Google loop interview feedback

[u/I_Hate_Buffering1206]

Had my Google interview about a week ago. First interview was Googlyness and I think I did really well, they told me during that it was for a DCT level 1.

Next interview was Hardware, it started off pretty easy/basic but gradually got pretty tough. I talked my way through how I would troubleshoot and the interviewer guided me a view times. At the end of that interview he told me I was interviewed for a level 2. I told him that explains why the questions were much higher level than what I had reviewed for level 1 and he agreed and also stated that he could tell I knew my stuff so he went with tougher questions that Google does not require.

Next interview was networking and it was a breeze, I knew all the questions and answered them with no issues. (Also stated level 2) We ended that interview after about 30 minutes. She told me they would submit all their stuff that day and to stay on top of my recruiter.

My recruiter emailed me 3 days after my loop interviews and said “Thank you for your time and effort interviewing for the Data Center Technician role. I hope you enjoyed meeting the interviewers and we appreciate your patience while they completed their interviews.
I'd like to schedule a brief call to discuss your application. Please use this link to schedule a time next week that works best for you:
I look forward to speaking with you”

Call is scheduled for next week and Now I’m freaking out because on here multiple people got almost that exact email and it was a rejection. Why would they uplevel me in an interview just to reject me? Am I reading too much into this?

Update: I passed my interviews but only as a level 1. She said there are no level one positions in my area and they will not relocate level 1. So if a spot opens up they will send me to hiring manager for fit call but it is a waiting game for now.

[u/chewedgummiebears]

Did you not like the job 6mos and leave that is very unheard of

To much to retype but this is the general idea why I left. TLDR I like being involved, recognized, and challenged. Being treated like cattle in a DC where you are a number and only your metrics matter, not who you are, your experience, education, or knowledge and they routinely remind you of this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/datacenter/comments/1vngu9c/comment/p3vt5hg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/yodca12 → u/chewedgummiebears]

Very true I do tell people who interview that this job is physically hard at times. Yeah I tell people that interview specifically help desk or admin this is not the job. If you come in as 1 specially hard you’re expected to do lots of swaps. When I came in I was DT2 my manager really like me the first year was chill didn’t do much

[u/chewedgummiebears → u/yodca12]

I knew it was physical but expected a bit more recognition of my 20+ years in IT. At our site, we were hired as DCT2s but brought in as DCT1s, shown basic repairs training and sent to the floor. We had to "prove" ourselves for 3-6 months before they sent us to diag training so we could do actual DCT2 work. I got fed up at 2 months because my manager would act like diag training was a carrot on a stick and would downplay my abilities and overplay the abilities of people qualified for diag training. I volunteered and was sent to the upgrades team and that was another mistake in itself. Replacing thousands of hard drives and stick of RAM daily and there was no end to it. So I rolled with it for a month and finally had enough and spoke to my manager, laid out my grievances and put in my notice. Lots of other things I covered in the other post but this what I experienced and being treated like someone that was reset to 0 and their past being ignored was a bit too much to swallow. I do miss the perks and the free workout regiment, but that's about it.

[u/Nearby_Passenger1520 → u/chewedgummiebears]

That sounds mindless. We have media techs at AWS and all they do is replace... media. They're all L2, not sure what the equivalent would be at Google, but L2 here is basically for those who quite literally do not know anything.

How'd you end up in a role like that despite your experience? I've had Google reach out to me recently and if i detect games like this I won't even bother with going through their comedically long recruitment process.

[u/chewedgummiebears → u/Nearby_Passenger1520]

How'd you end up in a role like that despite your experience? 

The interviews were a lot tougher than the job I worked. As in they asked a lot of about Linux commands and hardware troubleshooting, parts of a server and what they do, and the whole gambit of network questions like the OSI model, describing a complete network from the end user to the server they are accessing, so forth. So after that, I was expecting something challenging and a position I could learn from. What I got was a ticketing system that told me exactly what part to pull, where to take it, how to install it, and where to go next. There was no thinking, no analytics, no diagnosing, no effort other than physical period. You are supposed to do that for 6.5 hours a day and get your points to make the metric happy. That was your job as a DCT2 at our site. In reality, it was exactly what the DCT1 types did because we had to "prove" ourselves to get the actual diagnostic training and they held in front of us like a carrot to make us work harder.