’ll always be a super hot field to be in! The opportunities are endless! Thank you!
@@ChristineWong So is it possible to shift from tech consulting into other areas?
@@waleedashraf3002 Of course! Anyone from any career can always make a career change, it really is how much work will it be to bridge that gap between where you are now to the destination. A lot of roles could be very easy to transition to from technology consulting and a lot of roles could also be difficult to transition as well but not impossible. It really is upskilling and learning and then also how well you sell your skillset and self to the roles.
New follower. Thank you for the point on being prepared by using story telling…..And knowing what lense you want to show up as (in depth or broad).
Doing your research is important on doing just that! I’m glad you like the tip!
Amazing 🙌🏾 hoping to get into data analytics one day vids are really helpful
Good luck, and I hope you do too!
Your channel is really helpful! Congrats and good luck at google!
Thank you so much!
Loved this video a now a new subscriber !!
I’m glad! Thank you for subscribing!
I’ve never known how to answer the “what is your expected salary” question. I like your answer :)
Thank you! It’s honestly the question out of all my interviews I prepared the most for HAHAHA. It’s tough! I came up with that answer because everyone suggests not to put a number out in the beginning.
Thanks for your video Christine! That's very helpful! I also received the interview invitation from Google China recruiter last week and I am currently preparing for this opportunity to join my dream company. I'm not very sure that whether this position has the same JD across different regions, but I noticed that in the JD's minimum requirement it says ’Experience with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Experience with SQL, XML, HTTP protocols, and an Object Oriented language.‘ Just curious that did you encounter any coding-related questions in the interview process? To what extent you will be coding in your current job, and are there many business trips to meet up with clients to work as a SA in Google? Thanks for your answer!
Solutions architect is a role that can mean a lot of things everywhere within and outside of Google and I find my role to be different than the typical. For that reason, I don’t have to code, but SQL is definitely one we use in our role but we don’t have to since we have ready made SQL to pull the data that is most typically pulled. As for business trips, it depends on the clients’ location and how critical it is for you to be there in person, so I can’t say for sure if there will be many or few. There have been client business trips pre-Covid, but my team hasn’t done any since post-Covid.
Hi Christine. Thank you for this video. I happen to have a technical interview tomorrow for a software engineering position, is it possible to brainstorm some questions that are asked during the technical interview?
Unfortunately I’m not sure how much I can help you there because it’s going to be very specific to the role. Leet Code is your best bet to prepare as most tech companies pull from there! Good luck!
This is definitely informative, i was curious what the core differences between the solutions manager, architect, and customer engineer at google. Do you have insight on that?
I do, but even within Google it greatly differs within the organization. At least in my organization within Google, there isn’t a solutions manager, but maybe the equivalent is managers of solutions architects that are more focused on internal and external initiatives, but the architect works with the clients on solutions (depending on their focus, the day to day can be vastly different) and customer engineer helps with the more custom solutions or tools to help the client.
I’m actually doing a video soon on how is it like doing tech consulting in a consulting firm vs consulting at a tech company.
@@ChristineWong gotcha did you have to do system design interview in your org? Im in consulting side of things focused on more technical items and trying to determine what would be best fit of 3
I did not. My role was not so focused systems design! But I’m sure there is a solutions architect role that would be!
any suggestion or info about how to convert from TVC into FTE? i v been TVC for almost a year and my applications keep being rejected :(
Unfortunately not, but I’ve definitely worked with many who have! Try to really do really well in your job so you’re top of mind when it comes to hiring! This could be a tough time for hiring all around but not impossible. Good luck and I’m rooting for you!
@@ChristineWong fair enough! And true. Thank you so very much. Its funny coz i have some googlers who are also rovers 😻 . Apparently NYC site is purrfect for that 😸.
@@infinitymetta it is! Amazing for a very densely populated city 😹
Christine, your video was great. A recruiter reached out to me. I am curious to know, how is your role going?
Congratulations! I love my role!
@@ChristineWong awesome! I will follow-up with you in the near future. 😊
Looking forward to it!
Congrats! You worth it!
Thank you so much!
Hey, is Google already on Talent Service? I heard that all large companies are now looking for cool specialists there.
What do you mean by is Google on talent service? Can you elaborate?
With all due respect, may I ask if there is some differences of approved percentages from hiring committee between tech and non tech position? Seems non tech is a bit easier to get approved. I am now going to HC for account manager
I’m not sure, I only have the perspective of a candidate. I know that the hiring committee (in my case is gTech shopping ads) will be very specific to the team you are going to work in will differ, so it’s really based off of that group. Google (according to Blind and Fishbowl) does heavily regulate the baseline that every person approves, rejects, and their feedback so it’s supposed to be a very detached and isolated process to remove bias.
Regarding the tech vs. non-tech, tech looks to see how you answer the technical questions but non-technical focuses a little bit more on your hypotheticals and problem solving through RRK and GCA in my opinion. If you do well in that, you’ll do well. Also based off of someone I spoke to, the engineering teams go by if you’re qualified or not then enter into team match. To my knowledge, non-tech teams go for very specific vacancies so they have to decide who out of those who pass should get the offer, so depending on how you see it, that may or may not make it easier to get the offer.
@@ChristineWong thx for the kind replies Christine :) Yes you are quite right. As you said non tech usually go for vacancies and it already has a hiring manager. so only as for hiring committee, I assume non tech would be easier to get approved by 'hiring committee' than tech
@@chungm9990 good luck! I hope you get the offer, and let me know how it goes!
congratulations!!!
Thank you!
Was there a technical interview?
For my role, they did case interview instead. But I did hear from other colleagues sometimes they got quizzed on SQL.
Thank umom
Thank you!
Google hired one of my former coworkers. That surprised me since that person was incredibly lazy and kept getting laid off from every job. I guess that Google managers realized their mistake because they laid off that lazy person too.
Omg wow. Yeah I’m not sure to be honest with how Google determined who got laid off, so I can’t speak to that, but sometimes it’s hard to know if someone is lazy or not from job application, resume, and interviews or even references sometimes until they start their job.
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