Becoming a "Lifestyle"
Becoming a "Lifestyle"
- Treats employees (especially Engineers) very well.
- Great benefits, awesome offices, and perks.
- Really good teammates.
- Too many people treating Google like a lifestyle instead of a business, focused on the perks instead of building great products.
- Pay becoming less competitive in the market unless the stock continues going crazy.
- Over-leveled executives and under-leveled engineers coming into Google for the last several years.
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It was okay. The interviewer was kind but did not seem interested at all. The questions were not that hard, but the entire interview process was very strung out, and communication amongst the recruiter was not good.
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1 coding interview and 1 behavioral interview. Coding - DP (hard) Behavioral - Asked basic behavioral questions with follow-ups. Used the STAR method to answer them accordingly. The interviewer was very friendly, and it felt more like a conversatio
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One week after I was emailed by the recruiter, I had a short chat on the phone with her. After that, a few days later, I was scheduled for a technical phone interview. The phone interview was way under my expectations: - the interviewer seemed arrog
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesOctober 28, 2025It was okay. The interviewer was kind but did not seem interested at all. The questions were not that hard, but the entire interview process was very strung out, and communication amongst the recruiter was not good.
Software Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 20251 coding interview and 1 behavioral interview. Coding - DP (hard) Behavioral - Asked basic behavioral questions with follow-ups. Used the STAR method to answer them accordingly. The interviewer was very friendly, and it felt more like a conversatio
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2011One week after I was emailed by the recruiter, I had a short chat on the phone with her. After that, a few days later, I was scheduled for a technical phone interview. The phone interview was way under my expectations: - the interviewer seemed arrog
