Colleagues are as a rule friendly, helpful, and intelligent.
Easy transfers between projects and organizations, with many different and interesting problems to work on.
Great office benefits. Global presence makes travel and work easy. Good pay.
Great work-life balance if you want it. There is little danger in getting managed out. Good (but slow) advancement opportunities as an IC or EM if you want to work hard.
So much process and bureaucracy. Most of it is well-intentioned, but project planning and launch is very CYA.
Slow-moving by default. Everyone is capable of being very productive, but moving fast doesn't seem rewarded much more than moving slow.
Giant company, no individual project gets much exec attention or moves the needle much on P&L.
Admit to yourselves and employees that Google is not the fun-loving, fast-moving startup it used to be.
I was sent an online "Hiring Assessment". This is a 30-minute questionnaire comprised of several cross-checked "Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | Strongly Agree" questions asking about your work beliefs and past behaviors.
I applied online, and a recruiter reached out the very next day to set up the initial call. I chatted with a couple of recruiters, who then set up the virtual onsite interview based on my availability. They shared a lot of information about what to
The process was split into two days. There were 5 interviews in total: * 3 virtual interviews one day * 2 the next day The interviews focused on coding algorithms for 4 of them, and Googlyness for the remaining one. The entire loop was conduc
I was sent an online "Hiring Assessment". This is a 30-minute questionnaire comprised of several cross-checked "Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | Strongly Agree" questions asking about your work beliefs and past behaviors.
I applied online, and a recruiter reached out the very next day to set up the initial call. I chatted with a couple of recruiters, who then set up the virtual onsite interview based on my availability. They shared a lot of information about what to
The process was split into two days. There were 5 interviews in total: * 3 virtual interviews one day * 2 the next day The interviews focused on coding algorithms for 4 of them, and Googlyness for the remaining one. The entire loop was conduc