Lots of perks, great coworkers, good work-life balance for those who choose to take it.
Perf season is maddening. Public trust has eroded so far that we are now definitely the bad guys.
To build back public trust, make sweeping changes to internal politics and performance review season to truly put the user first.
Stop rewarding people for swooping in, getting a product launch, then leaving. That does not deserve a promotion! Promote the folks that stick around and make the products great.
Stop putting $ first. We can still make bucket loads of cash without demographic data on our users.
Provide an alternate search experience for privacy-minded folks (no cookies, no recorded logs, ads 100% keyword based). The goodwill will reward us plenty beyond the slight dip in revenue loss from lack of demographics.
For the love of god, stop with the "Join YouTube Premium." Aggressively marketing things like this makes users hate us, and we end up with angry users ready to jump at the next alternative.
The process was a bit slow, but overall, both the recruiter and interviewers were professional and nice. The questions were also very practical. There were five rounds of interviews over two days, covering programming, algorithms, and system design.
A pretty standard interview process. Based on employee recommendations, Google waived the phone interview. There were five 1:1 interviews: coding, algorithms, and system design. No puzzles or trick questions were asked. I spoke with two teams and
The recruiter was very helpful initially. There are some strange interviewers, so please be careful. If you know any questions in advance, they will try to stump you with a hard question. I encountered an interviewer like that. When I answered his
The process was a bit slow, but overall, both the recruiter and interviewers were professional and nice. The questions were also very practical. There were five rounds of interviews over two days, covering programming, algorithms, and system design.
A pretty standard interview process. Based on employee recommendations, Google waived the phone interview. There were five 1:1 interviews: coding, algorithms, and system design. No puzzles or trick questions were asked. I spoke with two teams and
The recruiter was very helpful initially. There are some strange interviewers, so please be careful. If you know any questions in advance, they will try to stump you with a hard question. I encountered an interviewer like that. When I answered his