Free food. Nice campus. Overall, good processes and structure.
Everything else. Too much pain to get anything done. Too slow in everything. Meta is much better for speed and actually getting things done.
Don't make your leads managers.
It’s very hard to find a team match after you clear all interviews. Interviews are easy; very classic management exercises. But the team match is hard. They’re not supposed to be interviews, but they are.
I got referred internally. The recruiter screen was light, mostly asking 'Why Google?' and walking through my current EM role (team size, day-to-day, projects). Then, a technical phone screen with algo questions in CoderPad. One was to design a graph
I applied twice. Each time, the posted offer was for a remote B2B position. Each time, it turned out later that it was a 100% on-site regular contract. A waste of time.
It’s very hard to find a team match after you clear all interviews. Interviews are easy; very classic management exercises. But the team match is hard. They’re not supposed to be interviews, but they are.
I got referred internally. The recruiter screen was light, mostly asking 'Why Google?' and walking through my current EM role (team size, day-to-day, projects). Then, a technical phone screen with algo questions in CoderPad. One was to design a graph
I applied twice. Each time, the posted offer was for a remote B2B position. Each time, it turned out later that it was a 100% on-site regular contract. A waste of time.