Great company, lower pay
Great company, lower pay
- Best co-workers ever; there are few mean people and few slackers.
- Free food, free laundry.
- Unvested stock on hire.
- Dress code very casual.
- Base compensation is lower than competitive companies in the same area.
- Stock takes years to vest, while San Francisco Bay Area rent continues to rise.
- Base compensation increases require a complicated and time-consuming promotion process that is not guaranteed and dependent on team success.
- Bay Area compensation is not adequate outside of SWE job positions.
- Cube space is open and can be noisy in some areas.
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First, an online assessment, then the HR call, then several rounds of technical interview (you need to solve data structure/algorithm problems), and finally a manager interview (mostly behavioral questions).
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I had two online interviews with their software engineer. They first asked me about my research at school, and then we started the coding question part. The difficulty of the problems is around medium to hard on LeetCode.
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I was invited to have an interview with two engineers for the Google Watch team. I had two rounds in one day, 30 minutes apart. Each round took 60 minutes to complete. They didn't tell me the result for two months, and no feedback was provided.
Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesNovember 24, 2025First, an online assessment, then the HR call, then several rounds of technical interview (you need to solve data structure/algorithm problems), and finally a manager interview (mostly behavioral questions).
Software Engineer (Internship)
Mountain View, California, United StatesOctober 26, 2025I had two online interviews with their software engineer. They first asked me about my research at school, and then we started the coding question part. The difficulty of the problems is around medium to hard on LeetCode.
Hardware Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesOctober 23, 2025I was invited to have an interview with two engineers for the Google Watch team. I had two rounds in one day, 30 minutes apart. Each round took 60 minutes to complete. They didn't tell me the result for two months, and no feedback was provided.
