If you got to work for someone else, this is the one
If you got to work for someone else, this is the one
Virtually unlimited resources, many companies under the same umbrella, and the possibility to work on a very wide range of fields.
You'll be a drop in an ocean of many other very smart people. Which isn't all that bad, but if you are looking for front-lines action, you may be disappointed.
Listen to what people say. There's an increasing risk of management getting too detached from the "common folk" or the everyday engineers.
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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.
Senior Software Engineer
The conversation felt very straightforward and almost AI-driven, lacking a human touch. It wasn't relevant to the positions applied for and seemed outdated. It was not a pleasant conversation; the interviewer was more interested in finding a flaw in
Senior Software Engineer
It was difficult to understand the role I was interviewing for. I could not talk to potential members of the group, and how I would be slotted into a group was not clear.
Senior Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2017I 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.
Senior Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesApril 24, 2025The conversation felt very straightforward and almost AI-driven, lacking a human touch. It wasn't relevant to the positions applied for and seemed outdated. It was not a pleasant conversation; the interviewer was more interested in finding a flaw in
Senior Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2011It was difficult to understand the role I was interviewing for. I could not talk to potential members of the group, and how I would be slotted into a group was not clear.
