The shine is off this company
The shine is off this company
Opportunity to have a lot of impact, if you're on the right team. Competent peers (I have not encountered a single incompetent peer at Google).
These days, politics and fights over control of the narrative, rather than technical competence, are the key skill to get ahead. This formerly great engineering company has become a company of politicians and McKinsey-ites.
Fire Sundar.
Revert to a peer-and-report-driven performance review, rather than the top-down power game of GRAD.
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The process is pretty well known. It includes an assessment test, followed by a behavioral interview, and then an on-site stage with five interviews. Three of these are technical, one is behavioral, and the last is a lunch with a senior at Google.
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My recruiter called me about an interview next week. She didn't call me back the first time. The second time, she said she could arrange an interview for next week. I was so afraid of losing the opportunity that I agreed to take it, even though I did
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Munich, Bavaria, GermanyDecember 1, 2019The process is pretty well known. It includes an assessment test, followed by a behavioral interview, and then an on-site stage with five interviews. Three of these are technical, one is behavioral, and the last is a lunch with a senior at Google.
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San Francisco, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2024It was good. The lady was very nice and gave me a cup of coffee. They asked me to invert a binary tree. They were so impressed they offered me a job two weeks later. I declined the position so I can work for my dad in my home country selling bottl
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San Jose, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2013My recruiter called me about an interview next week. She didn't call me back the first time. The second time, she said she could arrange an interview for next week. I was so afraid of losing the opportunity that I agreed to take it, even though I did
