Great, highly knowledgeable people that are eager to learn and collaborate on interesting problems.
A blameless culture is also great. When something goes wrong, it’s about "how can we make this better or prevent it?" versus wasting time assigning blame. Tasks to fill gaps get surfaced quickly and assigned to people/teams where they make the most sense.
This usually happens before things go wrong, though.
Things aren’t as great as they used to be in terms of flexibility and peace of mind, though leaps and bounds still better than other players I’ve been.
Don’t let the culture devolve into nothing. It’s one of the core pillars that makes working at Google special.
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.
I went onsite with the Mountain View campus for a position in the Google Cloud division. A total of five interviewers participated. It's unclear how they selected the interviewers; in the end, three interviewers asked distributed systems questions.
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.
I went onsite with the Mountain View campus for a position in the Google Cloud division. A total of five interviewers participated. It's unclear how they selected the interviewers; in the end, three interviewers asked distributed systems questions.
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