Incredible scale, if impact on people is important to you.
Generally, great team members. Possible to find mentorship, even at more senior levels. Good benefits.
Re-orgs, new directors every year or so. It causes a lot of pivots to long-term projects.
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
Extremely unimpressed with Google, in every area I had expected a lot better. * Inattentive, lazy recruiters. * Incorrect prep and advice videos. * Poor interviewers. * Incredibly slow process for no reason (I knew this going in). The inter
They were very prepared to ask thought-provoking questions in both the phone and in-person interviews. Writing code on a whiteboard during the in-person interview is a key part of their process. The people were friendly, very professional, and wast
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
Extremely unimpressed with Google, in every area I had expected a lot better. * Inattentive, lazy recruiters. * Incorrect prep and advice videos. * Poor interviewers. * Incredibly slow process for no reason (I knew this going in). The inter
They were very prepared to ask thought-provoking questions in both the phone and in-person interviews. Writing code on a whiteboard during the in-person interview is a key part of their process. The people were friendly, very professional, and wast