MKs, food, gyms. Amazing infra. Amazing codebase. Some amazing engineers and researchers.
Very, very bureaucratic. Bad behavior may not be reprimanded.
HR violated my privacy by sharing detailed financial information with The Work Number without my being informed or having consented. They never tried to fix the issue, even after several requests.
High turnover. Colleagues I thought were the best all left, except one.
The decline, which had started prior to my joining, is now becoming quite obvious. Might it be time to wake up and go back to what Google once was?
Takes a lot of time. The overall process is lengthy and somehow difficult to schedule when you have a current job. Manage your time and schedule. Discuss with HR when you have a conflict with other schedules.
The interview included scripted questions, general engineering questions, work history, and a few more generic "problem solving" questions. For example, "If you were shrunk down to the size of a dime and put in a blender, how would you escape?"
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
Takes a lot of time. The overall process is lengthy and somehow difficult to schedule when you have a current job. Manage your time and schedule. Discuss with HR when you have a conflict with other schedules.
The interview included scripted questions, general engineering questions, work history, and a few more generic "problem solving" questions. For example, "If you were shrunk down to the size of a dime and put in a blender, how would you escape?"
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