Wide range of products to work on, good food, good benefits, good co-workers, and great offices that are mostly empty.
The CEO, Sundar Pichai, is far out of his depth, and his hand-picked cloud leadership is incompetent. Yet, executives are still being hired at an incredible rate.
These executives are unfortunately not skilled enough to set direction at the company, or they are unable to set a sane, user-focused direction (see Meet, Meet, and Meet Legacy).
To gain past Level 5, you have to find unfunded work outside of your org and hope that it gets you promoted instead of laid off.
Work events and team-building events, inside and outside of Google, have been shut down for almost 3 years now, with no sight of them coming back.
Over half of the people in the company have been hired during this time, meaning that the industry-leading company culture is long dead with no sign of return.
From a technical side, Google avoids new technology and holds onto outdated technology. This means to be competitive externally, you have to spend your free time learning all of the new technology that Google doesn't use.
Ultimately, I didn't get the position. Their interview process is well-documented, and I went through multiple rounds. A director I met in Hawaii, in a hot tub, encouraged me to apply, but it went nowhere.
I submitted a resume online to the Google/SketchUp Boulder office on Pearl Street. I had an initial phone screening discussing past work history and some development and programming questions that were somewhat perfunctory. I came in for an in-perso
The interviewer, over the phone, asked me to describe an algorithm to find the intersection of two arrays of integers. They also asked me to write pseudocode in a shared Google Docs session. I got the algorithm right the first time, though perhaps n
Ultimately, I didn't get the position. Their interview process is well-documented, and I went through multiple rounds. A director I met in Hawaii, in a hot tub, encouraged me to apply, but it went nowhere.
I submitted a resume online to the Google/SketchUp Boulder office on Pearl Street. I had an initial phone screening discussing past work history and some development and programming questions that were somewhat perfunctory. I came in for an in-perso
The interviewer, over the phone, asked me to describe an algorithm to find the intersection of two arrays of integers. They also asked me to write pseudocode in a shared Google Docs session. I got the algorithm right the first time, though perhaps n