Compensation, health insurance, and perks are good.
Your manager has the ability to make your life miserable. Even if they violate company policy, the company is more likely to back the manager over you.
Be very selective about your first team because it greatly impacts how long you'll stay at Google. With the new GRAD ratings, it's effectively impossible to change teams, as you only get one rating for an entire year, based on which team you were on the longest.
If you change teams, or even try to change teams, your manager can give you a poor rating for not completing goals that were scheduled for the end of the period. This can, in turn, lead to you losing your annual bonus or even the new team retracting their offer altogether.
If your manager is bad, you won't last at Google, but sadly, they will.
Yearly ratings are a bad idea. Allowing a previous manager to determine the rating of an employee that transfers to a new team is a really bad idea.
Interviewed with five senior-level engineers and a director-level manager. Most of them asked senior-level questions, i.e., design questions. One asked junior algorithms. Be careful about Google policy; if one interviewer says something bad about yo
I applied online. The process took 3 months. Five on-site rounds: coding, system design, and code review. The process feels too long in this time and age. The only positive is the chance to visit the campus. Food was good.
One screening phone interview with a recruiter. An on-site interview followed with six engineers at Googleplex. All the engineers looked very smart, but the interview questions were somewhat consistent (Big O notation and hash tables) and not practi
Interviewed with five senior-level engineers and a director-level manager. Most of them asked senior-level questions, i.e., design questions. One asked junior algorithms. Be careful about Google policy; if one interviewer says something bad about yo
I applied online. The process took 3 months. Five on-site rounds: coding, system design, and code review. The process feels too long in this time and age. The only positive is the chance to visit the campus. Food was good.
One screening phone interview with a recruiter. An on-site interview followed with six engineers at Googleplex. All the engineers looked very smart, but the interview questions were somewhat consistent (Big O notation and hash tables) and not practi