Great engineering culture, interesting problems to solve.
Leadership pivots direction multiple times a year. The pace is very slow and there's no real focus on shipping.
Choose a direction and stick to it, and offer an opinion.
A typical engineering manager interview process: The first step is a recruiter screening call. The second step is a technical screening, an easy coding assignment. Then you have two stages for system design and two stages for management topics. A
Requested a referral from a friend working at Google in a Senior Staff role. Heard from a recruiter about a month later (in June). Prelim round was in July. Virtual Onsite in August. Now going through team matching in September. Onsite consisted of
2 System Design Interviews, which serve as a gate to the rest: Code review, People Management, and Technical Leadership. The level is decided based on the System Designs without even considering the leadership experience.
A typical engineering manager interview process: The first step is a recruiter screening call. The second step is a technical screening, an easy coding assignment. Then you have two stages for system design and two stages for management topics. A
Requested a referral from a friend working at Google in a Senior Staff role. Heard from a recruiter about a month later (in June). Prelim round was in July. Virtual Onsite in August. Now going through team matching in September. Onsite consisted of
2 System Design Interviews, which serve as a gate to the rest: Code review, People Management, and Technical Leadership. The level is decided based on the System Designs without even considering the leadership experience.