Decent work-life balance, high prestige, good benefits, good office events, enormous scale, occasional opportunity to influence impact. People are generally nice and non-toxic.
High pressure to do more with less, too much red tape, non-standard tooling, good managers are hard to find. You have to build your own support network. Unfortunately, the culture is that yesterday was better than today.
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.