Above-Average Pay
Good People for the most part
High-quality Ad Products to sell (relative to competitors)
Solid 401k match and benefits
Global work community
Indirectly supports Alphabet's attempts to solve existential human challenges
Below average vacation days (inconsistent depending on country)
Wolf-in-sheep's clothing managerial styles and psychological tactics
Undeniable workaholic culture, despite internal rhetoric to the contrary
"If it ain't completely broke, don't fix it" mentality with internal and external products
Under-staffed (at least in sales), resulting in excessively high client ratios
Under-resourced, creating productivity and scoping dilemmas
Advancement can be impossible if you are on the wrong team, at the wrong level, with the wrong manager
Re-evaluate your workloads against the average rate of burnout.
Re-evaluate how much revenue or how many clients managed per person is "necessary," and then lower this target.
Don't perpetuate work cultures where workaholism is implicitly or explicitly championed as the 'normal' worker state. Even the workaholics are showing signs of burnout!
Encourage your product & policy leadership teams to proactively anticipate, respond to, and solve for problems before they snowball into much larger issues that create massive side-effects and productivity drains for other teams (especially client-facing teams).
Be more proactively transparent internally about ethical challenges facing Google, so we hear about them from leadership before we read about them in the media.
Continue taking employee feedback to heart and making significant changes based on that feedback. Don't stop at reminding employees that you are listening; show demonstrable improvements & beneficial actions after they have been achieved.
One screening call with a recruiter, just chatting about experience and what the process is like. One online values assessment that was pretty straightforward and, honestly, just a little annoying. Two LeetCode interviews. Standard Medium-Hard Leet
A straightforward process, exactly what the recruiter described. It involved several technical interviews and some personal interviews. When it wasn't clear if they could hire or reject me, they gave me an additional technical interview.
I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
One screening call with a recruiter, just chatting about experience and what the process is like. One online values assessment that was pretty straightforward and, honestly, just a little annoying. Two LeetCode interviews. Standard Medium-Hard Leet
A straightforward process, exactly what the recruiter described. It involved several technical interviews and some personal interviews. When it wasn't clear if they could hire or reject me, they gave me an additional technical interview.
I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u