Title: Looking for advice from Google Customer Engineers / recent candidates – London AI Native Junior Talent Programme
Hi everyone,
I recently applied for Google's Customer Engineer, AI Native – Junior Talent Programme in London a few months ago, and I was contacted by a recruiter this week to move forward in the process.
The recruiter explained that the process will involve 3 interviews across September, with the first interview likely in the first week of September. I've also been invited to a group preparation session on 24 August, and I have a recruiter call coming up on 21 August.
I'm at an early stage in my career and I'm really interested in understanding both what the Customer Engineer role is actually like day-to-day and how I should prepare for the interview process.
I'd especially love to hear from anyone who:
- currently works as a Google Cloud Customer Engineer;
- previously worked as a Customer Engineer at Google;
- has recently interviewed for a Google Cloud CE role; or
- has gone through an early-career / Junior Talent programme.
I'm particularly interested in understanding:
- what the different interview stages tend to assess;
- how technical the interviews are;
- how much emphasis is placed on architecture, AI/LLMs, cloud, APIs, coding, etc.;
- whether there are presentations or customer/technical scenarios;
- what the day-to-day CE role is actually like;
- and what you wish you had known before interviewing.
I'm not looking for confidential interview questions or anything that shouldn't be shared — I'd just really appreciate advice from people who've experienced the role or process themselves.
If anyone would be willing to share their experience here or have a quick chat, I'd be extremely grateful!
Thank you!