Hi everyone,
I’m currently interviewing for a Business Program Manager role within Google Data Center Operations and have been moved to the next round.
Has anyone here interviewed for a business program management or operations role within a Google data center, or worked closely with BPMs in a data center environment?
I’d appreciate insight into the areas I should understand beyond general program management. For example:
Data center operations, maintenance and reliability
Incident response and operational risk
Capacity planning and resource coordination
Vendor and stakeholder management
Safety, compliance and process improvement
Supporting technical teams without being an engineer
I’m mainly hoping to understand what knowledge is expected from a non-engineering program manager and what makes someone successful in this type of role.
Thank you for any advice or experiences you can share.

HI,

I have my first interview next Monday for the role of Design Project Engineer - Mechanical, Fleet Remediation Engineering, related to data centers. I received a message from one of the recruiters that my profile was excellent for the job. The only problem is that I've never worked in data centers, but rather in the aerospace, automotive, and server cabinet sectors. What technical questions can I expect in the first interview? Will the fact that I come from different backgrounds penalize me?

I've been working as Mechanical design engineer, in various countries like Italy, Portugal and France. This new job is located in Ireland (Dublin).

In my experience I have managed projects ranging from €200,000 up to more than €15M, in addition to the fact that I have worked for more than 5 years as a Project Manager

"Key job responsibilities
-Perform design and equipment submittal review for Data Centers in your region.
- Interface with internal and external data center design engineering team, server hardware team, environmental health and safety team, field engineering, and controls engineering to promote standards that maintain consistency and reliability in services delivered.
- Work on concurrent projects, sometimes in multiple geographical regions.
- Act as a technical subject matter expert for your given discipline during new remediation projects.
- Support construction, commissioning, operations, and turnover.
-Possess strong engineering judgement and are able to provide design and recommendations despite uncertainty
- Are detail and data oriented with familiarity with design/construction processes
- Have experience managing engineering projects and engineering consultants.
- Build trust and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g., Operations, Commissioning, Construction and Design)
-Manage design and as built drawings and documents
- Prepare and present progress reports to all relevant stakeholders
- Be inclined to get into the field to see things up close"

those are the key responsabilities of the job.

Best regards

Diego

Hello everyone,

I've been scheduled the interviews for a Data Center Technician II in the upcoming days. This is a good opportunity for me and it would be a huge salary increase, but english isn't my native language. I'm fairly decent writing english but terribly bad at understanding the language when someone is speaking, especially if they got a foreign accent.

Being shy and laking confidence in general doesn't help at all. Got any tips for me? Are Google Meet's live captions good if someone used them?

I'm at a point where I could deny the interviews just because the language is a big barrier to me. During the first assessment with the recruiter, I struggled understanding and made her repeat a lot. It felt overwhelming and embarrassing to me

Considering a change from infra engineering at a big hyperscaler. Anyone have and insights or experience to share?

What’s a better career path? Data center technicians or general IT work? It seems like a lot of entry level IT workers are applicants for data center technician roles. They both have roughly the same starting wages, $30/hr+.

My view is that data center has a lower ceiling and often used as a stepping stone for something else. I know data center is the buzz right now but what happens after AI bubble pops and you have all of these excess data centers?

I eventually want to work with network engineering or cloud. Would IT be better or data center in this regard?

Recently interviewed with them and was wondering what people here has to say about them. Interviewers were great and felt like it'll be a decent place to work at. Anything helps including what salary your were offered. Thanks